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Nellie Bly Awards

The Nellie Bly Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Long Form Journalistic and Investigative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Nellie Bly Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards  (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Social Science, Data Driven Reporting, Equality and Justice, Ethics, Human Rights, and Activists Groups. We will put books about true and inspiring stories to the test and choose the best among them. See our full list of Non-Fiction Divisions here. 

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2021 Nellie Bly Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Nellie Bly Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Short List. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC22).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 24 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, June 25th, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These titles are in the running for the FINALISTS position of the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards  for Journalistic Non-Fiction!

Short Listed for the 2021 CIBAs

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

  • Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
  • Betty Jean Craige – Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo
  • Burl Harmon – Combat Missions
  • Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
  • Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
  • Jim Lichtman – Trust and Confidence
  • Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
  • Martha Bolton with Linda Hope – Dear Bob… Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of WW2
  • Daisy Hernandez – The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease
  • Nicole Evelina – America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor
  • Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
  • Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
  • Abe Streep – Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana
  • Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D. – Advancing the Good Society:  Real Advocacy Journalism in Action
  • Cheng Wang – From Tea to Coffee
  • Grover Nicodemus Street RN, Sandra de Abreu Guidry-Street MD, & Ja-ne de Abreu – Chasing the Surge: Life as a Travel Nurse in a Global Pandemic
  • Hafiz Sheriff – History As I see It And Others

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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 NELLIE BLY Awards is William “Mecca” Elmore & Susan Simone for Prison from the Inside Out: One Man’s Journey from a Life Sentence to Freedom

Cover of Prison from the Inside out by William "Mecca" Elmore & Susan Simone

Blue and Gold Badge for the Nellie Bly 2020 Grand Prize Winner William "Mecca" Elmore  & Susan Simone PRISON FROM the INSIDE OUT

Click here to see the 2020 Nellie Bly Book Award Winners for Journalistic Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2022 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2023. 

Please click here for more information.

See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

Winners will be announced at the 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

VIRTUAL and IN-Person –  June 23 – 26, 2022! Register Today!

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