The Dante Rossetti Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Young Adult Fiction. The Dante Rossetti Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (The CIBAs).

Named in honor of the British poet & painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti who founded the Pre-Ralphaelite Brotherhood in 1848.

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring stories of all shapes and sizes written to an audience between the ages of about twelve to eighteen (imaginary or real). Science Fiction, Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery, Paranormal, Historical, Romance, and Literary, we will put them to the test and choose the best Young Adult Books among them for the winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction. For Middle Grade Fiction check out our Gertrude Warner Awards and for Children’s Literature see our Little Peeps Awards.

These titles have moved forward from the 2024 DANTE ROSSETTI Long List to the 2024 Dante Rossetti Book Awards SHORT LIST. These entries are now in competition for the 2024 Dante Rossetti Semi-Finalists. 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. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Dante Rossetti Book Awards novel competition for Young Adult Fiction!

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

• Pam Binder – Raven Spirit
• Mark Kraver – The Willow
• John Be Lane – The Future Lies a Post-Dystopian Romantic Thriller
• Valerie Biel – Beyond the Cemetery Gate the Secret Keeper’s Daughter
• C.W. James – The Tomb of Ptahmes
• Miki Mitayn – Heated Earth Aedgar Moves in
• C.H. Brown – The Appearance of Power
• Sally DiPaula – Captain Moretti’s Daughter
• Kelly Vincent – Ugliest
• Jeff Hartman – How To Win The Nobel Peace Prize
• John Daze – Rogues of the Crosslands Azorias Blade
• Lenore Borja – The Lost Portal (Mirror Realm Series Book II)
• C.E. Brown – Seeing Gray
• V. Romas Burton – Justified
• Kathryn Silver-Hajo – Roots of the Banyan Tree
• Michael J Bowler – Forever Boy
• Glen Dahlgren – The Realm of Gods (The Chronicles of Chaos Book Three)
• Leslea Wahl – Charting the Course
• Jonathan Floyd – Lost on the Edge of Eternity
• Eileen Charbonneau and Jude Pittman – Spectral Evidence
• M. Ch. Landa – Vandella: Resilience
• Lynn Yvonne Moon – Journey’s Travels – Mirrors
• D. K. Yamashiro – Anela’s Club
• J.A. Nielsen – The Winter Heir (Fractured Kingdoms, Book 2)
• John Middleton – The Pool of Initiation
• E. L. Werbitsky – The Marsh Keeper
• Mark Sabbas – The Monarchs
• Rebecca A. Nagy – Phoenix Rising: Initiation
• Felicia Farber – Fake Out
  
• Rae St. Clair Bridgman – Fish & Sphinx
• Maggie Hill- Sunday Money
  
• Joshua Witmyer – The Death of Capitalism
• Vito DiBarone – Botheration: Part One: The Missing Link
• Vito DiBarone – Botheration: Part Three: Epiphany
• Maryanne Melloan Woods – Lazarus

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Congratulations once more to the 2023 Dante Rossetti Grand Prize Winner

Sour Flower

By Maryanne Melloan Woods

Click here to see the full list of 2023 Dante Rossetti Book Award Winners for Young Adult Fiction.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult 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!