The Nellie Bly Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Long Form Journalistic and Investigative Non-Fiction and Memoir. The Nellie Bly Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards  (CIBAs).

Chanticleer International Book Awards is looking for the best books featuring Social Science, Data Driven Reporting, Equality and Justice, Ethics, Human Rights, and Activists Groups. 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 2023 Nellie Bly Non-Fiction SHORT LIST to the 2023 Nellie Bly Book Awards FINALISTS. Entries below are now in competition for 2023 Nellie Bly 1st PLACE WINNERS AND GRAND PRIZE. 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 Four Points by Sheraton in beautiful Bellingham, Wash. sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are the FINALISTS in the 2023 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Journalistic Non-Fiction!

Join us in cheering on the following authors and their works in the 2023 CIBAs.

• Meghan Elizabeth Kallman & Josephine Ferorelli – The Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change
• Tessa Floreano – Italians in the Pacific Northwest
• Paul Kix – You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
• Roland Lazenby – Magic: The Life of Earvin “Magic” Johnson
• Maria C. Palmer and Ruthie Robbins – On the Rocks
• Johnson Nganga Mbugua – Martyrdom Christian, Kenya Chapter 1498 CE to 2020 CE Portuguese, Mau Mau, Al-shabaab-Related and other Martyrs also Biblical and Early Christian Martyrdom
• Lyndsie Bourgon – Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
• Stephen Watts – Searching for Charles: The Untold Legacy of an Immigrant’s American Adventure
• Qin Sun Stubis – Once Our Lives
• Trisha T. Pritikin – The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice
• Nanette J. Davis Ph.D. – Raging Currents: Mental Illness and Family
• Jonathan Geoffrey Dean – Salt & Light; The Complete Jesus

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The Grand Prize Winner for the 2022 NELLIE BLY Awards is

Saints and Soldiers: Inside Internet-Age Terrorism from Syria to the Capitol Siege
By Rita Katz

Click here to see the 2022 Nellie Bly Book Award Winners for Journalistic Non-Fiction

We are now accepting submissions into the 2024 Nellie Bly Book Awards for Overcoming Adversity in Non-Fiction & Memoir. The 2024 CIBA winners will be announced at CAC 2025. Please click here for more information.

See our Full List of Non-Fiction Divisions here!

Winners will be announced at the 2023 CIBA Awards Ceremony, sponsored by the 2024 Chanticleer Authors Conference April 18-21, 2024! Register Today!

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