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 2023 Journey Non-Fiction entries to the 2022 Journey Book Awards LONG LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 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 (CAC24).

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 20th, 2024 at the luxurious Hotel Bellwether in Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SHORT LIST of the 2023 Journey Book Awards novel competition for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the Long List authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

• Maria C. Palmer and Ruthie Robbins – On the Rocks
  
• Frederick Douglass Reynolds – Saint Bloodbath
  
• Stephen Watts – Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant’s American Adventure
• Qin Sun Stubis – Once Our Lives
• Rebecca Olmstead – Loved So Much It Hurts: Purpose in the Pain
• Tina Davidson – Let Your Heart Be Broken, Life and Music of a Classical Composer
• Hollie Stuart – I Can See for Miles
  
• Trevor Greene – March Forth: The Inspiring True Story Of A Canadian Soldier’s Journey Of Love, Hope and Survival
• Cory Mortensen – The Buddha and the Bee
• Kyle Campbell – Beyond Belief: How Living with a Brain Stem Tumor brought Faith and Purpose to Life
• Cathryn Vogeley – I Need To Tell You
• Lori Lee Peters – God, the Mafia, My Dad and Me
• Cort Casady – Not Your Father’s America
• Francesca Miracola – I Got It From Here
• Patricia Angeles – Midpoint: A Memoir
• Francesca Grossman – Not Weakness: Navigating the Culture of Chronic Pain
• Sara Alvarado – Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta
• Joel Harris – Searching for Steve
• Leslie Ferguson – When I Was Her Daughter
• Kathy Sechrist – Success Is The Best Revenge
• Antonia Deignan – Underwater Daughter: A Memoir of Survival and Healing
• Phyllis Dyson – Among Silent Echoes: A Memoir of Trauma and Resilience
• Andrew Saltarelli – Leaving Home
• Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
• Aurita Maldonado – The Zen of Dancing in the Rain: Becoming One with the Storm
• Barbara Wolf Terao – Reconfigured: A Memoir
• Trisha T Pritiin – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices From the Fight for Atomic Justice
• T.C. Fuller – Painting Over Rust: Stories From a 20-Year Odyssey in the FBI
• Sarah Martin – Dear Psychosis
• Julie Morrison – Barbed: A Memoir
• Jarie Bolander – Ride or Die: Loving Through Tragedy, A Husband’s Memoir
• Mikky Eagle – Transcending to Power – the Freya Files : A Survivor’s Memoir Uncovering the Aftermath of Child Sexual-Abuse
• Erika Shepard – Trans-Formations From Field Boots to Sensible Heels
• Karen DeBonis – Growth: A Mother, Her Son, and the Brain Tumor They Survived
• Mike Nixon – Life Travel And The People In Between

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

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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 2022 JOURNEY Awards is:

A Fraction Stronger 

by Mark Berridge 

PROMOTING OUR AUTHORS! 

The 2023 JOURNEY Book Awards winners will be announced at CAC24 on April 20, 2024. Save the date for CAC24, scheduled April 18-21, 2024, our 12 year Conference Anniversary!

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