Major Book Awards and Awards that Celebrate Writers of African Descent

Carter G. Woodson Award

Coretta Scott King Award

BCALA Literary Award

Newbery Medal

Ezra Jack Keats Award

Caldecott Medal

National Book Awards

American Book Award

Pulitzer Prize

The Kirkus Prize

Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Children’s Africana Book Awards

Phillis Wheatley Book Award

Ernest J. Gaines Award
for Literary Excellence

NAACP Image Award

Additional Awards

African American Literary Awards Show

Essence Literary Award

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award