The Hearten Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of Inspiring and Uplifting Non-Fiction and Memoirs. 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 from the 2024 Hearten Non-Fiction LONG LIST to the 2024 Hearten Book Awards SHORT LIST. Entries below are now in competition for 2024 Hearten Semi-Finalists. Finalists will be selected from the Semi-Finalists. All FINALISTS will be announced and recognized at the Chanticleer Authors Conference (CAC25).

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 5th, 2025 in beautiful Bellingham, WA sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference. 

These titles are in the running for the SEMI-FINALISTS of the 2024 Hearten Book Awards novel competition for Uplifting and Inspiring Non-Fiction!

Join us in celebrating the Long List authors and their works in the 2024 CIBAs.

• Elizabeth Fulgaro – Learning to Love (Not Loathe) Me
• Linda M. Lockwood – Sky Ranch: Reared in the High Country
• Genét Simone – Teaching in the Dark
• Wendy B. Correa – My Pretty Baby: A Memoir of Seeking Truth and Finding Healing
• Jenell M. Jones M.Ed. – Shattered
• David Hutton – Drums of a Distant Tribe
• Douglas Green – The Teachings of Shirelle: Life Lessons from a Divine Knucklehead
• Dr George Ackerman – A Son’s Journey from Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver to Advocate
• Ingrid McCarthy – I Stood Among the Ruins and Cried
• Kasey Claytor – Finding the Light
• Jia Apple – The Tell
• Olivia Goodreau – But She Looks Fine
• Etsuko Diamond Miyagi – DIAMOND: The Memoir of a Lost Daughter of Japan
• Lynne Spriggs O’Connor – Elk Love: A Montana Memoir
• Jane Kim Yu – Journey of Awakening and Higher Consciousness
• L.A. Witt – I Changed My Mind: My Journey from Infertile to Childfree
• Mimi Zieman – Tap Dancing on Everest
• Liz Alterman – Sad Sacked
• Rachael Siddoway and Sonja Wasden – An Impossible Life: A True Story of Hope and Mental Illness
• Christina Ford – In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt In The Pursuit of Happily Ever After
• Glenda Goodrich – Solo Passage: 13 Quests, 13 Questions
• Ginelle Testa – Make a Home Out of You
• Jennifer Cramer-Miller – Incurable Optimist: Living with Illness and Chronic Hope
• Susan Bloch – Travels with my Grief
• Mark Steven Porro – A Cup of Tea on the Commode: My Multi-Tasking Adventures of Caring for Mom. And How I Survived to Tell the Tale
• Laura Hall – Affliction: Growing Up With A Closeted Gay Dad
• Susan Cole – Holding Fast: A Memoir of Sailing, Love, and Loss
• Louise Privette and Tristan Peigné – Dancing Through Life: A Memoir
• Ben LeBoutillier – Practical Advice for a Better World
• Kathleen Watt – REARRANGED: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed
• Tony Jeton Selimi – The Unfakeable Code®

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

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The Grand Prize Winner for the CIBA 2023 Hearten Awards is:

Running Away From The Circus

By Nove Meyers

See the full list of 2023 First Place Hearten Winners here!

We are now accepting submissions into the 2025 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring and Uplifting Narrative Non-Fiction.

Please click here for more information.

Winners will be announced at the 2024 CIBA Awards Ceremony that is sponsored by the 2025 Chanticleer Authors Conference.

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