Chanticleer Book Reviews

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.

Join us to celebrate the inaugural Cover Design First Place and Grand Prize Winners! It is a huge honor to support this brand new CCDA division as part of the CIBAs!

Thank you for joining us to celebrate the inaugural Cover Design First Place Winners! Here are the Cover Design First Place Winners for Non-Fiction!

The Chanticleer Cover Design Awards celebrates covers that truly catch the eye! Don't let your book cover miss out on the chance to be recognized for its engaging quality! Divisions in Fiction and Non-Fiction.

The Book Series Awards can now celebrate 5 years of Grand Prize Winners! Congratulations to these amazing authors and their work!

The 2025 Global Thriller Awards for High Stakes Suspense Hall of Fame is here! Join us in celebrating these excellent Grand Prize Winners!

When one is never enough, check out the Book Series Awards! These are the first books for the 2024 First Place Winners! Start adding them to your TBR!

These stories are life or death where the world is at stake! Revisit the 2024 Global Thriller First Place Award Winners today for the best in High Stakes Suspense!

The Mystery and Mayhem Hall of Fame is here! We're pleased to celebrate these M&M Grand Prize Winners for Cozy and Not-so-Cozy Mysteries!

The 2024 M&M First Place Roundup for Cozy and Not-so-Cozy Mysteries is here! Congratulations again to these winners from the 2024 CIBAs!

Ten Days remain for your speculative fiction novel to be discovered in some of the most popular Book Award Divisions we offer! Does your book have what it takes to succeed?

Watch out! The Clue Awards Hall of Fame for Suspense Thrillers, including Fiction & True Crime are here! You'll want to leave the lights on when you read these!

Chanticleer keynote Kim Hornsby went from CIBA Award winner to produced screenwriter. Join her Greece retreat to turn your book into a screenplay!

Thank you for joining us to celebrate the 2024 Clue First Place Winners! Here are the Clue First Place Winners for Thriller/Suspense, just as we close the Clue Awards for 2025

Discover the Shelley Awards Hall of Fame showcasing the best paranormal fiction Grand Prize Winners, from time-traveling warlocks to supernatural romance.

Newly renamed, these are the 2024 Shelley First Place Award Winners for Paranormal Fiction! Congratulations once more to these wonderful authors!

The Ozma Hall of Fame for Fantasy Fiction is here! Celebrate these incredible and varied Grand Prize Authors, and discover a new world today!

Chanticleer Interviews Author Kathryn Caraway, the 2024 CIBA Grand Prize in the Journey Division for her true crime story Unfollow Me.

The Fantasy Round Up for the 2024 Ozma Awards is here! Dive into new worlds beyond imagining with these great stories!

The Cygnus Awards Hall of Fame is here! Join us in celebrating the most recent Chanticleer Sci-Fi Grand Prize Winners and all things Speculative Fiction!

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We're delighted to celebrate the 2024 Cygnus First Place Winners! If you love sci-fi, you need to add these books to your TBR!

To celebrate Memorial Day, we've collected a list of quotes from our founding documents to recognize the democratic values our military defends throughout the year.

This Mother's Day let's explore common archetypes of mothers in literature and consider all the ways they are depicted in some of our favorite novels!