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  • The HEARTEN 2022 CIBA WINNERS for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten 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. 

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

    This is the OFFICIAL 2022 LIST of the HEARTEN BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEARTEN Grand Prize Winner.

     

    Join us in celebrating the following authors and their award-winning works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Kerrin Margiano – Enjoy the Gift of Childhood

    • Ann E Feldman – Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change

    • Randi Benator – Awaken to Your Calling: A Guide to Discovering Your Career Path and Life Direction

    • Mohan Ranga Rao – Inner Trek: a reluctant pilgrim to the Himalayas

    • Roselle Madrone – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience 

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2022 HEARTEN Awards is:

    Inner Trek
    – a reluctant pilgrim to the Himalayas

    By Mohan Ranga Rao

    Inner Trek Cover

    The 2022 Hearten Grand Prize Badge for Inner Trek by Mohan Ranga Rao

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

    Attn CIBA Winners: More goodies and prizes will be coming your way along with promotion in our magazine, website, and advertisements in Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards long-tail marketing strategy. Welcome to the CIBA Hall of Fame for Award Winners!

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    A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in June. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items.

    To ALL the WINNERS: You will receive an OFFICIAL EMAIL NOTIFICATION with Digital Badges and more information.

    Grand Prize Division Winners will receive a customized digital badge. When we receive it from our graphic artist, we will also post here and in the Grand Prize Division Winners Official Posting.

    Thank you for participating in the 2022 CIBAs! We are looking forward to reading your future entries.

     Team Chanticleer

  • HEARTEN Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction 2020 CIBA Award Winners

    HEARTEN Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction 2020 CIBA Award Winners

    The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Uplifting and Inspiring, and Memoir. The Heartwarming Book  Awards is a NEW genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

    Due to an unprecedented number of 2020 Journey Book Awards, we split off the Heartwarming, Inspirational, Heartening, Humorous, and Happiness. Think of Chicken Soup for the Soul. These books have advanced to the Premier Level of Achievement in the 2020 CIBAs.

    We also are now offering the following CIBA Non-Fiction Divisions:

    • The Journey Awards for Narrative Nonfiction
    • The Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Mindfulness and Well-being
    • The Nellie Bly Book Awards for Investigative and Long-Form Journalism
    • The I & I Book Awards for Insight and Instruction for How-To, Guide Books, Self-Help, Cook Books, etc.
    • The Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business, Finance, and Enterprise
    • The Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring

    New in 2021 will be the Military Veterans and First Responders Non-Fiction works.

    The 2020 HEARTEN Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the HEARTEN Grand Prize Winner were announced by Janet Oakley on Saturday, June 5, 2021 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar and Facebook Live.

    It is our privilege and profound honor to announce the 1st in Category winners of the 2020 HEARTEN Awards, a division of the 2020 CIBAs.

    This is the OFFICIAL 2020 LIST of the HEARTEN BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the HEARTEN Grand Prize Winner.

    Congratulations to all!

    Congratulations to the 2020 1st Place Winners in the HEARTEN Book Awards!

    • Annerose D. Watts – Blue Plate Journey 
    • Katherine Snow Smith – Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker, Missteps, and Lessons Learned
    • Michael M. Van Ness – GENERAL IN COMMAND: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson from Iowa Farm to Command of the Largest Combat Corps in World War II 
    • Judy Gaman – Love, Life, and Lucille
    • Keturah Kendrick – No Thanks: Black, Female, And Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
    • Evelyn Kohl LaTorre – Between Inca Walls – Peace Corps memoir 
    • Deborah Tobola – Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison 
    • Suzanne Kamata – Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair 
    • Cerridwen Fallingstar – Broth from the Cauldron; A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic 
    • Bill Pullen – It Started at The Savoy 

         

        The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2020 Hearten Awards is:

        Judy Gaman for

        Love, Life, and Lucille

        Cover of Love, Life, and Lucille by Judy Gaman

        Blue and Gold Badge for the 2020 Grand Prize Hearten Awards Love, Life, and Lucille by Judy Gaman

         

        This is the first awarding for a Grand Prize in the HEARTEN Division

        The 2021 HEARTEN Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC22 on April 10, 2022. Save the date for CAC22, scheduled April 7-10, 2022, our 10 year Conference Anniversary!

        Submissions for the 2021 HEARTEN Book Awards are open until the end of November. Enter here!

        Don’t delay! Enter today! 

        A Note to ALL the WINNERS: The coveted CIBA Blue Ribbons will be mailed out starting in July. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

        • NEW CIBA Division | The 2020 Finalists for the HEARTEN Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction CIBAs

          NEW CIBA Division | The 2020 Finalists for the HEARTEN Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction CIBAs

          The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in Uplifting and Inspiring, and Memoir. The Heartwarming Book  Awards is a NEW genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

          Due to an unprecedented number of 2020 Journey Book Awards, we split off the Heartwarming, Inspirational, Heartening, Humorous, and Happiness. Think of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

          We also are now offering the following CIBA Non-Fiction Divisions:

          • The Journey Awards for Narrative Nonfiction
          • The Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Mindfulness and Well-being
          • The Nellie Bly Book Awards for Investigative and Long-Form Journalism
          • The I & I Book Awards for Insight and Instruction for How-To, Guide Books, Self-Help, Cook Books, etc.
          • The Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business, Finance, and Enterprise
          • The Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring

          New in 2021 will be the Military Veterans and First Responders Non-Fiction works.

          These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 SHORTLIST to the SEMI-FINALIST POSITION and have now progressed to the 2020 FINALISTS.  

          The following works have advanced in the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction.

          • Annerose D. Watts – Blue Plate Journey
          • Katherine Snow Smith – Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker, Missteps, and Lessons Learned
          • Cerridwen Fallingstar – Broth from the Cauldron; A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic
          • Judy Gaman – Love, Life, and Lucille
          • Keturah Kendrick – No Thanks: Black, Female, And Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
          • Evelyn Kohl LaTorre – Between Inca Walls
          • Bill Pullen – It Started at The Savoy
          • Deborah Tobola – Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison
          • Suzanne Kamata – Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair
          • T.D. Arkenberg – Trials & Truffles: Expats in Brussels
          • Frank Ball – Ball of Yarns
          • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series 
          • Michael M. Van Ness – GENERAL IN COMMAND: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson from Iowa Farm to Command of the Largest Combat Corps in World War II
          • Miguel A. Aguilo – Pencils in the Hand of God: Two Heavenly Adoption Stories
          • Tamra Bolton – A Blessed Life: One World War II Seabee’s Story

          These titles compete for the First Prize Winners of the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction. 

          Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction?

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

          The First Place Category Winners and the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies on June 5th, 2021, virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

          VCAC21 laurel wreath
          Register today!

           

             

             

            Keep checking back for more information about when you can submit for next the 2021 Heartwarming Awards. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

            Please click here for our full list of Book Awards.

            Don’t Delay! Enter Today! 

            As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.

             

             

          • NEW CIBA Division | 2020 HEARTEN Book Awards for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the NEW HEARTEN Division of the 2020 CIBAs

            NEW CIBA Division | 2020 HEARTEN Book Awards for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction – the Semi-Finalists for the NEW HEARTEN Division of the 2020 CIBAs

            The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Hearten Book  Awards is a NEW genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards and Novel Competitions (CIBAs).

            Due to an unprecedented number of 2020 Journey Book Awards, we split off the entries that we found Heartwarming, Inspirational, Heartening, Humorous, and Happiness  and developed the HEARTEN Book Awards. Think of Chicken Soup for the Soul.

             

            We also are now offering the following CIBA Non-Fiction Divisions:

            • The Journey Awards for Narrative Nonfiction
            • The Mind & Spirit Book Awards for Mindfulness and Well-being
            • The Nellie Bly Book Awards for Investigative and Long Form Journalism
            • The I & I Book Awards for Insight and Instruction for How-To, Guide Books, Self-Help, Cook Books, etc.
            • The Harvey Chute Book Awards for Business, Finance, and Enterprise
            • The Hearten Book Awards for Inspiration and Happiness

            New in Non-fiction Book Awards in 2021 will be the Military Veterans Non-Fiction works.

            These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from the 2020 HEARTEN Book Awards LONG LIST to the 2020 SHORT LIST and now have progressed to the 2020 SEMI-FINALISTS. The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the Finalists positions. 

            The following works have advanced in the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction

            • Terry A. Repak – What You Learn By Living Elsewhere
            • Annerose D. Watts – Blue Plate Journey
            • Mendek Rubin & Myra Goodman – Quest for Eternal Sunshine
            • Katherine Snow Smith – Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker, Missteps and Lessons Learned
            • Cerridwen Fallingstar – Broth from the Cauldron; A Wisdom Journey through Everyday Magic
            • Judy Gaman – Love, Life, and Lucille
            • Keturah Kendrick – No Thanks: Black, Female, And Living in the Martyr-Free Zone
            • Evelyn Kohl LaTorre – Between Inca Walls
            • Cindy Rasicot – Finding Venerable Mother: A Daughter’s Spiritual Quest to Thailand
            • Nan Sanders Pokerwinski – Mango Rash: Coming of Age in the Land of Frangipani and Fanta
            • Bill Pullen – It Started at The Savoy
            • Deborah Tobola – Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison
            • Suzanne Kamata – Squeaky Wheels: Travels with My Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair
            • T.D. Arkenberg – Trials & Truffles: Expats in Brussels
            • Frank Ball – Ball of Yarns
            • Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book One, Savoring the Olde Ways Series 
            • Michael M. Van Ness – GENERAL IN COMMAND: The Life of Major General John B. Anderson from Iowa Farm to Command of the Largest Combat Corps in World War II
            • Jennifer B. Monahan – Where To? How I Shed My Baggage and Learned to Live Free
            • Betty Theiler – Beyond Borders 
            • Julie Tate Libby – The Good Way, a Himalayan Journey
            • Miguel A. Aguilo – Pencils in the Hand of God: Two Heavenly Adoption Stories

              These titles are in the running for the First Prize Winners of the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction. 

              Which of these works will move forward in the judging rounds for the 2020 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting & Inspiring Non-Fiction?

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

              The Semi-Finalists’ works will compete for the First Place Winner positions, and then all will be recognized in the evenings at VCAC21 April 22-24th from 6-8 p.m. PST.

              The First Place Category Winners, along with the CIBA Division Grand Prize winners, will be selected from the 23 CIBA divisions Finalists. We will announce the 1st Place Category Winners and Grand Prize Division Winners the CIBAs Ceremonies June 5th, 2021 virtually (Free) and LIVE at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash.

              VCAC21 laurel wreath
              Register today!

               

                 

                 

                Keep checking back for more information about when you can submit for next the 2021 Hearten Awards. The winners will be announced in April 2022.

                Please click here for our full list of Book Awards.

                Don’t Delay! Enter Today! 

                As always, please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions, concerns, or suggestions at Info@ChantiReviews.com.