The 2021 HEARTEN Book Awards for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction – CIBAs Long List 2021

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 2021 Hearten Non-Fiction entries to the 2021 Hearten Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2021 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 (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 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspirational Non-Fiction!

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

• Rick Avery with Tom Bleecker – A Life at Risk
• Mark Allen – Based on a True (Traumatic) Brain History: a Short Memoir
• Bruce Rowe, MD – Everything Under the Sun: A Family Doctor’s Reflections on Life, Love, Loss and Renewed Hope in Medicine
• Lisa Smith Molinari – The Meat and Potatoes of Life: My True Lit Com  
• Cheryl Troxel – The Inexplicable Gypsy
• Jean-Philippe Soule – I, Tarzan: Against All Odds
• Wendy Sanford – These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship across Race and Class
• Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
• Heather Haldeman – Kids and Cocktails Don’t Mix: A Memoir
• Burl Harmon – Combat Missions
• Jeremy Rhyne – His Name is Cwiz
• Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Black, White, and Gray All Over; a Black Man’s Odyssey in Life and Law Enforcement
• Meredith Wargo – DAWGS: A True Story of Lost Animals and the Kids Who Rescued Them 
• George Farag – Unbecoming My Father’s Son: A Memoir
• Carolyn Lee Arnold – Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir
• Leah Witman Moore – Loving You Big: Embracing the Unexpected
• Shelby Wagner – Learning to Dance in the Rain II
• Cheng Wang – From Tea to Coffee 
• Rod Baker – Unexpected Treasures – Running a Mental Health Nonprofit
• Linda Jamsen – Odyssey of Love: A Memoir of Seeking and Finding 
• Evelyn LaTorre – Love in Any Language
• Meg Nocero – Butterfly Awakens: A Memoir of Transformation Through Grief
• Jim Enderle – Fight, Flight, or Freeze: A Love Story
• Richard Jespers – That I Do Not Lose You: One Man’s Family Roots
• Robert E. Lofthouse – Honor Through Sacrifice
• Judith Briles – When God Says NO – Revealing the YES When Adversity and Loss Are Present
• David Soh Poh Huat – Care Giving Gift of Unconditional Love
• Jane Eden – Nail Soup
• Allison Hong Merrill – Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops
• Julie Ryan McGue – Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging
• C.L. Olsen – The Home for Friendless Children
• Fred Guttenberg – Find the Helpers
• Meghan Caughey – Mud Flower
• Kim Fairley – Shooting Out the Lights: A Memoir
• George Kohn – Vector to Destiny: Journey of a Vietnam F-4 Fighter Pilot
• Sara Easterly – Searching for Mom: A Memoir
• Linda Morrow – Heart of This Family – Lessons in Down Syndrome and Love 
• Lisa Dailey – Square Up: 50,000 miles in search of a way home 
• Betty Jean Craige – Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo
• Audrey Stelzig and Norman L. Johnson, MD – Grandpa, Were You Ever a Kid
• Judy Taylor – The Boy Who Wrote Poetry
• Abe Streep – Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana #2
• Dr Kate Dolan – Beating Drug Addiction in Tehran: a Women’s clinic
• Colonel Van H. Slayden, USAF, with Patrecia Slayden Hollis – Normandy to Nazi Surrender, Firsthand Account of a P-47 Thunderbolt Pilot
• Richard Lui – Enough About Me: The Unexpected Power of Selflessness
• Labar Laskie – Above the Din: Diary of the HepC Wonder Drugs 
• Bedri Cag Cetin Ph.D. – Sacred Life: Healing from the Virus in Consciousness
• Carole Bumpus – Searching for Family and Traditions at the French Table, Book Three
• Marcus A. Nannini – Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: Capture of the Nazi Who Put Adolph Hitler into Power  
• Rosemary Keevil – The Art of Losing It: A Memoir of Grief and Addiction
• Gerri Almand – Running from Covid in our RV Cocoon

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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 HEARTEN Awards is Judy Gaman for Love, Life, and Lucille

Click here to see the 2020 Hearten Book Award Winners for Uplifting Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2022 Hearten Book Awards for Uplifting and Inspiring 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.

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