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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 the 2022 Nellie Bly Non-Fiction Short List to the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Awards 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 First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Awards  for Journalistic Non-Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

  • Susan Lehmann – The Execution of Robert Butts
  • Steven W. Thrasher – The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
  • Brandi Collins-Dexter – Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political future
  • Rita Katz – Saints and Soldiers
  • Nicholas Chittick – A Prisoner’s Fight: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
  • Lana Melman – Artists Under Fire: The BDS War against Celebrities, Jews, and Israel
  • Joshua Frank – Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
  • Jonathan Geoffrey Dean – Salt & Light; The Complete Jesus
  • Paul Pringle – Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
  • Lyndsie Bourgon – Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
  • Jeff Kavanaugh and Corey Glickman – Practical Sustainability: Circular Commerce, Smarter Spaces and Happier Humans
  • Janice S. Ellis – USING MY WORD POWER: Advocating for a More Civilized Society, Book III in the Real Advocacy Journalism® series

Blue and Gold badge for the Finalists of the Nellie Bly journalistic non fiction awards

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the 2021 NELLIE BLY Awards is Nicole Evelina for America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor

America's Forgotten Suffragists Virginia and Francis Minor Cover

Gold and Blue Badge for the Nellie Bly Awards Grand Prize Winner Nicole Evelina's book The Forgotten Suffragists

Click here to see the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Award Winners for Journalistic Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024. 

Please click here for more information.

See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

Winners will be announced at the 2022 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2023 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

April 27 – 30, 2023! Register Today!

Seating is Limited. The esteemed WRITER Magazine (founded in 1887)  has repeatedly recognized the Chanticleer Authors Conference as one of the best conferences to attend and participate in for North America.

Join us for our 11th annual conference and discover why!

A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23