The Goethe Book Awards recognize emerging new talent in post-1750s Historical Fiction. The Goethe Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

The Goethe Book Awards competition is named for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who was born at the dawn of the new era of enlightenment on August 28, 1749.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Late Period Historical Fiction. Regency, Victorian,18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, World and other wars, history of non-western cultures, set after the 1750s, we will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 Goethe Book Awards LONG LIST to the SHORT LIST and have now progressed to the 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS.  

The 2020 Semi-Finalists for the Goethe Book Awards

• James Hockenberry – Send The Word
• Helena P. Schrader – Where Eagles Never Flew: A Battle of Britain Novel
• Conor Bender – Jubilee
• Linda Ulleseit – The Aloha Spirit
• Eileen O’Finlan – Erin’s Children
• Jon Duncan – Heart of the Few
• Grahame Shannon – Bay of Devils
• Leslie K. Barry – Newark Minutemen
• Richard Alan Schwartz – Wind Chimes, War and Consequence A Novel of the Vietnam War Era
• Kari Bovee – Folly at the Fair
• Betty Bolte – Becoming Lady Washington
• Kit Sergeant – The Spark of Resistance: Women Spies in WWII
• Jomo Merritt – Sons of a Mauffen King
• J.L.Oakley – The Quisling Factor
• Brigitte Goldstein – Babylon Laid Waste-A Journey in the Twilight of the Idols
• D.V Chernov – Commissar
• Gail Noble-Sanderson – The Lavender Bees of Meuse 
• Michelle Cameron – Beyond the Ghetto Gates
• Kathryn Gauci – The Poseidon Network
• Dorothea Hubble Bonneau – Once in a Blood Moon
• Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could
• Pamela Jonas – For Love of Family: A Slovak Immigrant Novel
• John Hansen – Secrets of the Gros Ventre
• Donna Scott – The London Monster
• Jerena Tobiasen – The Crest, Book I of The Prophecy
• Jule Selbo – Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
• Liza Nash Taylor – Etiquette For Runaways- A Novel
• Theo Czuk – Hastings Street: Boulevard of Blues
  
• Sandra Perez Gluschankoff – Thorns for Raisel
• Ben Wyckoff Shore – Terribilita
• Carmela Cattuti – Between the Cracks: one woman’s journey from Sicily to America
• Lucinda Brant – Deadly Kin: A Georgian Historical Mystery
• Wendy Long Stanley – The Power to Deny
• David Selcer – The Old Stories, a.k.a Da Alt Geshikhtem
• Pyram King – Destiny’s War – Part 1: Saladin’s Secret

These titles are in the running for the Finalists of the 2020 Goethe  Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. 

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the Finalists positions, and then all Finalists will be announced at the VCAC21 ceremonies.

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. 

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

The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings 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.

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We are now accepting submissions into the 2021 Goethe Book Awards for post-1750s Historical Fiction. The deadline for submissions is July 30, 2020. The  2021 winners will be announced in April 2022.