The 2021 JOURNEY Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Narrative Non-Fiction – CIBAs Short List 2021

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 the 2021 Journey Non-Fiction Long List to the 2021 Journey Book Awards 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 SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2021 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

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
• Rosie McMahan – Fortunate Daughter: A Memoir of Reconciliation
• Marcie Maxfield – Em’s Awful Good Fortune
• William Johnson – Snow Blind: Recovering After the Random Shooting
• 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 Memoir
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Tammy Green – Living Without Skin: Everything I Never Knew About Fierce Vulnerability 
• 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

If you entered your work into the 2021 Journey Book Awards and do not see it on the list, please check our other non-fiction divisions, as the judges may have deemed that the work belongs in a different division. The many works that have been entered into the Journey Book Awards should have trigger warnings. This is why the judges requested the new division of the Hearten Book Awards for inspirational/uplifting works that overcome adversity. Other works may have moved to other divisions such as Nellie Bly or the Shorts if they did not meet word count requirements.

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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.

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