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 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 Daffodil: A Mother’s Journey by DeMetria Hayes
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant by Thandisizwe Chimurenga
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 Dear Diary, The Bullying Won’t Stop UNCUT by Delicia B. Davis
Finalist – Young Adult Readers Click for more detail about Willow by Tonya Cherie Hegamin
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