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Congrats to the Winners of the 2021 CHIRBy Awards!

Congrats to the Winners of the 2021 CHIRBy Awards!

  • Here are your winners of the sixth annual CHIRBy Awards!

On December 9, 2021, we celebrated the 2021 CHIRBy Awards, co-presented by StoryStudio Chicago. Now in its sixth year, the CHIRBy Awards is a celebration of the Chicago literary community that honors the best Chicago-focused fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and short essays.

Congratulations to this year’s winners and to our incredible finalists!

(You can read the shortlist here)

Poetry:

Wolf Lamb Bomb
By Aviya Kushner
Orison Books

Nonfiction:

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
By Dawn Turner
Simon & Schuster

Essay/Short Story: 

“The climate crisis haunts Chicago’s Future. A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake”
By Dan Egan
The New York Times

Fiction:

The Upstairs House
By Julia Fine
Harper

The Adam Morgan Literary Citizen Award:

See Also

This year the Adam Morgan Literary Citizen Award went to Kathleen Rooney for her work with Poems While You Wait and Rose Metal Press.

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, CHIRBy Awards Director

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