Hurston/Wright Legacy Award2015

Given by Hurston/Wright Foundation

18 Works / 19 Items 6,692 Books 284 Reviews 4.0
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ is the first national award presented to published writers of African descent by the national community of Black writers. This award consists of prizes for the show more highest quality writing in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. show less
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All, Winner (80), Finalist (103), Nominee (385)
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All, 2023 (25), 2022 (21), 2021 (9), 2020 (21), 2019 (17), 2018 (19), 2017 (21), 2016 (16), 2015 (19), 2014 (18), 2013 (14), 2012 (14), 2011 (15), 2010 (16), 2009 (15), 2008 (18), 2007 (18), 2006 (18), 2005 (18), 2004 (17), 2003 (17), 2002 (18)

Winner 3

WorkCategoryYear
The Moor's Account by Laila LalamiFiction2015
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir by Elizabeth NunezNonfiction2015
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia RankinePoetry2015

Finalist 5

WorkCategoryYear
The Moor's Account by Laila LalamiFiction2015
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir by Elizabeth NunezNonfiction2015
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. BlowNonfiction2015
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr.Nonfiction2015
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia RankinePoetry2015

Nominee 19

WorkCategoryYear
The Moor's Account by Laila LalamiFiction2015
The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris AbaniFiction2015
Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael BeahFiction2015
An Untamed State by Roxane GayFiction2015
The Moor's Account by Laila LalamiFiction2015
The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa MohamedFiction2015
Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie YaniqueFiction2015
Not for Everyday Use: A Memoir by Elizabeth NunezNonfiction2015
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. BlowNonfiction2015
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr.Nonfiction2015
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle S. AllenNonfiction2015
Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) by Saladin AmbarNonfiction2015
Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America by Bob HerbertNonfiction2015
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia RankinePoetry2015
Revising the storm : poems by Geffrey DavisPoetry2015
We Didn't Know Any Gangsters by Brian GilmorePoetry2015
Digest (Stahlecker Selections) by Gregory PardloPoetry2015
The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon: Poems (Penguin Poets) by Willie PerdomoPoetry2015
King Me by Roger ReevesPoetry2015

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The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ is the first national award presented to published writers of African descent by the national community of Black writers. This award consists of prizes for the highest quality writing in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. (English, Member-written)
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards annually honor published works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black writers published in the previous year. Recognized as a singular award from the Black writing community to its peers, the Legacy Awards each year recognizes members of the national and international Black writing community. (English, Member-written)

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