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Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

The Journey Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Journey Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring true stories about adventures, life events, unique experiences, travel, personal journeys, global enlightenment, and more. 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 Long List Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Journey Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC23).

The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 25 CIBA divisions’ Finalists.

We will announce the 1st Place Category winners and Grand Prize Division Winners at the CIBAs Banquet and Ceremony on Saturday, April 29th, 2023 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALIST of the 2022 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the ShortList authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

  • Ian Gregory – On Insanity
  • Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
  • Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
  • Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
  • Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
  • Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
  • Nicholas Chittick – A PRISONER’S FIGHT: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
  • Linda Murphy Marshall – Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
  • Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
  • Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
  • Roselle Madrone, Robin Detmer, & Kris Dutter – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
  • D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
  • Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
  • Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
  • Katherine Caire – Accidental Sisters
  • Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
  • Lyn Barrett – Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory
  • Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
  • Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
  • M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
  • Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
  • Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
  • Stuart Nagero – Truth is Indestructible
  • Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
  • Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
  • Jackie Carol Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
  • Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
  • Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
  • Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
  • Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
  • Melissa Harris – One Pound, Twelve Ounces
  • Denise Collins – What Happened to John

Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 JOURNEY Awards is:

Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

Andrea Wilson Woods

The 2022 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC23 on April 29, 2023. Save the date for CAC23, scheduled April 27-30, 2023, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

Submissions for the 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

Don’t delay! Enter today! 

IN-Person – April 27-30, 2023! Register Today!

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A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23