Tag: Narrative Non-Fiction

  • The 2022 I&I CIBAs Short List for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction

    The 2022 I&I CIBAs Short List for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction

    I&I or Instruction & Insight Awards CIBA BadgeThe 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 Long List to the 2022 I&I Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 I&I 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 Semi-Finals 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 2021 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
    • Mitzi Perdue – Mark Victor Hansen, Relentless: Wisdom Behind the Incomparable Chicken Soup for the Soul
    • Christopher H. Volk – The Value Equation: A Business Guide to Wealth Creation for Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Investors
    • Daniel Shyti – American Gaslighting: How America Is Being Systematically Taught to Hate Itself
    • 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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    Good luck to all as your works move on to the next rounds of judging.

    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2021 I&I Awards is
    Ángela Quijada-Banks for The Black Foster Youth Handbook

    Black Foster Youth Handbook Cover

    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 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    a Wreath surrounds CAC 2023 for the 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

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

  • The 2022 HEARTEN CIBAs Short List for Inspiring & Uplifting 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. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Hearten Non-Fiction Long List to the 2022 Hearten Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Hearten Semi-Finalists. 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 Semi-Finalists of the 2022 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!

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

    • Kerrin Margiano – Enjoy the Gift of Childhood
    • Ed Norwood – Be a Giant Killer: Overcoming Your Everyday Goliaths
    • Mitzi Perdue – Mark Victor Hansen, RELENTLESS
    • Megan Whitmer – Mom Life Versus the Everyday Apocalypse
    • Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
    • 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
    • Beverly J. Armento – Seeing Eye Girl: A Memoir of Madness, Resilience, and Hope
    • C.J. Hudson – Destiny Lives on Fairhaven Street
    • Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
    • Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
    • Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
    • Mohan Ranga Rao – Inner Trek – Trek Himalayan
    • Roselle Madrone – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
    • Jocelyn Jones – Artist: Awakening the Spirit Within
    • Jackie Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
    • Laura Bartnick – Being Creative
    • Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
    • Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
    • Linda C Wright – A Bittersweet Goodnight

    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 2021 HEARTEN Awards is
    Diane Trull & Meredith Wargo for
    DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them

    Cover of DAWGS, the 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Hearten Awards

    Blue and Gold Grand Prize Badge for the 2021 Hearten Awards, won by DAWGs

    Click here to see the 2021 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC24. 

    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!

    Featuring: Book to Screen expert and attorney Maggie Marr

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • The 2022 JOURNEY CIBAs Finalists for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    The 2022 JOURNEY CIBAs Finalists for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA BadgeThe 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 Semi-Finalist Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey 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 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Finalist authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
    • Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
    • Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
    • Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
    • Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
    • Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
    • Roselle Madrone – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
    • D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
    • Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
    • Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
    • Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
    • Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
    • Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
    • M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
    • Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
    • Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
    • Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
    • Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
    • Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
    • Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
    • Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
    • Denise Collins – What Happened to John

    Blue and Gold Badge for the finalists of the Journey non-fiction awards

     

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 JOURNEY Awards is:

    Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

    Andrea Wilson Woods

    The 2022 JOURNEY 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 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    IN-Person – 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.

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

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

  • The 2022 Military & Front Lines CIBAs Short List for Service to Others

    Military and Front Line Awards Badge with a Doctors Coat and Military FatiguesThe Military & Front Lines Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Narrative Non-Fiction and Memoir exploring the lives of those who serve their country and others. The Military & Front Lines Service 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. 

    Note: This is the newest division at Chanticleer! We are honored to recognize these specialized stories from those who serve.

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Military and Front Line Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Military and Front Line Book Awards SHORT LIST.  Finalists will be selected from the Short List. 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 Military & Front Lines Book Awards for Narrative Non-Fiction.

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

    • Robert E. Lofthouse – Honor Through Sacrifice
    • Colonel Van H. Slayden, USAF, with Patrecia Slayden Hollis – Normandy to Nazi Surrender, Firsthand Account of a P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot
    • George Kohn – Vector to Destiny
    • Tamra McAnally Bolton – A Blessed Life
    • Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over: A Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
    • Azim H. Jiwani, MD – Humanizing Medicine
    • Isaac Alexis M.D. – The Seductive Pink Crystal
    • Marcus A. Nannini – Midnight Flight to Nuremberg
    • Christine Herbert – The Color of the Elephant: Memoir of a Muzungu
    • Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
    • Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun
    • Brant Vickers – Chucky’s in Tucson
    • Matthew J. Louis – Mission Transition: Navigating the Opportunities and Obstacles to Your Post-Military Career
    • Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze
    • Jonathon C. Benjamin – American Airman

    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.

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

    This is a new division of the Chanticleer Int’l Book Awards!

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 Military and Front Line Awards is Martha Bolton with Linda Hope for Dear Bob… Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of WW2

    Dear Bob Cover

    Click here to see the 2021 Military an Front Line Book Award Winners for Service to Others

    We are now accepting submissions for the 2023 Military and Front Line Book Awards. The 2023 Winners will be announced at CAC 2024.

    Learn more here.

    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!

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • The 2022 I&I CIBAs Long List for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction

    The 2022 I&I CIBAs Long List for Instructional and Insightful Non-Fiction

    I&I or Instruction & Insight Awards CIBA Badge

    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 2022 I&I Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 I&I Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for the 2022 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 (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 SHORT LIST 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 2021 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
    • Mitzi Perdue – Mark Victor Hansen, Relentless: Wisdom Behind the Incomparable Chicken Soup for the Soul
    • Christopher H. Volk – The Value Equation: A Business Guide to Wealth Creation for Entrepreneurs, Leaders and Investors
    • Daniel Shyti – American Gaslighting: How America Is Being Systematically Taught to Hate Itself
    • 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
    • Jennifer Browdy – Purposeful Memoir as a Quest for a Thriving Future
    • Linda Kolsky – Heavenly Hindsights: How One Mother Found Meaning in Life After the Death of Her Child
    • 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

    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.

    This post has been posted on the Chanticleer Facebook Page. We try to tag all authors listed here in the FB post.

    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

    Or click here to go directly to Chanticleer’s Twitter feed.

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

    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2021 I&I Awards is
    Ángela Quijada-Banks for The Black Foster Youth Handbook

    Black Foster Youth Handbook Cover

    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 2021 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2022 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

    a Wreath surrounds CAC 2023 for the 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

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

     

  • The 2022 Semi-Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    The 2022 Semi-Finalists JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

    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 Short List Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards SEMI-FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Journey 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 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Semi-Finalist authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
    • Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
    • Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
    • Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
    • Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
    • Nicholas Chittick – A PRISONER’S FIGHT: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
    • Linda Murphy Marshall – Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
    • Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
    • Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
    • Roselle Madrone, Robin Detmer, & Kris Dutter – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
    • D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
    • Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
    • Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
    • Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
    • Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
    • Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
    • M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
    • Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
    • Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
    • Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
    • Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
    • Jackie Carol Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
    • Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
    • Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
    • Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
    • Denise Collins – What Happened to John

     

    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.

    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 to the next rounds of judging.

    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 JOURNEY Awards is:

    Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

    Andrea Wilson Woods

    The 2022 JOURNEY 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 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    IN-Person – 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.

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    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • The 2022 HEARTEN Book Awards for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List

    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. 

    These titles have moved forward in the judging rounds from all 2022 Hearten Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Hearten Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Hearten 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 (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 SHORT LIST of the 2022 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!

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

    • Bill Leone – My Life With My Wife
    • Kerrin Margiano – Enjoy the Gift of Childhood
    • Ed Norwood – Be a Giant Killer: Overcoming Your Everyday Goliaths
    • Mitzi Perdue – Mark Victor Hansen, RELENTLESS
    • Megan Whitmer – Mom Life Versus the Everyday Apocalypse
    • Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
    • Regina Petra Meyer – Change of Course: Sailing into Love & Adversity on Caribbean Shores
    • 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
    • Beverly J. Armento – Seeing Eye Girl: A Memoir of Madness, Resilience, and Hope
    • C.J. Hudson – Destiny Lives on Fairhaven Street
    • Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
    • Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
    • Mohan Ranga Rao – Inner Trek – Trek Himalayan
    • Roselle Madrone, Robin Detmer, & Kris Dutter – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
    • Jocelyn Jones – Artist: Awakening the Spirit Within
    • Janet Thompson – The Golfer’s Wife: From Birdies to Quadruple Bogies and the Rough in Between
    • Jackie Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
    • Laura Bartnick – Being Creative
    • Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
    • Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
    • Linda C Wright – A Bittersweet Goodnight

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the 2021 HEARTEN Awards is
    Diane Trull & Meredith Wargo for
    DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them

    Cover of DAWGS, the 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Hearten Awards

     

     

    Blue and Gold Grand Prize Badge for the 2021 Hearten Awards, won by DAWGs

    Click here to see the 2021 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction

    We are now accepting submissions into the 2023 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2023 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC24. 

    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.

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    Featuring: Book to Screen expert and attorney Maggie Marr

    A Collage of Speakers and Blue Ribbon Winners for CAC23

  • The 2022 Short List JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    The 2022 Short List JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

    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 Long List Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 Journey Semi-Finalists. 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 SEMI-FINALIST of the 2022 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the ShortList authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Ian Gregory – On Insanity
    • Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
    • Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
    • Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
    • Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
    • Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
    • Nicholas Chittick – A PRISONER’S FIGHT: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
    • Linda Murphy Marshall – Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
    • Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
    • Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
    • Roselle Madrone, Robin Detmer, & Kris Dutter – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
    • D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
    • Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
    • Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
    • Katherine Caire – Accidental Sisters
    • Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
    • Lyn Barrett – Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory
    • Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
    • Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
    • M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
    • Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
    • Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
    • Stuart Nagero – Truth is Indestructible
    • Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
    • Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
    • Jackie Carol Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
    • Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
    • Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
    • Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
    • Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
    • Melissa Harris – One Pound, Twelve Ounces
    • Denise Collins – What Happened to John

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

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 JOURNEY Awards is:

    Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

    Andrea Wilson Woods

    The 2022 JOURNEY 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 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    IN-Person – 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

  • The 2022 Long List JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    The 2022 Long List JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

    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 2022 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2022 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 (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 SHORT LIST of the 2022 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

    Join us in celebrating the Long List authors and their works in the 2022 CIBAs.

    • Ian Gregory – On Insanity
    • Sandi Paris – Catching Rain
    • Michael Wohl – In Herschel’s Wake
    • Ashe and Magdalena Stevens – Lost in Beirut: A True Story of Love, Loss and War
    • Norris Comer – Salmon in the Seine: Alaskan Memories of Life, Death, & Everything In-Between
    • Laura Whitfield – Untethered: Faith, Failure, and Finding Solid Ground
    • Nicholas Chittick – A PRISONER’S FIGHT: The Pandemic as Seen From Inside the Illinois Department of Corrections
    • Linda Murphy Marshall – Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
    • C.J. Hudson – Destiny Lives on Fairhaven Street
    • Kim Fairley – Swimming for My Life
    • Kyomi O’Connor – A Sky of Infinite Blue- A Japanese Immigrant’s Search for Home and Self
    • Carter Obasohan – Notes From Out West
    • Roselle Madrone, Robin Detmer, & Kris Dutter – The Open Book: A Family Memoir of Adventure, Trauma, and Resilience
    • D. Terrence Foster, MD – The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life
    • Mark Berridge – A Fraction Stronger
    • Joseph G. Krygier with Victor Breitburg – A Rage To Live: Surviving The Holocaust So Hitler Would Not Win
    • Katherine Caire – Accidental Sisters
    • Donna McCart Welser – Rue’s Butterfly
    • Lyn Barrett – Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory
    • Simone Yemm – Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder
    • Philip Lister – A Short Good Life: Her Father Tells Liza’s Story of Facing Death
    • Tina Scott – The Forbidden Fruit: A True Story of Sex, Drugs, and the Afterlife
    • M. E. Schuman – The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land of the Midnight Sun
    • Meredith O’Brien – Opening The Door: My Journey Through Anorexia To Full Recovery
    • Susan Frances Morris – The Sensitive One
    • Stuart Nagero – Truth is Indestructible
    • Amelia Zachry – Enough – A Memoir of Mistakes, Mania, and Motherhood
    • Carolyn DiPasquale – Reckless Grace: A Mother’s Crash Course in Mental Illness
    • Jackie Carol Haines – Pinball, the Stray I Needed
    • Benjamin Plumb – The Satisfied Introvert: A Memoir About Finding Safety in an Extroverted World
    • Mike Coleman – The Way from Me to Us
    • Linda Kolsky – Heavenly Hindsights: How One Mother Found Meaning in her Life After the Death of Her Child
    • Gabriel Bron – The Journey Home: Portraits of Healing
    • Catherine Ehrlich – Irma’s Passport: One Woman, Two World Wars, and a Legacy of Courage
    • Melissa Harris – One Pound, Twelve Ounces
    • Denise Collins – What Happened to John
    • Lynette Ingram – Flares from a Fallout Shelter
    • Linda Lee Henderson – Wake Up Mom!

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

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    The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2021 JOURNEY Awards is:

    Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

    Andrea Wilson Woods

     

    The 2022 JOURNEY 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 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of July. Enter here!

    Don’t delay! Enter today! 

    IN-Person – 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!

  • Navigating Narrative Non-Fiction | November Deadlines for the CIBAs

    Demystify Your Non-Fiction with Chanticleer

    In Fiction, genre boundaries can sometimes seem so clear, scifi has aliens and mysteries have a murder, but how do we organize Non-Fiction?

    Chanticleer offers a wide variety of Non-Fiction Book Awards, and here we’ll focus on the Narrative Non-Fiction Divisions.

    These Divisions are:

    The Original*

    Journey Narrative Non-Fiction CIBA Badge

    The Journey Awards came first. These awards shine bright as the lodestar of quality for the others. As more Non-Fiction submissions came in, the number of Non-Fiction Divisions expanded to fill the need. Right now, the Journey Awards focuses primarily on stories Overcoming Adversity. Often tear-jerkers, these stories highlight the resiliency of being human.

    The 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Journey Awards was Better off Bald by Andrea Wilson Woods.

    Better Off Bald CoverThere exists a bond between sisters, and often that bond becomes a connection so strong that time cannot erase the love and the longing for the other. Andrea Wilson Woods defines such a bond in Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days.

    Woods details the choreographed life she lives with her sister Adrienne, who has been diagnosed with cancer. Together they begin their dance, pirouetting around IV ports and long lists of medications. Sisters in life, love, and an all-out war against liver cancer.

    Woods retells her story with compassion and a rational eye for detail while embracing all the deep emotions that ravage her as she records every one of the 147 days after the initial diagnosis.
    Their confusion about how this could have happened and their hope that they can beat this “thing” growing inside Adrienne are present on each page. Woods makes note of the doctors by name, the nurses by nicknames, and the hospital visits by hours spent waiting, waiting, waiting for help to come and rescue them from the nightmare that cancer has made of their lives.

    Read more here.

    *Note: The Journey Awards deadline has already passed, but the 2023 Journey Awards are open now!

    Putting in the Research

    Nellie Bly Awards

    Following the Journey Awards, it became clear we needed Awards focused on Journalism and Reporting. Enter the Nellie Bly Awards, named for reporter Nellie Bly whose journey around the Earth inspired the story Around the World in 80 Days. These books can back up all their facts with hard dates and maybe even an appendix at the end. They tell the stories that call out for their place in history.

    The 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Nellie Bly Awards was America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor by Nicole Evelina.

    America's Forgotten Suffragists Virginia and Francis Minor Cover

    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.

    Read more here.

    Opening up Personal Narratives

    As the Journey Awards began filling up, it became difficult to recognize both the uplifting and inspirational work as well as the work that looked at the darker side of what people overcome in their life. To try and highlight this warmer tone of writing, the Hearten Awards were introduced, so this “chicken soup for the soul” style of book could be brought to the forefront.

    The 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Hearten Awards was DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them by Diane Trull & Meredith Wargo

    Cover of DAWGS

    We can all make a difference. Elementary-school teacher Diane Trull’s life-defining moment happened when her fourth-grade reading class saw a photo of a cardboard box overflowing with homeless puppies. Trull was no stranger to rescuing abandoned animals. She and her husband, Mark, had made it their mission to find permanent homes for stray dogs and cats. Now her young students were determined to save these lost pups and others like them. And in that moment, the Dalhart Animal Wellness Group and Sanctuary-known as DAWGS-was born. How Trull and her fourth graders started their own animal shelter is a story of dedication, commitment, and perseverance. In this eye-opening, deeply personal book, Trull describes the challenges they faced, from rescuing and caring for the animals to teaching children about compassion and responsibility, to facing local interests opposed to having a shelter in their town. She shares inspiring stories about animals and animal lovers of all ages in this moving story of hope and compassion. DAWGS is a testament to how love and a strong measure of determination can offer second chances-one animal, one child, and one day at a time.

    The Newest Division from Chanticleer

    The Military and Front Line Awards are close to our heart at Chanticleer. We’ve often wanted enough submissions for this to be its own Division as we all have family who has served in the military. However, we wanted these Awards to represent all walks of life that provide Service to Others like firefighters, teachers, medical workers, and the family of those who work to make our world a better place.

    The 2021 Grand Prize Winner for the Military and Front Line Awards was Dear Bob by Martha Bolton with Linda Hope

    Dear Bob Cover

    For five decades, comedian, actor, singer, dancer, and entertainer Bob Hope (1903-2003) traveled the world performing before American and Allied troops and putting on morale-boosting USO shows. Dear Bob . . . : Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.I.s of World War II tells the story of Hope’s remarkable service to the fighting men and women of World War II, collecting personal letters, postcards, packages, and more sent back and forth among Hope and the troops and their loved ones back home.

    Soldiers, nurses, wives, and parents shared their innermost thoughts, swapped jokes, and commiserated with the “G.I.s’ best friend” about war, sacrifice, lonely days, and worrisome, silent nights. The Entertainer of the Century performed for millions of soldiers in person, in films, and over the radio. He visited them in the hospitals and became not just a pal but their link to home. This unforgettable collection of letters and images, many of which remained in Hope’s personal files throughout his life and now reside at the Library of Congress, capture a personal side of both writer and recipient in a very special and often-emotional way. This volume heralds the voices of those servicemen and women whom Hope entertained and who, it is clear, delighted and inspired him.

    Read more here.


    A huge thank you to these incredible authors.

    Keep Writing. Truth matters now more than ever.

    Have an excellent Non-Fiction Narrative that deserves recognition? Submit now to our Non-Fiction Book Awards by the end of November!*

    Note: The Journey Awards Deadline has already passed

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