Troy Posted August 30, 2013 Report Share Posted August 30, 2013 For Immediate Release August 30, 2013 Contact: Elizabeth Williams Phone: 301-459-2108 Email: info@hurstonwright.org ANNOUNCING THE 2013 HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD HONOREES Join the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation to honor outstanding Black published writers in the categories of fiction, nonfiction and poetry at the 12th Annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The ceremony will be at the Carnegie Library at 801 K Street, NW (Mount Vernon Square), Washington, D.C. on Friday, October 25, 2013, at 7:00 p.m. The 2013 Legacy Awards Ceremony will also honor the following writers: North Star Recipient Natasha Trethewey Ella Baker Recipient Isabel Wilkerson Ella Baker Recipient Wil Haygood Wil Haygood, prize-winning biographer and author of the article that inspired the film THE BUTLER: A Witness to History Natasha Trethewey, the U.S. Poet Laureate, professor and author of Thrall Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns Noted presenters will include: Sonia Sanchez, award winning poet, activist, scholar, teacher and Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Known World James E. Clyburn, U.S. Representative of South Carolina Lucy Anne Hurston, the niece of literary luminary and Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, is the author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston Teri Ellen Cross Davis, the poetry coordinator at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. Dolen Perkins-Valdez, author of the New York Times Bestseller Wench: A Novel will serve as Mistress of Ceremony. Individual tickets are $125. Sponsorship opportunities are available. Purchase your ticket(s) today! ### Click here for a printable announcement 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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