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The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Satire, Humor and Allegory Fiction. The Humor and Satire Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring  satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 HUMOR & SATIRE Fiction entries to the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Humor & Satire FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2024 Humor and Satire Book Awards novel competition for Humorous, Satirical and Allegorical Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

  • Ariel Peckel – Bertram’s Emporium of Things People Say
  • T.C. Morrison – Who Put the Bots in the Tort$?
  • John Arthur Robinson – More Later Lyle’s Letters From the University
  • Jeffrey Hope – Real Spies Don’t Use Rowboats
  • Nancy Mccabe – The Pamela Papers a Mostly E-Pistolary Story of Academic Pandemic Pandemonium
  • G.T. Walker – Curse of the Maestro and Other Stories
  • Kt Nalla – I Scream We All Scream
  • Lou Dischler – Mona’s Odyssey the Curious History of the Girl Who Destroyed Time
  • Neal Rabin – Flat
  • Bill Burkland – The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus
  • DM Baronov – Arthur an Actuarial Odyssey
  • Elizabeth Crowens – Bye Bye Blackbird
  • JP Rieger – Sunscreen Shower
  • Julie L. Brown – No One Will Save Us: A novel
  • Daniel Lawrence Abrams – Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don’t Get Hungry
  • D.C. Cameron – Dysfunctional Regulatory Bodies: Cowpies and Lies
  • Ben Gonshor – The Book of Izzy
  • Colette Tajemna – The Corpse in the Trash Room
  • John Young – Getting Huge
  • Chris Chan – Nessie’s Nemesis
  • Dan Kopcow – Madcap Serenade
  • Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Name Of The Rose
  • Patrick Finegan – Toys in Babylon
  • TK Sheffield – Model Wave
  • JP Rieger – The Big Comb Over

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Cygnus Grand Prize Winner

Quantum Consequence

By Mike Murphey

 

blue and gold badge recognizing Quantum Consequence by Mike Murphey for winning the 2023 Humor and Satire Grand Prize

Click here to see the full list of 2023 HUMOR & SATIRE Book Award Winners for Humorous Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Humor and Satire Book Awards for Humorous Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!