Phillis Wheatley Book Awards Winning Books at the Harlem Book FairPhillis Wheatley Book Awards



The Phillis Wheatley Book Award winners are announced, annually, during the Harlem Book Fair.



The 2017 Phillis Wheatley Book Awards Winning Books


Winner – FictionClick for more detail about The Loss of All Lost Things by Amina Gautier
Winner – First FictionClick for more detail about Book of Addis: Cradled Embers by Brooke C. Obie
Winner – NonfictionClick for more detail about The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire by Karl Jacoby
Winner – PoetryClick for more detail about Cannibal by Safiya Sinclair
Hon. Men. – 1st Nonfiction Click for more detail about America’s Original Sin: A Collection of Essays on Racism and the Continuing Scourge of White Supremacy by K. Gerald Torrence
Hon. Men. – 1st Nonfiction Click for more detail about White Man’s Disease by Paul C. Thornton