Short Stories, Novelettes, & Novellas Awards | Chanticleer International Book Awards

Essays, Short Stories, Novelettes, and Novellas

Chanticleer International Book Awards is seeking the Best New SHORTS in FICTION

We have five categories:

One solo entry per genre division is $45 (one Short Story, one Novelette, one Novella, or one Essay)

Collections - three categories - an additional $54 per collection ($99 per collection entry) :

• Short Story or Essay Collections and Anthologies: 2,500 - 10,000 for each short story with a maximum of 12 short stories per anthology collection.
• Novelette Collection: 10,000-20,000 average word count - Maximum of five novelettes per Collection per entry as (Omnibus collections -- approximately 120,000 total word count)
• Novella Collection: 20,000 - 50,000 word count (3 novellas per collection - approximate 150,000 total word count)

If you have a NOVEL SERIES and would like to enter it, please visit this web page for the CIBA Fiction Series Book Awards.

Submissions Deadline for the CRS - Chanticleer Reviews Shorts August 31, 2025

• All works will remain the property of the author and/or publisher. Period.
• No Flash Fiction, please.
• Essays and Works published on or before DEC 31, 2020 will be disqualified.
• Erotic works and extremely violent works will be disqualified if the judges deem them to be so.

You will be asked to upload your file (pdf, or Word file) when you enter the contest.

Prizes Awarded – to be determined – but they are always pretty awesome!

This is a new contest by popular request. We will continue to post updates here.

Please visit our Book Awards Details page and Terms and Conditions pages. By entering your work you are agreeing to the Terms and Conditions.

The 2023 Grand Prize for The Shorts Awards for Short Stories, Novellas, & Essays Collections is Mack Little

for

SHELTER IN A HOSTILE WORLD

See the full list of 2023 Shorts Awards Winners for Short Stories, Novellas, and Essays here

The 2023 Grand Prize for The Shorts Awards for Short Stories is Catherine Brown

for the HEART of KUBLAI KHAN'S MENAGERIE KEEPER

See the full list of 2023 Short Story Award Winners