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The OZMA Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of  Fantasy Fiction. The OZMA Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The #CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards discovers the best books featuring magic, the supernatural, imaginary worlds, fantastical creatures, legendary beasts, mythical beings, or inventions of fancy that author imaginations dream up without a basis in science as we know it. Epic Fantasy, High Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Dragons, Unicorns, Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Gaslight Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, or other out of this world fiction, they will be put to the test and the best selected as winners of the prestigious CIBAs.

The following fantasy fiction works have advanced from the Short List to the Semi-Finalists of the 2020 OZMA Book Awards:

  • Susannah Dawn – Battle for the Armor of God    
  • Christopher Russell – Divinity’s Twilight: Rebirth
  • T. Cook – Shin
  • David Fitz-Gerald – She Sees Ghosts: The Story of a Woman Who Rescues Lost Souls
  • Michelle Rene – The Canyon Cathedral: The Witches of Tanglewood, Book Two 
  • Robert C. Feol – A Journey to Mouseling Hollow
  • MG Wilson and Phil Elmore – Ninja Girl Adventures
  • J. Nell Brown – Orphan Tree and the Vanishing Skeleton Key
  • Gordon Preston – Zendragon
  • H.J. Ramsay – Ever Alice
  • Jeny Heckman – The Warrior’s Progeny
  • Sandra A. Hunter – Daughter of Earth & Fire, The Fledgling    
  • Jacob Andrew Emrey – Inferno Dawn
  • LaVerne Thompson – Wild Child
  • D.L. Jennings – Awaken the Three
  • Derrick Smythe – The Other Magic
  • KC Cowan & Sara Cole – Everfire
  • Dr. Anay Ayarovu – STAZR The World Of Z: The Dawn Of Athir
  • Alison Levy – Gatekeeper: Book One in the Daemon Collecting Series
  • Glenn Searfoss – Cycles of Norse Mythology: Tales of the AEsir Gods
  • T. K. Thorne – House of Rose
  • Lee Hunt – Dynamicist

Good Luck to All as your works compete for the FINALIST rounds of the CIBAs!

We will announce the Finalists of the 2020 CIBA divisions April 22, 23, & 24, 2021.

The 22 divisions of the 2020 CIBAs’ Grand Prize Winners and the Five First Place Category Position award winners will be announced at the April 25th, 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards Annual Awards Gala, which takes place at the Chanticleer Authors Conference that will be held in virtually Bellingham, Wash. 

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized each evening at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

 

 

We are now accepting entries into the 2021 OZMA Book Awards for Fantasy Fiction, a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Please click here for more information and to enter.