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The 2022 NELLIE BLY CIBAs Short List 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 all 2022 Nellie Bly Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Nellie Bly 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 position 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
- Joanne Griffin & Declan Foster – Humology
- 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
- Nicholas Chittick – A Prisoner’s Fight: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
- Lyndsie Bourgon – Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
- Christopher Burns – Networks Rising: Thinking Together in a Flatter World
- 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: Patriotism & Politics.
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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!

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February 15, 2023
The NELLIE BLY 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Longform Journalism Non-Fiction
The Nellie Bly Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Journalistic Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Nellie Bly 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 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.

The 2021 NELLIE BLY Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the NELLIE BLY Grand Prize Winner were announced by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

This is the OFFICIAL 2021 LIST of the NELLIE BLY BOOK AWARDS First Place Category Winners and the NELLIE BLY Grand Prize Winner.

Join us in celebrating the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
- Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s Clinic
- Nicole Evelina – America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor
- 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
The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 NELLIE BLY Awards is:

America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor

by Nicole Evelina

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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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The 2022 NELLIE BLY 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 2022 NELLIE BLY 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 August. We will contact you with an email to verify your mailing address and other items. We thank you for participating in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards!
July 5, 2022
PRISON From The INSIDE OUT: One Man’s Journey from a Life Sentence to Freedom by William “Mecca” Elmore & Susan Simone – Journalistic Non-Fiction, Memoir, Civil Rights Law

Prison from Inside Out: One Man’s Journey from a Life Sentence to Freedom is an illuminating chronicle that tells the story of a man who not only survived the stoniest soil but used his experiences to thrive as a human being.

This arresting memoir is essentially a road trip of William ‘Mecca’ Elmore, a man with a tumultuous childhood, growing up in a neighborhood chock full of social problems. It is in this environment that Elmore is involved in a crime that consequently leads to his arrest and trial. The story builds upon his incarceration in various correctional facilities, his experiences, his release through a Mutual Agreement Parole Program, and his eventual redemption.

The story is documented by Susan Simone and includes accounts from Elmore’s sister, his mother, friends, and cellmates giving this memoir an all-round picture of prison life for those behind bars and those they leave behind to go and serve their sentences. Often, due to years of incarceration, former convicts face a hard time, at times life-threatening, making a reentry into society and sometimes returning to a life of crime. This tapestry brings out the redeeming value of human beings by giving hope to this group through its honest account and how he managed to survive after release.

At turns, heartbreaking, cheerful, and inspiring, Elmore’s memoir glides in deep awareness.

His perceptible emotional voice, ever-present in the narrative, pulls back the curtain to reveal the harsh realities of prison life, the sometimes indelible effect of solitary confinement, the politics that revolve around prison, and the determination to keep one’s head up amidst the chaos. The text is not potentially traumatizing nor does it ignore some of the inadequacies of the US penal system, but rather seeks to educate in a hopeful way about the true possibility of starting anew.

The text opens a door to a much-needed discussion on the need to have prison reforms that guide prisoners on a path of transformation and staying crime-free upon returning to society rather than crushing their hope and resolve to change. William’s courage along with his family’s to tell their stories without acrimony will go a long way in offering hope to many who feel sidestepped and forgotten.

The book winds up towards a ruminative ending that sees Elmore, Bessie, and Cheryl primarily reflect on Elmore’s past incarceration giving the book a heartfelt conclusion.

The book integrates vintage photographs along with captions inviting the audience further into the story. Candid and insightful, it stands among the world’s most moving testimonies of the profound value of literature.

Ultimately, Prison from the Inside Out: One Man’s Journey from a Life Sentence to Freedom by Susan Simone and William Elmore is a beacon of hope for those who have passed through the prison system and a necessary read for legislators, police officers, and all who work with the penal system.

Learn more about the background of the book by visiting the website: www.PrisonFromTheInsideOut.org

Prison from the Inside Out by William Elmore & Susan Simone won Grand Prize in the 2020 CIBA Nellie Bly Book Awards for Journalistic & Investigative Non-Fiction.

May 20, 2022
The 2021 NELLIE BLY Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction – CIBAs Finalists 2021
The Nellie Bly Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Journalistic Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Nellie Bly 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 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 2021 Nellie Bly Non-Fiction Short List to the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards FINALISTS. 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 FIRST PLACE WINNERS of the 2021 Nellie Bly Book Awards novel competition for Journalistic Non-Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.
- Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
- Dori Jones Yang – When the Red Gates Opened
- Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s Clinic
- Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs
- Jim Lichtman – Trust and Confidence
- Angela Quijada-Banks – The Black Foster Youth Handbook
- 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 Hernández – 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
- 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
- Susan Marie Conrad – Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage
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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

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!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
March 11, 2022
The 2021 NELLIE BLY Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021
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!

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

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!

FLEXIBLE REGISTRATIONS ARE AVAILABLE for these challenging times.

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 10th annual conference and discover why!

Featuring: International Best Selling Author Cathy Ace along with A+ list film producer Scott Steindorff.
January 16, 2022
SHAPING PUBLIC OPINION: How Real Advocacy Journalism™ Should be Practiced by Janice Ellis, Ph.D. – Media and Internet Politics, Political Advocacy, Human Rights

Janice S. Ellis, Ph.D., introduces the journalistic theories of Walter Lippmann in her new non-fiction work, Shaping Public Opinion: How Real Advocacy Journalism™ Should be Practiced.

Walter Lippmann, considered one of the foremost journalists in the field over the last 100 years, was a mentor in absentia of Dr. Ellis in the art of advocacy journalism. During Lippmann’s 40+ year career, his columns were syndicated in over 250 newspapers nationwide and over 25 other international news and information outlets. Lippman focused on the ethical dissemination of information, especially about communities, society, and the world. A theory, which Dr. Ellis calls Real Advocacy Journalism™.

Real Advocacy Journalism™ theory pertains to foundational behavior and ethical standing for those who report on, translate, and share information with the masses. This theory identifies the tension between individualism and collectivism, the private sector and public sector, the ruling elite, and the dormant masses.

Real Advocacy Journalism™ eschews demagoguery and tribalism for a belief that reason, logic, facts, truth, and clear graphic language are the most effective instrument of public persuasion.

Remarkably well researched, Dr. Ellis shows throughout the book how Lippmann identified challenges to factual sharing of information and how he spoke to the importance of choosing words wisely.

Three tasks every journalist must consider in the pursuit of Real Advocacy Journalism, 1—separate words and their meanings in order to disentangle complex ideas, 2.-be effective at creating a visual picture to explain the words and concepts used, and, 3.-have a good understanding of the traits and characteristics of the target audience.

Lippmann knew the impossible task of considering everything that the typical listener may utilize in their life as a filter of information. As the audience grows, the number of common words and references diminishes. The information becomes more abstract, lacking a distinct character of its own. This phenomenon leaves the general audience to interpret the message as they see fit, not necessarily equal to the original information. Age, race, gender, social standing, mood, and “his place on the board in any game of life he is playing” inform how information is understood. The journalist must set the highest goal to clarify, evaluate and draw conclusions for readers and listeners too preoccupied or too removed from the actual events to judge clearly for themselves.

The problem occurs when the constant feed of partial information is based on opinion and not wholly on facts.

Information in its most proper form may be perceived as dull and uninteresting. To gain viewers, “opinion news” sources have become increasingly personal and deliberately dramatic to stop the viewer from tuning out or turning the channel. Not having the time, energy, or understanding to draw their conclusions, the listener accepts this partial information as truth.

Ellis cites Robert O. Anthony as saying, “The secret to Lippman’s ability to reach such a wide audience lay in his expert understanding of the information, his reasonableness of temper, his complete honest and profound attachment to the principles of liberty.”

Lippman’s “survivors,” Kennedy, Schlesinger, and others claim Lippman taught them how to think.

He perfected a rare ability to impose verbal order on chaos. Even when wrong, corrected, or later expanded on, the goal was not to be the only voice but to be like “the village light post.” Ellis’ book exposes the dangers of “opinion news” and how very counterproductive “celebrity journalism” truly is, as it puts profits and popularity (ratings) over actual truth.

Ellis encourages readers to research and discover the meaning of the words being used to grasp the whole picture of what any news source presents. Shaping Public Opinion: How Real Advocacy Journalism™ Should Be Practiced won Grand Prize in the 2019 CIBAs, Nellie Bly Awards for Longform Journalism.

July 19, 2021
The Winter Olympics: An Insider’s Guide to the Legends, Lore, and the Games by Ron C. Judd

Flashbacks, gruesome accounts, victories relived, analysis, and competitors’ profiles of the Winter Olympics are revealed in Ron C. Judd’s captivating compendium titled The Winter Olympics: An Insider’s Guide to the Legends, Lore, and the Games.

Judd doesn’t just report the scores, the times, the winners and the losers. He relays the human drama that unfolds during the Games—the glorious victories and, yes, the gut-wrenching agonies—the very stuff that becomes tomorrow’s lore and legends.

Ron C. Judd is like a Joseph Campbell of the Olympic Games. He writes of transcendent experiences, of impossible feats, and, he says, “of moments that are beyond description.” But describing these moments is exactly what he does. Judd deftly captures and vividly relates the escalation of emotions, the split-second moments that separate the winners from the losers after decades of day-in and day-out grueling training, the sweaty reality of the Olympics along with the heady glory and magic he has witnessed and experienced first-hand.

The guide covers the history and beginnings of the Winter Games and the athletes who compete in them. Judd, a self-professed “ring-head” has been covering the Olympics as a journalist since the Nagano Games in 1998. He has been following the Games since he was in high school, which was when the 1980 Olympics took place in Lake Placid, New York.

Your interests about sport categories such as Curling will be piqued. Thanks to this entertaining guide, I finally understand how it is played and scored. And why it is an Olympic Winter Game. Judd also reveals tantalizing tidbits such as who are sex symbols of Curling. Yes, Curling has its idols too.

Discover the fun facts and interesting anecdotes of the Winter Games as Judd guides you through the intricacies of rules and strategies of sports such as cross-country skiing and Nordic combined competitions. Finding out how the first biathlon races got started (Hint: It has something to do with caribou.) is just one of the reasons why this book is such a fun and entertaining guide. It goes beyond the basics of regulations and scoring.

Judd addresses the age old debate that takes place mostly in pubs: The question of whether figure skating is a sport or an art. He describes how the Figure Skating competitions are judged or rather how they are supposedly judged. After reading his tome, you will agree with Judd that figure skating is not for the meek or the weak.

On that note, I was intrigued to see if he had anything to say about that Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan debacle. He does. You, too, can read about the rest of the story in The Winter Olympics.

Judd treats his readers to the true insider’s account of “the agony of defeat” film footage. You know—the one that was shown over and over—on the opening of ABC’s Wide World of Sports program for what must seem like an eternity to the poor guy who was filmed crashing while ski jumping. And why did we as an audience watch him crash over and over? Because as Judd writes ever so eloquently: “He is us, and we are him…” in victory and in defeat.

The action-packed full-colored photographs that permeate The Winter Games are enough of a reason to purchase it just to have on your coffee table. However, it is an authoritative and intelligently written reference guide about the Winter Games. Judd continuously acknowledges that he is one fortunate guy to have witnessed firsthand history in the making. He never tires of the Games. And neither do the fans. This book is the superlative guide to the Winter Games.

It is Judd’s insider, behind-the-scenes stories of intrigue that entertain and educate us. The lore and legends that he has gleaned from his years as a dedicated “ring-head” journalist, along with his effusive admiration of the dedicated athletes who compete, earns The Winter Olympics: An Insider’s Guide to the Legends, the Lore, and the Games a gold medal.

March 4, 2012