The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards (The CCDAs) for Non-Fiction recognizes artistic excellence across genre in great cover design. The CCDAs are a new Award Division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).
Our design is inspired by books designed by the incomparable Coraline Bickford-Smith. Her simple, beautiful, and evocative designs do so much to make the book work as a visual ambassador, capturing the essence of story and compelling potential readers to pick it up, click on it, or share it with others. A well-designed cover signals professionalism, sets expectations for your genre, and serves as a powerful marketing tool to stand out in both digital and physical spaces.
Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring clear genres, audience, time periods, typography, and longevity across genres of Non-Fiction.
These titles have moved forward in the first look rounds from all 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction entries to the 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 CCDA Non-Fiction Finalists List. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Short List 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.
These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS of the 2024 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards novel competition for Non-Fiction Books!
Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!
- Anne Gately – Sunburnt a Memoir of Sun Surf and Skin Cancer
- Judy Taylor – Magpie Times Marshmallow World
- Marianna Marlowe – Portrait of a Feminist a Memoir in Essays
- Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch Reared in the High Country
- Kim Sloan – Memoirs From the Frontlines Four States Two Years One Pandemic
- Meredith Wargo – Dawgs a True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them
- Karen Elizabeth Lee – The Village That Betrayed Its Children
- Kathryn Caraway – Unfollow Me
- Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark a Memoir
- Kathleen Watt – Rearranged an Opera Singers Facial Cancer and Life Transposed
- Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
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Who will be the First Grand Prize Winner for the Fiction CCDAs?
Stay Tuned to find out!
Click here to learn more about the Cover Design Awards.
We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards for Fiction.
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Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.
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