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


20 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2020

Winner - Debut Fiction

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Africaville
by Jeffrey Colvin

Publication Date: Dec 01, 2020
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062913715
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp

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Winner - Fiction

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A Tall History of Sugar
by Curdella Forbes

    Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
    List Price: $28.95
    Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781617757518
    Imprint: Akashic Books
    Publisher: Akashic Books
    Parent Company: Akashic Books

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    Winner - Nonfiction

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    Solitary
    by Albert Woodfox

    Publication Date: Dec 03, 2019
    List Price: $18.00
    Format: Paperback, 448 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780802148308
    Imprint: Grove Press
    Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
    Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.

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    Winner - Poetry

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    Exiles of Eden
    by Ladan Osman

    Publication Date: May 07, 2019
    List Price: $16.95
    Format: Paperback, 128 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9781566895446
    Imprint: Coffee House Press
    Publisher: Coffee House Press
    Parent Company: Coffee House Press

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    Finalist - Fiction

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    Gingerbread: A Novel
    by Helen Oyeyemi

    Publication Date: Mar 05, 2019
    List Price: $27.00
    Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781594634659
    Imprint: Riverhead Books
    Publisher: Penguin Random House
    Parent Company: Bertelsmann

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    Finalist - Fiction

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    The World Doesn’t Require You: Stories
    by Rion Amilcar Scott

    Publication Date: Aug 20, 2019
    List Price: $25.95
    Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781631495380
    Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
    Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
    Parent Company: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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    Finalist - Nonfiction

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    Think Black
    by Clyde W. Ford

    Publication Date: Sep 17, 2019
    List Price: $25.99
    Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780062890566
    Imprint: Amistad
    Publisher: HarperCollins
    Parent Company: News Corp

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    Finalist - Nonfiction

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    Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
    by Saidiya Hartman

      Publication Date: Jan 14, 2020
      List Price: $17.95
      Format: Paperback, 464 pages
      Classification: Nonfiction
      ISBN13: 9780393357622
      Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
      Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
      Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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      Finalist - Poetry

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      & More Black
      by t’ai freedom ford

        Publication Date: Jul 01, 2019
        List Price: $18.00
        Format: Paperback, 104 pages
        Classification: Poetry
        ISBN13: 9780999501214
        Imprint: Augury Books
        Publisher: Brooklyn Arts Press
        Parent Company: Brooklyn Arts Press

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        Finalist - Poetry

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        Syncope
        by Asiya Wadud

        Publication Date: Sep 01, 2019
        List Price: $17.00
        Format: Paperback, 80 pages
        Classification: Poetry
        ISBN13: 9781946433299
        Imprint: Ugly Duckling Presse
        Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
        Parent Company: Ugly Duckling Presse

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        Nominee - Debut Fiction

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        Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar
        by Ron A. Austin

        Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
        List Price: $18.00
        Format: Paperback, 172 pages
        Classification: Fiction
        ISBN13: 9781732039919
        Imprint: Southeast Missouri State University Press
        Publisher: Southeast Missouri State University Press
        Parent Company: Southeast Missouri State University

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        Nominee - Debut Fiction

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        As a River
        by Sion Dayson

        Publication Date: Sep 03, 2019
        List Price: $17.99
        Format: Paperback, 218 pages
        Classification: Fiction
        ISBN13: 9781938841101
        Imprint: Jaded Ibis Press
        Publisher: Jaded Ibis Press
        Parent Company: Jaded Ibis Press, LLC

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        Nominee - Fiction

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        The Revisioners
        by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

        Publication Date: Nov 05, 2019
        List Price: $25.00
        Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
        Classification: Fiction
        ISBN13: 9781640092587
        Imprint: Counterpoint
        Publisher: Counterpoint
        Parent Company: Counterpoint

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        Nominee - Fiction

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        Patsy
        by Nicole Dennis-Benn

        Publication Date: Jun 04, 2019
        List Price: $26.95
        Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
        Classification: Fiction
        ISBN13: 9781631495632
        Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
        Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
        Parent Company: Liveright Publishing Corporation

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        Nominee - Nonfiction

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        Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
        by Ben Crump

        Publication Date: Oct 15, 2019
        List Price: $26.99
        Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
        Classification: Nonfiction
        ISBN13: 9780062375094
        Imprint: Amistad
        Publisher: HarperCollins
        Parent Company: News Corp

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        Nominee - Nonfiction

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        What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
        by Damon Young

        Publication Date: Mar 26, 2019
        List Price: $27.99
        Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
        Classification: Nonfiction
        ISBN13: 9780062684301
        Imprint: Ecco
        Publisher: HarperCollins
        Parent Company: News Corp

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        Nominee - Nonfiction

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        We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood
        by Dani McClain

        Publication Date: Apr 02, 2019
        List Price: $26.00
        Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
        Classification: Nonfiction
        ISBN13: 9781568588544
        Imprint: Bold Type Books
        Publisher: Hachette Book Group
        Parent Company: Lagardère Group

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        Nominee - Poetry

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        Library of Small Catastrophes
        by Alison C. Rollins

          Publication Date: Apr 23, 2019
          List Price: $16.00
          Format: Paperback, 96 pages
          Classification: Poetry
          ISBN13: 9781556595394
          Imprint: Copper Canyon Press
          Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
          Parent Company: Copper Canyon Press

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          Nominee - Poetry

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          1919
          by Eve L. Ewing

          Publication Date: Jun 04, 2019
          List Price: $36.00
          Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
          Classification: Poetry
          ISBN13: 9781608466023
          Imprint: Haymarket Books
          Publisher: Haymarket Books
          Parent Company: Haymarket Books

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          Nominee - Poetry

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          Night Angler
          by Geffrey Davis

          Publication Date: Apr 30, 2019
          List Price: $17.00
          Format: Paperback, 112 pages
          Classification: Poetry
          ISBN13: 9781942683780
          Imprint: BOA Editions
          Publisher: BOA Editions
          Parent Company: BOA Editions Ltd.

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