Chanticleer Book Reviews

The Harvey Chute Roundup celebrating our 2024 First Place Winners are here! Join us in cheering on these Business & Finance books for their win back in April!

The SEA Short Story Awards Long List for Novellas, Short Stories, and Essays are here! We are proud to have this rebranded division!

The Long List for the Fiction CCDAs is here! Did your cover make the first cut? Who will win in the newest of the CIBA Divisions?

We are delighted to spotlight these amazing business and finance book reviews for the Harvey Chute Spotlight! Got a great non-fiction book that can help others with money management? Enter by 9/30/25!

We're here to celebrate 5 years of excellence with the Grand Prize Winners of the Dante Rossetti Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction! Fill out your TBR today!

The world is at stake for the Global Thrillers Long List! Congratulations to all who made the list, and good luck as we move onto the next rounds of judging!

The M&M Awards for your Cozy and Not-so-Cozy Mysteries are here to cause a little mayhem with this impressive Long List of authors!

We have a special Round Up for the 2024 Dante Rossetti YA Award winners! Half of these are currently manuscripts, many of which are planning for rapid release!

The first of the 2025 Clue Long List authors for Thriller and Suspense are here! Congratulations to all and good luck as we move onto the Short List!

Has your YA book come of age? We're delighted to celebrate these excellent Young Adult books as we look toward the 2025 Dante Rossetti submission deadline!

The Gertrude Warner 2025 Hall of Fame is here! Check out these amazing Grand Prize Winners, including the newest member who will be promoted for years to come!

The Short List for the 2025 Shelley Awards are here! Enjoy these Paranormal reads as we stand on the precipice of spooky season!

Historical Fiction deadline alert! Only 5 days to submit to Chaucer, Goethe, Laramie & Hemingway Awards. Join our celebrated winners. Enter CIBAs now!

Middle grade books reach the readers of the future! We're celebrating these amazing Gertrude Warner First Place Winners that you'll be glad to have on your TBR!

The Short List for the 2025 Ozma Awards for Fantasy are here! The competition is already heating up, and we can't wait to see what's next!

The 2025 Gertrude Warner Spotlight is here! Join us in celebrating some of the most timeless classics that stay with readers the rest of their lives.

The Little Peeps Awards Hall of Fame showcases the best of the best of children's literature for the young readers in your life!

The 2025 Cygnus Short List is here! The competition this year is out of this world, and we can tell that several divisions are going to be down to the wire!

Ten Days remain to submit to these four Narrative Non-Fiction Divisions! The Nellie Bly, Hearten, Journey, and Military & Front Line Awards are ready to put the best of the best to the test. Can you make the cut?

We're here to celebrate the best of the 2024 Little Peeps Awards First Place Winners! Huge congrats to these authors of children's literature!

We're here to celebrate quality Children's Literature with the Little Peeps Awards! Do you have a kid's book that has what it takes? Enter today!

Celebrate our LARAMIE Grand Prize Winners, including one Overall Grand Prize Winner with the Laramie Hall of Fame! Find your next Americana or Western read today!

The best of the best for the Chaucer Awards are here! Join us in celebrating the 2025 Hall of Fame for Early Historical Fiction!

The Goethe Awards Hall of Fame is here! Join us in celebrating the best of the best for this Grand Prize Late Historical Fiction Books!

The Hemingway Awards for Wartime Fiction remember and contextualize our past so that a modern audience never forgets! These Hall of Fame Winners bring the history into the present!

The Hemingway Awards features 20th and 21st Century Wartime Fiction! We are honored to continue to promote these First Place Winners from the 2024 Awards!

Highlighting the First Place Winners of the 2024 Goethe Book Awards for Late Historical Fiction! Dive into the past and add these books to your TBR!

The Spotlight for the Hemingway Awards is here! These stories surround real life events of war in the 20th & 21st Century, remembering those who served.

Love late historical fiction? Check out our spotlight on the Goethe Awards to see some of the best books in the genre we've reviewed recently!

This is the 2025 Nellie Bly Hall of Fame! Congratulations to these incredible Grand Prize Winners, and thank you for your careful research and thought on these critical subjects!

Honor and Courage: Stories That Matter The Military and Front Line Awards celebrate the best Non-Fiction Submit by August 31st, 2025! The Military and Front Line Awards recognize the extraordinary courage, sacrifice, and dedication of those who serve on the front lines—whether in military combat, medical emergencies, or other critical service roles. These powerful narratives [...]

Here are the 2024 Nellie Bly First Place Winners! Join us in celebrating these excellent writers and their Non-Fiction works in Long Form Journalism!

The Military and Front Line round up is here! Join is in celebrating the 2024 first place winners that are overcoming adversity!

The 2025 Nellie Bly Spotlight is here celebrating some of the best longform journalism that's come through Chanticleer! It is our honor and delight to promote these works!

The Spotlight for the 2025 Military & Front Line Awards for Service to Other is here! Join us in celebrating these wonderful books that recognize the hard work we put into community!

We're celebrating those books that tug at your heartstrings with joy. The Hearten Hall of Fame for Inspiring Non-Fiction is here with your next great read!

Join us in recognizing these incredible experiences of resiliency and overcoming adversity with the Journey Book Awards Hall of Fame (CIBAs).

One week remains for 3 Divisions in the Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards! Your Mysteries and Thrillers all deserve the chance to be discovered! Don't miss out!

We're here to celebrate the First Place Winners in the 2024 Hearten Awards once more! These were the best of the best of Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction for 2024!

Here are the 2024 Journey First Place Winners! Join us in celebrating these excellent writers and their Non-Fiction works on Overcoming Adversity!

Ten Days remain as the July countdown continues! Will your work make it in the Series, SEA Shorts, or the Collections & Anthologies Awards? Put them to the test today!

The Hearten Awards deadline is coming up next month! Check out these great books we've reviewed recently, and find your the inspiration to start your own uplifting story!

The 2025 Journey Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity are accepting submissions! Join us in celebrating these recent stories we've reviewed, and see if your book has what it takes to be a winner!

And we're off! The first of the 2025 Ozma Awards lists for Fantasy Fiction is here! Good luck, and welcome to the Long List!

We're here with the Shelley Awards Long List for Paranormal Fiction! Well done to these authors for making the first cut, and good luck as the competition heats up!

The 2025 Shorts Awards Hall of Fame is here to celebrate the 2024 Grand Prize Winners joining the ranks of these esteemed works! These stories are brief and spectacular!

Only two weeks remain to submit to the 2025 Chanticleer Cover Design Awards! Does your book have a beautiful cover that deserves recognition?

The SEA Shorts First Place Round Up where we celebrate the 2024 winners once more are here! Congratulations to these wonderful authors!

The first list of the 2025 Chanticleer' Int'l Book Awards is here with the Cygnus Awards! A huge thank you to all of these authors for starting us off strong in the sci-fi genre!

The Collection & Anthology Awards first ever spotlight is here! We want your collection of short stories, poetry, essays, or any mix in-between! Plus, celebrating some great work that's already come our way!

The SEA Shorts Awards continues the tradition of recognizing the best of the best for Short Stories, Essays, and Collections. We take a moment to remember Sharon E. Anderson and all she gave to our writing community.