The Short Story Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in Short Stories, Essays, Novelettes, Novellas, Short Story Collections and Anthologies. The Short Story Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards program.

The Chanticleer International Book Awards program discovers today’s best works. The Short Stories Awards discovers the Best New Shorts in Fiction and Narrative Non-Fiction. 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 the 2023 Long List to the Shorts Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2023 Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC24). 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 20th, 2024 at the Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

Note: These are for Short Stories and Essays. There is a separate post for Novellas, Collections, and longer Essays

These titles are in the running to be Semi-Finalists of the 2023 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Collections and Anthologies!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

Catherine Brown – The Heart of Kublai Khan’s Menagerie Keeper
Catherine Brown – Finding Namaste
Luray Embers – No Cat Is An Island
A.J. McCarthy – A Rock
A.J. McCarthy – The Strike
Brian Feutz – Pity the Peasants
Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury: A Jane Austenesque short story
Brittany Eden – Candles in the Dark from Fantasea
Logan D. Irons – Bridge of Kings
Sallie Barr Palmer – Conversation with a Vampire
Susan Lynn Solomon – Sabbath
Marie Sutro – Son Down
Larry Sherrer – Spirit Letters
PJ Devlin – Sea Purses
Morgan Sloan – The Awakening
Sharon E. Cathcart – Rose in Bloom
S.M. Stevens – The Wallace House of Pain
Robert S Phillips – The Great River
George T. Arnold – Confession of a “Grammarholic”

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

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 SHORTS Awards is:

God, the Mafia, My Dad, and Me

by Lori Lee Peters

The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 Short Story Awards is:

Old Man Baseball

by Mike Murphey

See the full list of Shorts 2022 Winners here (Collections)

and here (Short Stories and Essays)

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Shorts Book Awards for Romance Fiction. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

The Chanticleer Authors Conference

Featuring authors like D.D. Black, book doctor Christine Fairchild, and Mark Berridge, our twelfth annual conference is shaping up to be excellent! You won’t want to miss out on the best tips around the business of being an author!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887) has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.