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On December 8, 2022, we came together for the 2022 CHIRBy Awards, co-presented by StoryStudio Chicago! Now in its seventh year, the CHIRBy Awards is our annual celebration of the Chicago literary community where we honor the best Chicago-focused fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and short essays.
Congratulations to this year’s winners and to all of our incredible finalists!
(Read the shortlist here)
Against Heaven
By Kemi Alabi
Graywolf Press
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
By Erika L. Sánchez
Viking
The School For Good Mothers
By Jessamine Chan
Simon & Schuster
“It’s quiet around here until it’s not”
By Salem Collo-Julin
Chicago Reader
This year the Adam Morgan Literary Leadership Award went to Director of Seminary Co-op Bookstores Jeff Deutsch for his long-time advocacy of independent bookselling and the Chicago literary community, as well as his work to republish Leon Forrest’s Divine Days.
A huge thank you to this year’s judges, which included many of the Chicago Review of Books‘s editorial staff and representatives from Chicago’s independent bookstores:
Chair
Michael Welch, Editor-In-Chief
- Rebecca George, Volumes Bookcafe
- Thomas Flynn, And Other Stories
- Jeff Deutsch, Seminary Co-op and 57th Street Books
- Sarah Hollenbeck, Women & Children First
- Stephanie Kitchen, City Lit Books
- Suzy Takacs, The Book Cellar
- Javier Ramirez, Exile in Bookville
- Dana Dunham, Managing Director
- Sara Batkie, CHIRB Editor-at-Large
- Adam Morgan, CHIRB Founding Editor
- Jen St. Jude, Editor-at-Large
- Sarah Blakley-Cartwright, CHIRB Publishing Director
- Sara Cutaia, Editor-in-Chief at Arcturus Magazine and CHIRB Editor-at-Large
- Mandana Chaffa, CHIRB Editor-at-Large
- Christina Drill – CHIRB Social Media Editor
- Cait Stout, CHIRB Daily Editor
- Victor Ladis Schultz, CHIRB Daily Editor
- Rachel León, CHIRB Daily Editor
- Elizabeth McNeill, CHIRB Daily Editor
- Farooq Chaudhry, CHIRB Daily Editor
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