Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees and Winning Books
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ honors the best in Black literature. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers. Fiction, debut fiction, nonfiction, and poetry honorees are selected in a juried competition. Each October, the award winners are celebrated during the Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards that draws hundreds of literary stars, readers, representatives of the publishing industry, the arts, media, politics, and academia. Learn more at the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s website
19 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2021
Winner - Debut Fiction
Remembrance
by Rita Woods
List Price: $27.99Forge (Jan 21, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
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Winner - Fiction
Telephone
by Percival Everett
List Price: $17.00Graywolf Press (May 05, 2020)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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Winner - Nonfiction
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
by Marcia Chatelain
List Price: $28.95Liveright Publishing Corporation (Jan 07, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Winner - Poetry
Seeing the Body: Poems
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
List Price: $26.95W. W. Norton & Company (Jun 09, 2020)
Poetry, Hardcover, 144 pages
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Finalist - Fiction
The Freedom Artist
by Ben Okri
List Price: $30.95Akashic Books (Feb 04, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Finalist - Nonfiction
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
by Deirdre Mask
List Price: $26.99St. Martin’s Press (Apr 14, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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Finalist - Poetry
Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
by Carl Phillips
List Price: $23.00Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Mar 03, 2020)
Poetry, Hardcover, 64 pages
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Finalist - Poetry
Fantasia for the Man in Blue
by Tommye Blount
List Price: $16.95Four Way Books (Mar 02, 2020)
Poetry, Paperback, 152 pages
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Nominee - Debut Fiction
The Coyotes of Carthage
by Steven Wright
Ecco (Jan 12, 2021)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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Nominee - Debut Fiction
Black Sunday
by Tola Rotimi Abraham
List Price: $26.00Catapult (Feb 04, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
by Alice Randall
List Price: Amistad (Jul 06, 2021)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
Book of the Little Axe
by Lauren Francis-Sharma
List Price: $26.00Atlantic Monthly Press (May 12, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Nominee - Fiction
These Bodies
by Morgan Christie
Tolsun Books (Dec 08, 2020)
Fiction, Paperback, 244 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey
List Price: $27.99Ecco (Jul 28, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
by Ainissa Ramirez
MIT Press (Apr 06, 2021)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 328 pages
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Nominee - Nonfiction
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
by Ijeoma Oluo
List Price: $28.00Seal Press (Dec 01, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems
by Erica Hunt
Nightboat Books (Nov 10, 2020)
Poetry, Paperback, 208 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
by John Murillo
Four Way Books (Mar 02, 2020)
Poetry, Paperback, 88 pages
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Nominee - Poetry
White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
by Kiki Petrosino
Sarabande Books (May 05, 2020)
Poetry, Paperback, 112 pages
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