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  • 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

     

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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 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.

    PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

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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.

    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.

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

  • The JOURNEY 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Overcoming Adversity Non-Fiction

    The JOURNEY 2021 CIBA WINNERS for Overcoming Adversity 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. 

    The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards First Place Category Winners and the JOURNEY Grand Prize Winner were announced by Cami Ostman on Saturday, June 25, 2022 at the Hotel Bellwether and broadcast via ZOOM webinar.

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

     

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

    • Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
    • Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
    • Andrea Wilson Woods – Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days
    • Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir  
    • Kathleen Lockyer – The Broken Wing Dance — Love, loss, trauma and how nature led me back to my wild self
    • C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children 

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

    Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

    Andrea Wilson Woods

    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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    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 2022 JOURNEY Book Awards are open until the end of August. 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!

  • A SEEPING WOUND by Darryl Wimberley – Historical Fiction, Literary, Deep South

    A SEEPING WOUND by Darryl Wimberley – Historical Fiction, Literary, Deep South

    Here is a novel of utmost despair, but also the determination of the human spirit to do what is right and survive in the face of grave danger. Set in Northern Florida in the 1920s, A Seeping Wound by Darryl Wimberly centers on the nefarious activities of the Blue Turtle Turpentine Camp, one woman’s life in that camp, and a young veteran’s search for his missing sister.

    Still suffering from wounds inflicted during the Great War, Prescott (Scott) Hampton arrives in Cross City, Florida determined to find his sister Sarah, and her husband Franklin Breaux. The Hampton family has not heard from Sarah in months and Cross City was the last town she posted a letter from. Scott quickly discovers a deeply embedded system of graft involving the Bucknell Timber & Turpentine Company, local law enforcement, and the county judge. Judge Hiram Sheppard runs his courtroom exactly as he sees fit—no defendant is allowed to testify on their own behalf, no written records are taken, and all debtors are sent to the Blue Turtle Turpentine Camp.

    Scott suspects something along these lines may have happened to his sister and questions Judge Sheppard as to whether or not he can recall Sarah passing through his courtroom. The judge merely shrugs and advises Scott not to stick his nose where it doesn’t belong. After all, men have died for lesser things. Scott disregards this barely veiled threat and buys horses and gear to search for his sister himself in the Florida wilderness.

    Sarah Breaux, Scott’s sister, and her husband Frank are indeed at the Blue Turtle Turpentine Camp. They answered a newspaper advertisement and were conned into believing they would be getting involved in honest work, not indentured servitude, and are now suffering horribly. Frank has been thrown into The Box—a four-foot square, four-foot tall prison cell open to the elements and Sarah has no idea when he may be released. The camp is run by some of the foulest, most sadistic men in existence. The captain of the camp, however, is the worst of all.

    Captain Henry Riggs is an evil man. He is a ruthless, vengeful pedophile and he runs his turpentine camp like a cotton plantation in the old Deep South. Whippings are given out with ‘Black Auntie,’ men are forced to drink and gamble away what little wages they’ve made every Sunday, and the women of the camp are put on the ‘schedule.’ The schedule is a euphemistic term for the enforced prostitution almost every woman in the camp must endure. The captain, of course, takes his cut and leaves the women with hardly any money or medical care to see to their injuries or other needs.

    The one person who is able to see to the needs of the sick and injured is Martha LongFoot, the camp’s medicine woman. Half Muscogee, half African, she is a striking woman. She is repeatedly referred to as ‘injun’ and ‘it’ and other harsher epithets. She’s easily taller than most men, with bronze skin and long black hair…on the half of her face and head where she hasn’t been burned. The other side of her profile is horribly mutilated and has never fully healed from when she poured boiling rosin on her own face as a young teenager to avoid being forced into prostitution by Captain Riggs.

    Martha’s oath as the camp medicine woman to do no harm continually comes into conflict with the reality of the world she lives in. She is witness to the greatest atrocities inflicted on those who are forced to live and work in the Blue Turtle Turpentine Camp and she also must care for her jailors when they themselves are sick or injured. She takes her oath as a healer very seriously, despite multiple opportunities to just let the evil men who run the camp die of their wounds and illnesses.

    The fates of the Breaux and Martha connect as Scott circles ever closer to the camp and his sister’s whereabouts. Martha, Sarah, and Scott must each walk a very precarious line if they want to survive and ultimately must depend on each other to get out alive.

    A Seeping Wound is a thoroughly researched work of historical fiction told in alternating viewpoints. There are lush descriptions of the wilderness and the environment and these descriptions succeed in making the setting a character itself. This is a land and an era where black men and women are still viewed as nothing more than property and readers who are sensitive to racism, rape, and epithets may want to pick a different novel. A Seeping Wound represents all these darker issues with stark, unforgiving language.

    As is to be expected with a story as harsh and unrelenting as this one, the ending is bittersweet. Salvation arrives, but whether or not it is too late is up to the reader. This novel is sure to be appreciated by historical fiction fans given the copious and dedicated research that has gone into writing it, the diverse viewpoints, and the unusual setting.

    Reviewers Note: Not suitable for children or teenagers. This novel contains many emotional triggers and depicts graphic violence and rape.

    5 Stars! Best Book Chanticleer Book Reviews