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The 2022 NELLIE BLY CIBAs Finalists for Journalistic Non-Fiction
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
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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2021 NELLIE BLY Awards is Nicole Evelina for America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor

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!
March 9, 2023
Chanticleer to Exhibit at AWP Convention in Seattle this Week! – Kiffer Brown
AWP Conference

(really, a convention)

March 8 – 11, 2023, Seattle Convention Center

Photo Courtesy of AWP (awp.org)

AWP, aka the Association of Writers & Writers Programs, conference is held this year at the Seattle Convention Center. The AWP conference alternates between the East Coast, Mid-West, and the West Coast. Whenever it is held in Seattle or in the Pacific Northwest, you can count on us participating! We load up the car with the booth and books of Chanticleerians (to display) and off we go!

You will find us at Booth 210. The convention hosts approximately one thousand exhibitor booths and tables. That is a LOT of exhibitors!

The exhibit floor is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Meanwhile there are plenty of break-out sessions (perhaps a thousand or so) to choose from to attend. Many of them are quite esoteric such as:

So, one could say that it is quite the “literary conference.” Many universities are present trying to lure new students into their MFA or MLA programs. Bellingham’s own Western Washington University will be there along with University of Washington. Also, the classic colleges are also represented such as Sarah Lawrence College.

We exhibit at AWP because 1) we are proud members of the venerable organization, 2) Our Chanticleer Review magazine is in the company of others such as the Harvard Review, The Chestnut Review, Prairie Schooner, and the American Literary Review.

And then there are the quirky literary magazines that make the AWP scene so wonderful: Bullsh*t Lit, Door is A Jar Literary Magazine, and Typewriter Tarot to name a few.

Many small presses are also represented.

Registration?
- Saturday is the Book Fair Day when AWP lowers the registration fee to $25 for that day only.
- Seniors (65 and Up) can register onsite for $175
- Student Registration is $150 on site (with ID)
- AWP Members Registration is $435
- Non-Member Registration is $540
- Individual Membership is $75 per year.
- Our Membership to AWP is $225 per year.
No food or drink is included. There are vendors in the convention center.

But back to us Chanticleerians!

Toni Ann Johnson will present Thursday at 1:45 – 3 p..m. Rooms 343 and 344 Summit.

Minding the Gaps and Mining Landscape in Linked Short Story Collections (Ramona Reeves, Leslie Pietrzyk, Camille Acker, Rion Amilcar Scott, Toni Ann Johnson)

Linked short story collections have become more popular, perhaps in part because of their hybrid nature. They can employ recurring themes, characters, and settings to situate readers in worlds that move beyond the borders of many short stories while stopping short of the breadth and propulsion of a novel. Minding the gaps, or the spaces, is key in writing linked story collections. How does space function between and within linked collections, and what stories does one choose to tell and why?

Author Signings at the Chanticleer Booth 210 by CIBA Award Winning Authors
- Janet Oakley, Friday 2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
- Beth Bacon, Friday 3 p.m. -3:30 p.m.
- Marian Exall, Saturday noon – 12:30 p.m.
If you are attending AWP 23, please do stop by our booth and say Hi! to David Beaumier, Sharon Anderson, and me (Kiffer Brown).

We’d love to see you!

Meanwhile, don’t forget to register for CAC23!

It is coming up soon! April 27 – 30, 2023 at the Hotel Bellwether
March 8, 2023
ISOLATED DOMAIN by Tyler Drinkard – Sci-fi, Dystopian, Action & Adventure

Harry Hardacre, better known as Hare to his few friends, hunts for a score big enough to lift him out of poverty, in Isolated Domain by Tyler Drinkard.

Hare hopes to leave his disreputable business contacts and desperate neighbors behind in the decaying slum known as the Conurb. He yearns for the bright lights of the Central City, where the streets are paved with the possibility of high-paying jobs, and more importantly, highly skilled doctors who can replace his broken-down prosthetic leg and free him from its pain.

But every resident of the Conurb shares his hope, always just one great scheme away from exactly the same dream – and they’re always disappointed when they wake up to grind away another day in the dark and grime.

Hare’s score turns into his worst nightmare, as his partner disappears with the seed for their new “business” while setting the local law on Hare’s trail.

Fleeing from the relatively safe, if downtrodden, Conurb, Hare struggles through a hellish dystopia with no end of novel threats. From endless deserts to carnivorous plant life and cannibal bikers, Hare’s trail ends in a terrible truth that is determined to use him for its own ends – even if it ends him.

Isolated Domain begins as a pulse-pounding wild ride of a caper story, as Hare and his best friend Chunk hunt for that one big score. But their dream takes them to the brink of dissolution and destruction. The story doesn’t relent, each dark turn leading to one darker yet – over and over, in myriad visions of a dystopian future.

Hare will compel readers to follow his journey and empathize with him throughout his tribulations.

His world may be vastly different from the reader’s, but his goals and his dreams still feel familiar. He wants a better life but fears it will only get worse. His descent into pain and struggle lands with a heavy emotional impact. Hare’s quest for that big score toys with his hope and refuses to fulfill it. Anyone searching for a light at the end of the tunnel for Hare and his world may close the book feeling a bit depressed.

Readers looking for an odyssey of misfortune will find Hare an engaging and (mostly) good man as he tries to navigate the layers of chaos and despair. His story finishes with a twist that will leave those readers in a state of dark astonishment.

March 8, 2023
The 2022 I&I CIBAs Semi-Finalists for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction
The I & I Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Instruction and Insight non-fiction that are self-help, how-to, guides, or explanatory. In non-fiction works, the author assumes responsibility (in good faith) for the truth, accuracy, people, places, or information presented. The I & I Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best Instruction and Insight books featuring How-To, Guidance, Travel Guides, Cookbooks, Self-Help, 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 judging rounds from the 2022 I&I Non-Fiction Short List to the 2022 I&I Book Awards Semi-Finals. 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 Finalists of the 2022 I&I Book Awards novel competition for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Tana Hope – Healthy Habits for Desk Potatoes
- Kenneth Nixon Jr. – Born Into Crisis
- John W. Feist – Pocket Japan: a concise guidebook for business travelers to Japan
- Deborah Vinall, PsyD, LMFT – Trauma Recovery Workbook for Teens
- Kip and Pam Rosser – Vegetarian Tales From the Mushroom Rooms
- Natalie Dale, MD – A Writer’s Guide to Medicine. Volume 2: Illness & Injury
- Kerrin Margiano – Enjoy the Gift of Childhood
- Simran Sadana & Meena Iyer – Ramayana Through Ikebana
- Michael J. Freeman Ph.D. – Freeman Explains! The Things That Can Change That Should Be Changed
- Matthew J. Louis – Mission Transition: Navigating the Opportunities and Obstacles to Your Post-Military Career
- Gene Berardelli – Schnooks, Crooks, Liars & Scoundrels: A Field Guide to Identifying Political Buffoons
- Wendela Whitcomb Marsh – Dating While Autistic: Cut Through the Social Quagmire and Find Your Person
- Ellen Notbohm – Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew
- Gustavo J. Gomez, Ph.D. – Hair Loss: Options for Restoration & Reversal 2nd Edition
- Ann E Feldman – Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change
- Margaret Tran – The Actions
- E. Alan Fleischauer – Reconfigurement
- D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
- Tracy Cram Perkins – Dementia Home Care, How to Prepare Before, During, and After
- Sandy Gerber – Emotional Magnetism – How to Communicate to Ignite Connection in Your Relationships
- Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
- Jocelyn Jones – Artist: Awakening the Spirit Within
- Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
- Daryl Potter – Even the Monsters. Living with Grief, Loss, and Depression
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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2021 I&I Awards is
Ángela Quijada-Banks for The Black Foster Youth Handbook

Click here to see the 2021 I&I Book Award Winners for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions to the 2023 I&I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction. 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, 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!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
March 6, 2023
The Humor and Satire CIBAs 2022 Finalists
The Humor and Satire Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Humor and Satire. The Humor and Satire Book Awards is a division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring satire, humor, political ideology, parody, fantasy, and allegory or fable. These books have advanced to the next judging rounds. We will put them to the test and choose the best among them.

These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2022 Humor and Satire Fiction Short List to the 2022 Humor and Satire 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 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference–whether virtual, hybrid, or in-person.

These titles are in the running for the First Place and Grand Prize Winners of the 2022 Humor and Satire Book Awards novel competition!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Reenita M. Hora – Operation Mom – My Plan to Get my Mom a Life and a Man
- David Bush – General Jack and the Battle of the Five Kingdoms
- Mike Murphey – The Outlaw Gillis Kerg … Physics, Lust and Greed Series, Book 4
- Matthew J. White – A Feral Chorus
- Karla Huebner – In Search of the Magic Theater
- Daniel Eric Finkel – Mr. Taffle’s Pants of Insanity
- Dennis M. Clausen – One Flew Under the Bus
- Junior Burke – Buddha Was A Cowboy
- Steven Mayfield – Delphic Oracle, U.S.A.
- Mike Davis & TL Banks – Drunk Talk
- Marco Ocram – The Awful Truth About The Herbert Quarry Affair
- Ben Bongers – The Saint Nicholas Society
- Micah Thorp – Uncle Joe’s Muse
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 Humor and Satire Awards is Roger Wilson-Crane for Certified

Click here to see the 2021 Humor and Satire Book Award Winners.

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Humor and Satire Book Awards. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

Please click here for more information.

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

Join us April 27 – 29th, 2022! 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!

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at info@ChantiReviews.com.
March 3, 2023
Toni Ann Johnson, Chanticleer Award-Winning Author, Nominated for the Prestigious NAACP Awards, for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction

Discovering Today’s Best Books is Chanticleer’s Passion

We LOVE to CROW ABOUT GOOD NEWS about our AUTHORS!

And we have great news to share about Chanticleer award-winning author Toni Ann Johnson!

Toni Ann Johnson

Toni Ann Johnson’s literary work, Light Skin Gone to Waste short story collection was one of five top nominations for the prestigious 54th NAACP OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORKS – Fiction. She is an author, screenwriter, actress, and writer of essays & articles long and short-form.

Top Five Nominees for Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction 54th NAACP Awards

On February 25, 2023, NAACP announced the full list of the 54th NAACP Image Awards nominees. The two-hour show was televised live on BET in front of an audience for the first time in three years due to the Covid pandemic. Queen Latifah hosted the event.

Globally recognized as one of the most distinguished multicultural awards shows, the “54th NAACP Image Awards” will continue a tradition of excellence, uplifting values that inspire equality, justice, and progressive change, and highlighting artists committed to that purpose.

“This year’s nominees have conveyed a wide range of authentic stories and diverse experiences that have resonated with many in our community, and we’re proud to recognize their outstanding achievements and performances,” said Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP.

“We take pride in recognizing the trailblazing achievements and artistry of this year’s esteemed nominees and celebrating the powerful legacy of the NAACP,” said Connie Orlando, EVP of Specials, Music Programming & Music Strategy, BET. “We look forward to bringing the Image Awards back to Pasadena in front of a live audience and delivering unforgettable moments that epitomize the brilliance of the Black community.”

Light Skin Gone to Waste: Short Stories by Toni Ann Johnson

Light Skin Gone to Waste: Short Stories Collection by Toni Ann Johnson

Light Skin Gone to Waste also was awarded the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. The work was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2022.

“Toni Ann Johnson’s Light Skin Gone to Waste is one of the most engrossing short story collections I’ve read in recent memory. These interconnected stories about a black family living in a predominantly white suburb of New York City are impeccably written, incisive, often infuriating and unforgettable. At the center of many of these stories is Philip Arrington, a psychologist who tries to reshape the world to his liking as he moves through it, regardless of the ways his actions affect the people in his intimate orbit. With a deft eye for detail, crisp writing, and an uncanny understanding of human frailties, Toni Ann Johnson has created an endlessly interesting American family portrait.” Roxanne Gay, Flannery O’Connor Award

Remedy for a Broken Angel by Toni Ann Johnson was reviewed by Chanticleer in 2014. It was also nominated for the prestigious NAACP Outstanding Literary – Fiction award. Ms. Johnson contacted us then about the nomination. She redited Chanticleer’s review for its helpful role in getting the work noticed and nominated. We are proud and honored to play a small part in her nomination for this coveted award.

Toni Ann Johnson the submitted Homegoing into the 2021 Chanticleer Novella Book Awards division of the CIBAs.

The work was was awarded the SHORTS NOVELLA CIBA Grand Prize in 2021.

We are honored to play a small part of the discovery of Toni Ann Johnson’s stellar works.

One of the most iconic annual celebrations of Black excellence, the NAACP Image Awards draws the biggest and brightest stars in Hollywood. Previous years’ attendees and winners include Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Hudson, Rihanna, Wizkid, Lizzo, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Michael B. Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Prince Harry & Meghan Markle, Jamie Foxx, Chloe x Halle, Regé-Jean Page, Daniel Kaluuya, Michaela Coel, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Blair Underwood, Will Smith, Taraji P. Henson, Marsai Martin, Viola Davis, Gabrielle Union, Kerry Washington, Anthony Anderson, Sterling K. Brown, Loni Love, Sheryl Underwood, Halle Berry, Common, Dwayne Johnson, Audra Day, John Legend, Lena Waithe, Tracee Ellis Ross, David Oyelowo, Laverne Cox, Octavia Spencer, Issa Rae, Trevor Noah, Yara Shahidi, Danai Gurira, Jacob Latimore, Jill Scott, H.E.R., Jay Pharoah, Jemele Hill, Loretta Devine, Sylvester Stallone, Meta Golding, Michael Smith, Tyler James Williams, Ava DuVernay, the late Chadwick Boseman, and many more.

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March 3, 2023
FUTURE’S DARK PAST: Time Forward Trilogy, Book 1 by J.L. Yarrow – Sci-Fi, Time Travel, Action & Adventure

A time travel epic, Future’s Dark Past is the creative endeavor of J.L Yarrow, husband and wife duo of John and Leanne Yarrow. The time-hopping action begins in the year 2355, in a world virtually uninhabitable outside a few city pods where food is scarce and violence a certainty.

Caught sneaking into a city pod with nowhere else to go, Kristen Winters agrees to join the Time Forward Project, a group from which no volunteers have ever returned. Kristin’s new superiors send her to fight a deadly battle for the fate of humanity. In 2025, Hunter Coburn becomes an important piece of the puzzle after he gets accidentally connected to Kristen’s time jumps. Initially on opposite sides, they must figure out how to work together as the plan to save the future becomes increasingly unstable.

John and Leanne do an excellent job of creating an immersive world from the beginning, with many characters who develop and grow with the story as it unfolds.

This book’s brief chapters make for easy binge-reading as the feeling of “just one more chapter” hits after each ending hook. This fictional world starts off strong, with well-established details, and the central characters join the story with compelling introductions. The Future’s Dark Past delivers a complex and winding time-travel plot, although sometimes the story loses focus on its main characters in that complexity, and sudden plot developments leave some other characters underdeveloped. Despite its chaotic sense of direction, Future’s Dark Past has a lot to love, and the following books in this series have many questions left to answer, and intriguing characters to pursue them.

Future’s Dark Past offers exciting action as its characters struggle to change the past, and in doing, change their future.

Kirsten and Hunter travel back in time both to prevent events set in history and to put plans in motion to help save the future. Their mission to stop the JFK assassination in 1963 will in particular will have readers swimming in suspense. As timelines branch and change, the characters try to parse which parts of their memory are even true anymore, creating fascinating dynamics between them.

The concluding arc of Future’s Dark Past will surprise readers, with an unexpected antagonist. This intense ending leaves the characters with a complex and dangerous job ahead of them. Humanity’s survival depends on it.

Future’s Dark Past by J.L. Yarrow won Grand Prize in the 2017 CIBA Cygnus Book Awards for Science Fiction. Available now!

March 3, 2023
The 2022 MIND and SPIRIT CIBAs Finalists for Enlightenment and Well-Being Non-Fiction
Mind and Spirit Non-Fiction

The Mind and Spirit Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Enlightenment and Well-Being Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Mind and Spirit Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring enlightenment, motivational/self-help, spirituality, mindfulness, well-being, meditation, and energy. 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 Mind and Spirit Non-Fiction Short List to the 2022 Mind and Spirit 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 Mind and Spirit Book Awards novel competition for Enlightenment, Spirituality, and Mindfulness Non-Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- Ananta Ripa Ajmera – The Way of the Goddess: Daily Rituals to Awaken Your Inner Warrior and Discover Your True Self
- Grieg de la Houssaye – Turn On Your Energy
- Nico Marceca and illustrated by Karen Sue Chen – The One Week Journal
- Kaleb Thompson – Peace in the Midst of the Storm
- Dr Amanda Foo-Ryland – Knowing You
- Wendie Colter, MCWC, CMIP – Essentials of Medical Intuition: A Visionary Path to Wellness
- Deborah Vinall, PsyD, LMFT – Gaslighting: A Step-by-Step Recovery Guide to Heal from Emotional Abuse and Build Healthy Relationships
- D Terrence Foster. M.D – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
- Felicia Pizzonia – Mind Candy: The Code to Program Your Subconscious Mind to Achieve Any Goal
- Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
- Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
- Jocelyn Jones – ARTIST: Awakening the Spirit Within
- Daryl Potter – Even the Monsters. Living with Grief, Loss, and Depression
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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 Mind and Spirit Awards is Beth Gibbs for Enlighten Up!

Click here to see the 2021 Mind and Spirit Book Award Winners

We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Mind and Spirit Book Awards for Enlightenment and Well-Being 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 on April 29, 2023, 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!
March 2, 2023
The 2022 HARVEY CHUTE CIBAs Finalists for Business and Enterprise Non-fiction
The HARVEY CHUTE Book Awards recognize emerging talent and outstanding works in the genre of Business and Enterprise Non-fiction. The Harvey Chute Book Awards is a genre division of the Chanticleer International Book Awards (The CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring motivational, strategy, technology guides, social media, finance, investing & money, communications, marketing, business, and economics. We will put these books 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 Harvey Chute Non-Fiction Short List to the 2022 Harvey Chute 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 for the 2022 Harvey Chute Book Awards novel competition for Business, Finance, and Enterprise Non-Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.
- J.W. Huebner – The Irrelevant Old Brand: A Business Fable About Taking Your Brand from Mediocre to Must-Have
- Melina Palmer – What Your Customer Wants and Can’t Tell You
- Melina Palmer – What Your Employees Need and Can’t Tell You
- Joanne Griffin & Declan Foster – Humology
- Christopher H. Volk – The Value Equation: A Business Guide to Wealth Creation for Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Investors
- Mitzi Perdue – Mark Victor Hansen, Relentless: Wisdom Behind the Incomparable Chicken Soup for the Soul
- Morag Barrett – You, Me, We: Why we all need a friend at work (and how to show up as one!)
- Chad Carr – The Art and Science of Culture: The Power of Seeing What’s Hidden
- Edmund Yeung – Winning Your Biggest Paycheck
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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 Harvey Chute Awards is George Marino for Beyond Balancing the Books

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March 2, 2023
USA Today Bestselling Author Nicole Evelina to publish her first ever biography | Grand Prize Nellie Bly Winner America’s Forgotten Suffragists

When your mission is to Discover Today’s Best Books, you can’t help but crow about it when good news comes for your authors!

Nicole Evelina’s book America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor took home the Grand Prize for Longform Journalistic Non-Fiction, and that book is now available to be shared widely with the world at large!

A USA Today Bestselling author, this is Evelina’s first ever biography, and we know it’s going to be huge!

After being forgotten for nearly 130 years, the “Mother of Suffrage in Missouri” and her husband are finally taking their rightful place in history.

St. Louisans Virginia and Francis Minor forever changed the direction of women’s rights by taking the issue to the Supreme Court for the first and only time in 1875, a feat never eclipsed even by their better-known peers Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Yet despite a myriad of accomplishments and gaining notoriety in their own time, the Minors’ names have largely faded from memory. In 1867, Virginia founded the nation’s first organization solely dedicated to women’s suffrage—two years before Anthony formed the National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA). Virginia and Francis were also the brains behind the groundbreaking idea that women were given the right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment, a philosophy the NWSA adopted for nearly a decade.

And their story doesn’t end there. After the court case, Francis went on to become a prolific writer on women’s rights and one of the first and strongest male allies of the suffrage movement. Virginia instigated tax revolts across the country and campaigned side-by-side with Anthony for women’s rights in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska.

America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor is the first biography of these suffrage celebrities who were unique for their time in being jointly dedicated to the cause of female enfranchisement. This book follows their lives from slave-holding Virginians through their highly-lauded civilian work during the Civil War, and into the height of the early suffrage movement to show how two ordinary people of like mind, dedicated to a cause, can change the course of history.

Nicole Evelina is…

A USA Today bestselling author from St. Louis. Her specialties are historical fiction, non-fiction (biography, history and pop culture), and women’s fiction, with some poetry thrown in. Her books have won more than 50 awards, including four Book of the Year designations.

She’s represented by Amy Collins of Talcott-Notch Literary Services. Her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Independent Journal, Curve Magazine and numerous historical publications.

When not writing, you can find her reading, playing with her spoiled twin Burmese cats or at her day job as an internal communications (PR) manager. But that just pays the bills. To her core, she is a writer.

America’s Forgotten Suffragists is available now wherever books are sold! Village Books, Barnes & Noble, Amazon.

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March 1, 2023