Satire & Humor Book Awards | Chanticleer International Book Awards

Satire and Humor Novel Book Awards ~2025
The search for 2024's best Satirical and Humor Novels

Deadline November 30, 2025

Chanticleer International Book Awards (the CIBAs) is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, and allegory themes. The CIBA judges are seeking emerging talent and outstanding new works to select as the winners of the Satire and Allegory Fiction Book Awards.

Samuel Clemens (w/a Mark Twain) visited and presented in Bellingham, Washington August 14 - 15, 1895 as part of his worldwide lecture tour. An estimated 700 townspeople would attend his presentation. His previous stop was in Seattle on August 13th. Next stop on his tour was Vancouver, British Columbia. After his Vancouver performance he sailed on to Australia. The last stop of the tour of 120 performances was Capetown, South Africa on July 15, 1896. He was 60 years old at the time

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together." Mark Twain

Twain's prediction was accurate; he died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910, in Stormfield,(Twain's mansion where he lived from 1908 until his death) one day after the comet's closest approach to Earth.

The Satire & Humor Fiction Awards Categories are:

• Satire
• Humor
• Political Ideology
• Parody
• Fantasy
• Allegory/Fable
• Alternative Histories - Non-SciFi

Examples:

The Hunger Games - (Allegory) This trilogy of Young Adult books (and now blockbuster movies) is an allegory for our obsession with reality television and how it numbs us to reality.

Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss - (Allegory) This story about a turtle who yearns for too much power is actually an allegory about Adolf Hitler and the evils of totalitarianism.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

SATIRE Examples:

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Prizes to be won:

ENTER TO WIN the 2025 CIBA Overall Grand Prize of $1,000 USD for Best Book

or the 2025 Satire & Allegory Fiction Book Awards Division Exclusive Chanticleer Book Review Package and Author Interview

Or the more than $30,000 in prizes, services, and awards for Finalists, Finalists, 1st Place Category Winners and Division Grand Prize Winners!

Enter to WIN the Satire & Allegory Fiction Book Awards Grand Prize!

The Finalists will be recognized on stage at the CIBA ceremony and will be eligible for prize packages & services, digital badges, etc.

• The Mark Twain Grand Prize Winner is named Chanticleer Reviews Best SATIRE Fiction Book of the Year, and goes on to compete for the Chanticleer Overall Grand Prize Best Book of the Year
• The Overall Grand Prize Winner is named Chanticleer Reviews Best Book of the Year, and awarded the $1000 prize
• All Winners receive a Chanticleer Prize Package which includes a digital badge, a ribbon and a whole assortment of goodies detailed below (winners outside the US pay a shipping & handling fee)

The entry fee is $99 for Non-Members and $75 for The Roost at Chanticleer members per entry per category.

Email Chanticleer@ChantiReviews.com for membership information or click here for more info about this exciting new Members-Only Community:

Currently accepting entries. Deadline: November 30, 2025

What are you waiting for? Enter today!

The 2023 Satire & Allegory Grand Prize Winner is Mike Murphey

Click here for the Full List of 2023 Humor and Satire Winners

The Chanticleer Prize Package includes:

• A Prize Ribbon to use in promotion at book signings and book festivals
• Digital Badges for display on your website or incorporation into book covers
• Book stickers to identify your print books to book store shoppers as they browse

In addition to all the ribbons and badges and cash awards we will be showering you with, you will also receive a powerful promotional boost from Chanticleer Reviews, with:

• Your name and book title announced on our high traffic website at the finalist stage, the category winner stage, the genre grand prize stage, and the overall grand prize stage, depending on how far you go in the competition
• Corresponding social media announcements of your contest advancements
• Corresponding newsletter announcements to our sizable email list
• Your winning title's review published in our Chanticleer Reviews Magazine
• Your book may also receive trade show representation as we show off our winners at conferences and trade shows across the US and Internationally. We like to show off our winners in as many ways as we can.
• Your book may also be seen and noticed by agents, publishers, Hollywood producers, and others within the publishing and entertainment industry who see our contests as a way to spot new and upcoming talent and original story ideas

Work submitted will be judged on the following criteria:

Eligibility Requirements:

• Novels may be Manuscripts, Self-published, Indie Published or Traditionally Published.
• E-pub accepted.
• All published novels must have ISBN/ASIN designation, manuscripts are not required to have this designation at the time of submission.
• Entries must be in the English language.
• No erotica. No graphic violence, please.
• Copyrighted works before Dec. 31, 2020 will be disqualified.
• Novels must be 50,000 plus words.
• You may enter in more than one category. However, each entry must be accompanied by the entry fee.
• You may enter more than one novel into a given contest.
• Default winners will not be declared. Contests are based on merit and writing craft.
• Digital Files must be submitted in PDF or Word DOC format.
• Fees and Digital File must be received before November 30, 2025 midnight.
• Please read our Terms and Conditions page aka The Fine Print. Prizes and Award Packages may change without notice.

Helpful Links

Announcement Schedule

Previous Winners:

Click here for a list of ALL previous CIBA winners organized by Year Click here for a list of ALL previous CIBA winners organized by Year

How The Contests Work

The Fine Print

If you have any questions or concerns, please email: info@ChantiReviews.com

Note: You will receive a confirmation email after you have uploaded your work and paid entrance fees through PayPal or Lightspeed. PayPal/Lightspeed also sends us your contact information. If we have any questions or concerns, we will contact you within 72 business hours of receiving entry(ies).

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