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


21 Books Honored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation in 2021

Winner - Debut Fiction

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Remembrance
by Rita Woods

Publication Date: Jan 21, 2020
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781250298454
Imprint: Forge
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group


Winner - Fiction

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Telephone
by Percival Everett

Publication Date: May 05, 2020
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781644450222
Imprint: Graywolf Press
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Parent Company: Graywolf Press


Winner - Nonfiction

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Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
by Marcia Chatelain

Publication Date: Jan 07, 2020
List Price: $28.95
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781631493942
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Parent Company: Liveright Publishing Corporation


Winner - Poetry

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Seeing the Body: Poems
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Publication Date: Jun 09, 2020
List Price: $26.95
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781324005667
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.


Finalist - Fiction

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Ring Shout
by P. Djèlí Clark

Publication Date: Oct 13, 2020
List Price: $19.99
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781250767028
Imprint: Tordotcom
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group


Finalist - Fiction

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The Freedom Artist
by Ben Okri

Publication Date: Feb 04, 2020
List Price: $30.95
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617757914
Imprint: Akashic Books
Publisher: Akashic Books
Parent Company: Akashic Books


Finalist - Nonfiction

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Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
by Tabitha Brown

    Publication Date: Jan 14, 2020
    List Price: $35.00
    Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780674737570
    Imprint: Belknap Press
    Publisher: Harvard University Press
    Parent Company: Harvard University


    Finalist - Nonfiction

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    The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
    by Deirdre Mask

    Publication Date: Apr 14, 2020
    List Price: $26.99
    Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9781250134769
    Imprint: St. Martin’s Press
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
    Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group


    Finalist - Poetry

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    Pale Colors in a Tall Field: Poems
    by Carl Phillips

    Publication Date: Mar 03, 2020
    List Price: $23.00
    Format: Hardcover, 64 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9780374229054
    Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
    Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group


    Finalist - Poetry

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    Fantasia for the Man in Blue
    by Tommye Blount

    Publication Date: Mar 02, 2020
    List Price: $16.95
    Format: Paperback, 152 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9781945588495
    Imprint: Four Way Books
    Publisher: Four Way Books
    Parent Company: Four Way Books


    Nominee - Debut Fiction

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    The Coyotes of Carthage
    by Steven Wright

      Publication Date: Jan 12, 2021
      List Price: $16.99
      Format: Paperback, 320 pages
      Classification: Fiction
      ISBN13: 9780062951687
      Imprint: Ecco
      Publisher: HarperCollins
      Parent Company: News Corp


      Nominee - Debut Fiction

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      Black Sunday
      by Tola Rotimi Abraham

      Publication Date: Feb 04, 2020
      List Price: $26.00
      Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
      Classification: Fiction
      ISBN13: 9781948226561
      Imprint: Catapult
      Publisher: Catapult
      Parent Company: Catapult


      Nominee - Fiction

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      Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
      by Alice Randall

      Publication Date: Jul 06, 2021
      List Price: $16.99 Now Only $6.99!
      Format: Paperback, 368 pages
      Classification: Fiction
      ISBN13: 9780062970862
      Imprint: Amistad
      Publisher: HarperCollins
      Parent Company: News Corp


      Nominee - Fiction

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      Book of the Little Axe
      by Lauren Francis-Sharma

      Publication Date: May 12, 2020
      List Price: $26.00
      Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
      Classification: Fiction
      ISBN13: 9780802129369
      Imprint: Atlantic Monthly Press
      Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
      Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.


      Nominee - Fiction

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      These Bodies
      by Morgan Christie

        Publication Date: Dec 08, 2020
        List Price: $19.00
        Format: Paperback, 244 pages
        Classification: Fiction
        ISBN13: 9781948800365
        Imprint: Tolsun Books
        Publisher: Tolsun Publishing
        Parent Company: Tolsun Publishing, Inc.


        Nominee - Nonfiction

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        Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
        by Natasha Trethewey

        Publication Date: Jul 28, 2020
        List Price: $27.99
        Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
        Classification: Nonfiction
        ISBN13: 9780062248572
        Imprint: Ecco
        Publisher: HarperCollins
        Parent Company: News Corp


        Nominee - Nonfiction

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        The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another
        by Ainissa Ramirez

          Publication Date: Apr 06, 2021
          List Price: $17.95
          Format: Paperback, 328 pages
          Classification: Nonfiction
          ISBN13: 9780262542265
          Imprint: The MIT Press
          Publisher: The MIT Press
          Parent Company: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


          Nominee - Nonfiction

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          Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
          by Ijeoma Oluo

          Publication Date: Dec 01, 2020
          List Price: $28.00
          Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
          Classification: Nonfiction
          ISBN13: 9781580059510
          Imprint: Seal Press
          Publisher: Seal Press
          Parent Company: Seal Press


          Nominee - Poetry

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          Jump the Clock: New & Selected Poems
          by Erica Hunt

            Publication Date: Nov 10, 2020
            List Price: $19.95
            Format: Paperback, 208 pages
            Classification: Poetry
            ISBN13: 9781643620244
            Imprint: Nightboat Books
            Publisher: Nightboat Books
            Parent Company: Nightboat Books


            Nominee - Poetry

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            Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry
            by John Murillo

              Publication Date: Mar 02, 2020
              List Price: $16.95
              Format: Paperback, 88 pages
              Classification: Poetry
              ISBN13: 9781945588471
              Imprint: Four Way Books
              Publisher: Four Way Books
              Parent Company: Four Way Books


              Nominee - Poetry

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              White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia
              by Kiki Petrosino

                Publication Date: May 05, 2020
                List Price: $15.95
                Format: Paperback, 112 pages
                Classification: Poetry
                ISBN13: 9781946448545
                Imprint: Sarabande Books
                Publisher: Sarabande Books
                Parent Company: Sarabande Books