The 2020 Finalists for the SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction CIBAs

The SOMERSET Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The Somerset Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring contemporary stories, literary themes, adventure, magical realism, or women and family themes. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. The best will advance. Which titles will be declared as winners of the prestigious Somerset Book Awards?

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORT LIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.  

These titles are in the running for the Finalist positions of the 2020 SOMERSET Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction. Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

• Sara Stamey – Pause
• Gregory Erich Phillips – A Season in Lights
• Candi Sary – Magdalena
• Kathleen Reid – Sunrise in Florence
• T P Graf – As the Daisies Bloom
• Katherine Johnson – Grit & Granite
• Jennifer Gold – Keep Me Afloat
• Catherine Hamilton – Victoria’s War
• John Danenbarger – Entanglement: Quantum and Otherwise
• Julie Weary – Knowing Marjorie Thane
• Kathleen M. Rodgers – The Flying Cutterbucks
• Abbe Rolnick – Founding Stones
• Liana Gardner – Speak No Evil
• Susan Wingate – How the Deer Moon Hungers
• Jessica O’Dwyer – Mother Mother
• Lainey Cameron – The Exit Strategy
• Judy Keeslar Santamaria – Jetty Cat Palace Cafe
• Joanne Kukanza Easley –Sweet Jane
• Barbara Linn Probst – Queen of the Owls
• Nancy H. Wynen – We Did What We Could

NOTE: Some titles have been transferred to the Mark Twain Book Awards for Satire, Allegory, Humor, and Alternative Histories (non-SciFi).

These titles are in the running for the First Place Category Winners of the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Fiction. 

The 2020 CIBA FINALISTS were announced at VCAC21 – April 21 – 24, 2021. 

The Somerset Book Awards 2020 First Place and Grand Prize Winner will be announced at the hybrid CIBA Ceremony that will take place on Saturday, June 5th, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether. More details will be posted in early May.  

Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Somerset Book Awards for Contemporary and Literary Fiction?

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