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 2016 Phillis Wheatley Book Awards Winning Books


Winner – FictionClick for more detail about The Secret Kept by Herbert C. Robinson
Winner – First FictionClick for more detail about The Garden of Unfortunate Souls by Eddie Mark
Winner – First NonfictionClick for more detail about The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harris
Winner – NonfictionClick for more detail about One Righteous Man: Samuel Battle and the Shattering of the Color Line in New York by Arthur Browne
Winner – PoetryClick for more detail about In This House by Loretta Diane Walker
Finalist – Fiction Click for more detail about Ella Pruitt by Doug Cooper Spencer
Finalist – Fiction Click for more detail about The Summer of my Fifteenth Year by Geri Spencer Hunter
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Daughter Of The Missing by Saharra K. Sandhu
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Provenance: A Novel by Donna Drew Sawyer
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Severed: A Novel by VL Towler
Finalist – First Fiction Click for more detail about Bibsy by Brenda Ross
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom (New Black Studies Series) by Sonja D Williams
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
Finalist – First Nonfiction Click for more detail about Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Eric Walrond: A Life in the Harlem Renaissance and the Transatlantic Caribbean by James Davis
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship by A Yemisi Jimoh and Françoise Hamlin
Finalist – Nonfiction Click for more detail about Jimmie Lee & James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America by Steve Fiffer and Adar Cohen
Finalist – Poetry Click for more detail about Lighting the Shadow by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Finalist – Poetry Click for more detail about Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts