The 2022 SOMERSET CIBAs Short List for Literary and Contemporary Fiction

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. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Somerset Literary and Contemporary Fiction Long List to the 2022 Somerset Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Somerset Semi-Finalist. The Semi-Finalists will compete for the Finalist positions. Winners will be selected from the Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2022 Somerset Book Awards novel competition for Literary and Contemporary Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

• Conon Parks – Everything That Was
• Michael Richard – Chosen’s Beautiful Heart
• Karla Huebner – In Search of the Magic Theater
• Maggie St. Claire – Into the Wind
• Vee Kumari – ANKANAM
• Linda Moore – Attribution
• Kathleen Stone – Tell Me You Love Me
• Datta Groover – The Reluctant Visionary
• Ja-ne de Abreu – The Energy Inside Valsin’s Choices
• Rebecca Miller – Touch
• Grace Marcus – Visible Signs
• Robert Tucker – The Discontent of Mary Wenger, Paper Dolls, Book 1
• Patricia Sands – The Secrets We Hide
• Meredith Berlin – Friends with Issues
• Frances Howard-Snyder – A Willow Cabin at Your Gate
• Julia Tvardovskaya – Identifiable
• David B. Seaburn – Give Me Shelter
• Michael Chatlien – Northern Lights
• Julia Brewer Daily – The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch: A Modern Ranch with an Ancient Secret
• Ellen Sherman – Into the Attic
• Fran Hawthorne – I Meant to Tell You
• Antonia Gavrihel – Back to One: Take 2 Ambient Light
• Karen Heenan – Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression
• Jeff Hartman – The End Of The War
• Leslie Kain – Secrets In The Mirror
• Patricia Averbach – Dreams of Drowning
• Tom Stewart – Immortal North
• Jeffrey Dale Lofton – Red Clay Suzie
• Brenda Stanley – The Still Small Voice
• John Hansen – Hired Hand
• Jo Deniau – Stiff Hearts
• Drema Drudge – Southern-Fried Woolf
• Dianne C. Braley – The Silence in the Sound
• Maggie Smith – Truth and Other Lies
• Susan Lynn Solomon – Raising Kane
• Barbara Francesca Murphy – Lucina’s Letters
• Lynn Byk – The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch
• Peter McDade – Songs By Honeybird
• Edward Pontacoloni – The Rookery
• Lee Bukowski – A Week of Warm Weather
• Betsy Withycombe – The Murder of Sarah Grosvenor
• Gloria Mattioni – California Sister
• Morgan Sloan – Scars and Honey
  
• Harriet Cannon – Exiled South
• Ann Marie Stewart – Out of the Water

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 Somerset Awards is Lies in Bone by Natalie Symons

Click here to see the 2021 Somerset Book Award Winners for Literary and Contemporary Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Somerset Book Awards for Literary and Contemporary Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2022 Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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