Tag: Memoir Awards

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 all 2021 I&I Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 I&I Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 I&I Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-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 25h, 2022 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2021 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 2021 CIBAs.

• Aaron Taylor – Stretching Your Way to a Pain-Free Life: Illustrated Stretches for Sports, Medical Conditions and Specific Muscle Groups
• Angela Quijada-Banks – The Black Foster Youth Handbook
• Brad Borkan and David Hirzel (co-authors) – Audacious Goals, Remarkable Results: How an Explorer, an Engineer and a Statesman Shaped our Modern World
• Brian Dillon – From Ex To Excellence  
• David Perlmutter – The Encyclopedia Of American Animated Television Shows 
• David Soh Poh Huat – Nature Gifts of the Soursop Leaves
• Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
• Eleanor K. Smith and Margaret Pastor – One School’s Journey – Further Down the Path
• George Marino, CPA, CFP – Beyond Balancing the Books: Sheer Mindfulness for Professionals in Work and Life
• Geraldine Clouston and Susan Weintrob – indieBRAG Eat, Read & Dream Cookbook
• Jennifer George – Communication is Care: 9 Empowering Strategies to Guide Patient Healing 
• Jim & Jessica Braz – Baby Out of Wedlock  
• Judy Taylor – Breaking the Boundaries: The Rug Hooking Artistry of Sharon Johnston 
• Kaitlyn Jain – Passports and Pacifiers? Traveling the World, One Tantrum at a Time 
• Kelly Tan Peterson, Dan Peterson, MD. – KETO BAKED
• M. J. Simms-Maddox, Ph.D. – A Handbook for Emerging and Seasoned Authors
• Mary M. Clare and Gary Ferguson – Full Ecology: Repairing Our Relationship with the Natural World
• Phoebe Walker – Freedom Found – Productive and Joyful Living In Spite of Chronic Pain
• Rob White – The Maestro Monologue
• Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
• Sabbithry Persad – What Is Coronavirus? How It Infects, How It Spreads, and How to Stay Safe
• Stan Bernard, MD, MBa – BRANDS DON’T WIN: How Transcenders Change the Game
• Susan Marie Conrad – Wildly Inside: A Visual Journey Through the Inside Passage  
• Wendela Whitcomb Marsh – Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls   
• Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
• Ben R Teeter – Falling Into All
• Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Two 
• Jan Kaa Kristensen – Splitting Up Without Falling to Pieces
• Melanie Choukas-Bradley – Finding Solace at Theodore Roosevelt Island
• Vindy Teja – YOLO: Essential Life Hacks for Happiness

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 I&I Awards is Wendela Whitcomb Marsh for Independent Living with Autism: Your Roadmap to Success

Click here to see the 2020 I&I Book Award Winners for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 I&I Book Awards for Instruction and Insight Non-Fiction. 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.

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 judging rounds from all 2021 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 Journey Short List. The Short Listers will compete for the Semi-Finalist positions. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-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 SHORT LIST of the 2021 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

If you have entered your works into the 2021 Journey Book Awards and do not see them in the list below, please visit the other Non-Fiction Book Awards listings:  Nellie Bly, Hearten, Mind & Spirit, Instruction and Insight, or perhaps Harvey Chute Book Awards. The Journey Book Awards have morphed into extreme stories of adversity – some of which were overcome; some that were not. Most of these accounts are intense and some should come with trigger warnings. We have moved some entries into the other non-fiction divisions based on the recommendations of the non-fiction judges.

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2021 CIBAs.

• Sherry Chapman – How Much Big Is the Sky: A Memoir of a Mother’s Love and Unfathomable Loss
• Tracie White with Ronald W. Davis – The Puzzle Solver: A Scientist’s Desperate Quest to Cure the Illness that Stole His Son
• Lisa Lynn Veith – Gold Medal
• Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
• Marilyn Mascaro – When the Rivers Flowed
• Marcie Maxfield – Em’s Awful Good Fortune
• William Johnson – Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
• Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
• Nikki West – The Odyssey of the Chameleon
• Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance — Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
• Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
• George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoire
• Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor’s Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine
• Renee K. Nicholson – Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness
• Margaret Thomson – The World Looks Different Now
• Sylvie Heyman – Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant’s Search for Identity
• Kawan Glover – Favor: How Stroke Struggle and Surgery Helped Me Find My Life’s Purpose
• Faith Fuller Wilcox – Hope Is a Bright Star: A Mother’s Memoir of Love, Loss, and Learning to Live Again
• George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
• Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine: Making Health Tangible
• Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
• Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
• Krista Nerestant – Indestructible:The Hidden Gifts of Trauma 
• Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
• Mark Allen – Based on a True (Traumatic) Brain History: a Short Memoir
• Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
• C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
• Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
• Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
• Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
• Anna Casamento Arrigo – Weeds Beneath the Open Meadows
• Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
• Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
• Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability 

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the FB post. However, for FB to allow us to tag an author, that author must LIKE our page and Follow Chanticleer Reviews. FB rules — not ours.

Please click here to visit our page to LIKE, COMMENT, and SHARE on Facebook.

Additionally, we also post on Twitter. Chanticleer Twitter’s handle is @ChantiReviews

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

The Grand Prize Winner for the 2020 JOURNEY Awards is Karen Keilt for The Parrot’s Perch: A Memoir of  Torture and Corrupti0n in Brazil 

Click here to see the 2020 Journey Book Award Winners for Narrative Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Journey 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.