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

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



The 2015 Phillis Wheatley Book Awards Winning Books


Winner – FictionClick for more detail about Land Of Love And Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique
Winner – First FictionClick for more detail about Born at Dawn by Nigeria Lockley
Winner – First NonfictionClick for more detail about Regina Anderson Andrews, Harlem Renaissance Librarian by Ethelene Whitmire
Winner – NonfictionClick for more detail about A Light Shines in Harlem: New York’s First Charter School and the Movement It Led by Mary C. Bounds
Winner – PoetryClick for more detail about City of Eternal Spring (Pitt Poetry Series) by Afaa Michael Weaver
Winner – Young Adult ReadersClick for more detail about The Madman of Piney Woods by Christopher Paul Curtis
Winner – Young Readers Click for more detail about Granny’s Helper by Selma Jackson
Finalist – Fiction Click for more detail about Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction by Teju Cole
Finalist – Fiction Click for more detail about Glorious Sunset by Ava Bleu
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Adinkrahene: Fear of a Black Planet by J. A. Faulkerson
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Shifting Allegiances: A Nigerian’s story of Nigeria, America and Culture Shock by Amaka Lily
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant by Thandisizwe Chimurenga
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about Daffodil: A Mother’s Journey by DeMetria Hayes
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about How To Uncover, Heal & Release Painful Life Experiences: Living a Vocal, Valued and Victorious Life by Jo Anne Meekins
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Breaking Ground: My Life in Medicine by David Chanoff and Louis Sullivan
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Businessman First: Remembering Henry G. Parks, Jr. 1916-1989 Capturing the Life of a Businessman Who by Maurice W. Dorsey
Finalist – Poetry Click for more detail about Tears For My Ancestors (Volume 1) by Malik Canty
Finalist – Poetry Click for more detail about Brief Evidence of Heaven: Poems from the Life of Anna Murray Douglass by M. Nzadi Keita
Finalist – Young Adult Readers Click for more detail about Willow by Tonya Cherie Hegamin
Finalist – Young Adult Readers Click for more detail about Dear Diary, The Bullying Won’t Stop UNCUT by Delicia B. Davis
Finalist – Young Readers  Click for more detail about Tate and His Historic Dream by Bernard C. Turner and Michelle Duster
Finalist – Young Readers  Click for more detail about Midnight and the Man Who Had No Tears by Tiffany Golden

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