The Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 LARAMIE SEMI-FINALISTS to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards FINALISTS. FINALISTS will be 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. 

These titles are in the running for the FIRST PLACE AND GRAND PRIZE WINNERS of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

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

• Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
• Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
• David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
• Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
• Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
• David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
• Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
• Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
• Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
• Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
• Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
• Georgina Hogue – Cloud Cap
• John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
  
• Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
• C.M. Huddleston – Esther
• Karen Lynne Klink – At What Cost, Silence? Book 1 of The Texian Trilogy
• Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
• Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

The Last Man

By Thomas Goodman

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western 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!