Western Pioneeer Civil War Fiction AwardThe Laramie Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Western, First Nations and Americana Fiction. The Laramie Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer Book Reviews is looking for the best books featuring Americana themes, First Nation stories, early North American History, cowboys & cowgirls in the Wild West, pioneering, and Civil War, and 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 LARAMIE entries to the 2024 Laramie Book Awards LONG LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Laramie 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.

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 Bellingham Yacht Club sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference

A Wreath with the words "CAC 2025" on it to celebrate the Chanticleer Author's Conference!

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2024 Laramie Book Awards novel competition for Western and Americana Fiction!

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

  • Robert Brighton – Winter in the High Sierra a Love Story
  • Susanna Lane – Enduring Promise
  • Linda Paul – The Last Gypsy Queen
  • Jeanne Gehret – Secrets To the Wind
  • Alice Vonkannon Hodapp – Heart’s Blood
  • Natalie Musgrave Dossett – Sarita
  • Kregg P.J. Jorgenson – 1886 the Last Campaign
  • David Fitz-Gerald – First Drive
  • Barry Robbins – Voices of the Civil War
  • Heidi M. Thomas – Goth-girl to Cowgirl
  • David Fitz-Gerald – A Grave Every Mile A Pioneer Western Adventure
  • Patricia Roberts Wright – A Siren Called Truth
  • Imogen Martin – Under A Gilded Sky
  • Jonita Mullins – The Tearful Trail
  • Linda Broday – Courting Miss Emma
  • Donald Willerton – Death in the Tallgrass
  • CK Van Dam – Medicine Creek Claim: On the Dakota Frontier
  • Woody Woodburn – The Butterfly Tree
  • Evelyn Fletcher Symes – Five Horse Winter
  • Brook Allen – West of Santillane
  • Sean James – The Vengeful Kind
  • John Hansen – Crazy Woman Creek
  • Heather Miller – Yellow Bird’s Song
  • M. B. Zucker – The Middle Generation: A Novel of John Quincy Adams and the Monroe Doctrine
  • Craig Hipkins – Bandy
  • John G. Russell, III – Four Corners But Verily Only Two Choices
  • Josie Olsvig – Freedom’s Tears The History of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina and Port Royal Sound
  • Charlie Steel – Tom Sharp: The Man and the Legend (A Novel)
  • Tim Piper – The Powell Expeditions
  • Paul Buchheit – 1871: Rivers on Fire
  • Lynn Downey – Dude or Die
  • Daniel Greene – Northern Shadows (Northern Wolf Series Book 5)

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize Winner

The Last Man

By Thomas Goodman

Blue and Gold badge recognizing The Last Man by Thomas Goodman for winning the 2023 Laramie Grand Prize

 

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Laramie Book Award Winners for Western Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Laramie Book Awards for Western Fiction.

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!