The Shorts Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Short Stories. The Shorts Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

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 first look rounds from all 2024 SHORTS entries to the 2024 Shorts Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Shorts Award Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalists positions. FINALISTS will be chosen from the Semi-Finalists and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference, CAC25.

Please Note: There are 2 Shorts Awards Lists. This is for Long Form Content, Novellas, and Collections. The short form Shorts (100 pages or less) Long List will be posted separately.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA at the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Shorts Book Awards novel competition for Short Stories!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works!

Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi – Something About Lizzy
E.M. Schorb – Resurgius, a Sex Comedy
Cindy Ellen Hill – Leeds Point
Alice McVeigh – Pride and Perjury
Susan L Rae – Teaching Treason: A Gabby Baxter Mystery
Paper Lantern Writers – Beneath a Midwinter Moon
Peter Dingus – Worlds in Transition
J.R. Rice – Broken Pencils
Cynthia Geouge Davis – Catfish Corner
Mary Ann Bernal – AnaRose and Pharaoh’s Gold
Ebenezer Tabot Tabot – The Fruit Hunters and other Stories
Barbara Rein – Tales from the Eerie Canal: 22 Stories of the Delightfully Dark and Creepy
Deborah L. Staunton – Untethered
Jennifer Saviano – Joy Ride
Jennifer Anne Gordon – The Japanese Box and Other Stories
Anne B. Barriault – Tales from Naples and Sorrentine Stories
Derek Wachter – Solipsism
Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
Irena Smith – The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays

Congratulations once more to the 2023 Shorts Grand Prize Winner for Short Prose

Shelter In A Hostile World

By Mack Little

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Shorts Book Award Winners for Short Stories and Essays.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Shorts Book Awards for Short Stories, Essays, and Collections!

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 3 – 6, 2025! Save the Date for Registration!

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.

Join us for our annual conference as we enter our second decade and discover why!