Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees and Winning Books

Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 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


5 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2006

Winner - Contemporary Fiction

The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries
by Clyde W. Ford

List Price: $13.95
Midnight Ink (Oct 08, 2005)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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Winner - Debut Fiction


Winner - Fiction


Winner - Nonfiction


Finalist - Debut Fiction