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Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

Literary award for African American writers


Summary

Literary award for African American writers

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Debut fiction

YearAuthorWork200220032004200520062007200820162017201820202021202220232024
David Anthony DurhamGabriel's Story
Tayari JonesLeaving Atlanta
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus
Chris AbaniGraceLanddate=2005-11-04title=Hurston/Wright Legacies for the Yearurl=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=86access-date=2024-04-29website=Shelf Awarenessarchive-date=December 9, 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231209021914/https://shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=86url-status=live }}
Denise NicholasFreshwater Roaddate=2006-11-07title=Awards: Goncourt, Hurston/Wright, Thurberurl=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=316access-date=2024-04-29website=Shelf Awarenessarchive-date=October 1, 2017archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001224947/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=316url-status=live }}
Aminatta FornaAncestor Stones
Kwame DawesShe's Gone
Sanderia FayeMourner's Benchlast=Lehmannfirst=Bruchdate=2016-10-25title=Professor Vievee Francis' 'Forest Primeval' wins Hurston/Wright Legacy Awardurl=https://english.dartmouth.edu/news/2016/10/professor-vievee-francis-forest-primeval-wins-hurstonwright-legacy-awardaccess-date=2024-04-29website=Dartmouth Collegelanguage=enarchive-date=May 28, 2024archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240528004728/https://english.dartmouth.edu/news/2016/10/professor-vievee-francis-forest-primeval-wins-hurstonwright-legacy-awardurl-status=live }}
JJ Amaworo WilsonDamnificadosdate=2017-11-07title=Awards: Hurston/Wright Legacy; World Fantasy; FT/McKinsey Business Bookurl=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3123access-date=2024-04-29website=Shelf Awarenessarchive-date=November 29, 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129185133/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3123url-status=live }}
Ladee HubbardThe Talented Ribkins
Jeffrey ColvinAfricavillelast=Sakafirst=Rasheedadate=2020-10-19title=Here are the 2020 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award winners.url=https://lithub.com/here-are-the-2020-hurston-wright-legacy-award-winners/access-date=2024-04-29website=Literary Hublanguage=en-USarchive-date=September 29, 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929224112/https://lithub.com/here-are-the-2020-hurston-wright-legacy-award-winners/url-status=live }}
Rita WoodsRemembrance
This Lifedate=2022-10-28title=Shara McCallum wins the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetryurl=https://www.peepaltreepress.com/blog/news-authors/shara-mccallum-wins-2022-hurstonwright-legacy-award-poetryaccess-date=2024-04-29website=Peepal Tree Pressarchive-date=March 31, 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331004423/https://www.peepaltreepress.com/blog/news-authors/shara-mccallum-wins-2022-hurstonwright-legacy-award-poetryurl-status=live }}
**title=2023 Legacy Award Winnersurl=https://hurstonwright.salsalabs.org/2023legacyawardwinners/index.htmlaccess-date=2024-04-29website=Hurston/Wright Foundationarchive-date=April 29, 2024archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429175120/https://hurstonwright.salsalabs.org/2023legacyawardwinners/index.htmlurl-status=live }}
Soraya PalmerThe Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts

General fiction

YearAuthorWork20022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Percival EverettErasure
Zakes MdaThe Heart of Redness
Mat JohnsonHunting in Harlem
Maryse CondéWho Slashed Celanire's Throat?
Nancy RawlesMy Jim
Edward P. JonesAll Aunt Hagar's Children
Junot DíazThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Uwem AkpanSay You're One of Them
Percival EverettI Am Not Sidney Poitierdate=2010-12-01title=Awards: Hurston/Wright Legacy Winnersurl=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1341access-date=2024-04-29website=Shelf Awarenessarchive-date=October 2, 2017archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171002203757/http://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=1341url-status=live }}
Danielle EvansBefore You Suffocate Your Own Fool Selfdate=2011-11-15title=Winners Named in the Tenth Annual Hurston/Wright Legacy Lit Awardsurl=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/49514-winners-named-in-the-tenth-annual-hurston-wright-legacy-lit-awards.htmlaccess-date=2024-04-29website=Publishers Weeklylanguage=enarchive-date=May 28, 2024archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240528004730/https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/49514-winners-named-in-the-tenth-annual-hurston-wright-legacy-lit-awards.htmlurl-status=live }}
Helen OyeyemiMr. Fox
Esi EdugyanHalf-Blood Blueslast=Brownfirst=DeNeen L.date=2023-05-17title=At D.C. gala, Esi Edugyan, Fredrick C. Harris win Hurston/Wright Legacy awardsurl=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/esi-edugyan-fredrick-c-harris-win-hurstonwright-black-literature-awards/2013/10/25/18700ca0-3d94-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.htmlaccess-date=2024-04-29website=Washington Postarchive-date=August 7, 2015archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807153852/http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/esi-edugyan-fredrick-c-harris-win-hurstonwright-black-literature-awards/2013/10/25/18700ca0-3d94-11e3-a94f-b58017bfee6c_story.htmlurl-status=live }}
NoViolet BulawayoWe Need New Names
Laila LalamiThe Moor's Accountdate=2015-10-27title=Awards: Hurston/Wright Legacy; CODE Burt; Readingsurl=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2621access-date=2024-04-29website=Shelf Awarenessarchive-date=February 6, 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206034825/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=2621url-status=live }}
James HannahamDelicious Foods
Colson WhiteheadThe Underground Railroaddate=2018-03-22title=Awards: Whiting, Stone Winnersurl=https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3210access-date=2024-04-29website=Shelf Awarenessarchive-date=March 26, 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326204343/https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=3210url-status=live }}
Alain MabanckouBlack Moses
Nafissa Thompson-SpiresHeads of the Colored Peoplelast=Hendersonfirst=Amaris Janeldate=2019-11-19title=English professor receives Hurston/Wright Legacy Awardurl=https://as.cornell.edu/news/english-professor-receives-hurstonwright-legacy-awardaccess-date=2024-04-29website=Cornell Universitylanguage=enarchive-date=January 28, 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128135644/https://as.cornell.edu/news/english-professor-receives-hurstonwright-legacy-awardurl-status=live }}
Curdella ForbesA Tall History of Sugar
Percival EverettTelephone
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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Mihret SibhatThe History of a Difficult Child

Speculative fiction

YearAuthorWork2023
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments

Nonfiction

General nonfiction

YearAuthorWork20022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021
Ken WiwaIn the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy
Elizabeth McHenryForgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
Wil HaygoodIn Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.
Alexis De VeauxWarrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
John Hope FranklinMirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
Wangari MaathaiUnbowed: A Memoir
Edwige DanticatBrother, I'm Dying
Frank B. WildersonIncognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid
Robin KelleyThelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Isabel WilkersonThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Tomiko Brown-NaginCourage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
Fredrick HarrisThe Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics
Craig WilderEbony & Ivy
Elizabeth NunezNot For Everyday Use
Pamela NewkirkSpectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga
Kali Nicole GrossHannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America
Tiya MilesThe Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Imani PerryMay We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem
Albert WoodfoxSolitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope
Marcia ChatelainFranchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

Historical/Social/Political

YearAuthorWork20222023
Born in Blackness
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

Memoir/Biography

YearAuthorWork20222023
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
Inciting Joy

Poetry

YearAuthorWork20072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Patricia SmithTeahouse of the Almighty
Kyle G. DarganBouquet of Hungers
Myronn HardyThe Headless Saints
Rita DoveSonata Mulattica: Poemslast=Bromleyfirst=Annedate=2010-11-29title=Rita Dove Wins Hurston/Wright Legacy Awardurl=https://news.virginia.edu/content/rita-dove-wins-hurstonwright-legacy-awardaccess-date=2024-04-29website=UVA Todaypublisher=University of Virginialanguage=enarchive-date=December 4, 2023archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204194343/https://news.virginia.edu/content/rita-dove-wins-hurstonwright-legacy-awardurl-status=live }}
Haki R. MadhubutiLiberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems
Elizabeth AlexanderCrave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010
Evie Shockleythe new black
Lucille CliftonThe Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010
Amaud Jamaul JohnsonDarktown Follies
Claudia RankineCitizen: An American Lyric
Vievee FrancisForest Primeval
Donika KellyBestiary
Evie ShockleySemiautomatic
Terrance HayesAmerican Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Ladan OsmanExiles of Eden
Rachel Eliza GriffithsSeeing the Body
No Ruined Stonedate=2022-11-09title=Shara McCallum receives Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetryurl=https://www.psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/story/shara-mccallum-receives-hurston-wright-legacy-award-poetry/access-date=2024-04-29website=Penn State Universitylanguage=enarchive-date=November 22, 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221122140923/https://www.psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/story/shara-mccallum-receives-hurston-wright-legacy-award-poetry/url-status=live }}
Concentrate

Winners, finalists, and nominees

Fiction

Contemporary fiction

YearAuthorWorkResult20052006
**Winner
BlingNominee
Shifting Through NeutralNominee
Love on the Dotted LineNominee
**Winner
Who Does She Think She Is?Nominee

Debut fiction

YearAuthorWorkResult20022003200420052006200720082016201720182020202120222023
Gabriel's StoryWinner
**Finalist
GreenwichtownFinalist
Breathing RoomNominee
Break Any Woman DownNominee
**Nominee
Leaving AtlantaWinner
**Finalist
Fifth BornFinalist
River WomanNominee
GiganticNominee
Song of the Water SaintsNominee
Purple HibiscusWinner
**Finalist
Knee-Deep in WonderFinalist
DaughterNominee
Drinking Coffee ElsewhereNominee
Getting Mother's BodyNominee
GraceLandWinner
Nominee
Nominee
Freshwater RoadWinner
Tropical Fish: Tales from EntebbeNominee
UpstateNominee
Ancestor StonesWinner
UnburnableNominee
Get Down: StoriesNominee
She's GoneWinner
Like Trees, WalkingNominee
ThemNominee
Mourner's BenchWinner
**Nominee
**Nominee
DamnificadosWinner
BlackassNomineetitle=John Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, and Carla Hayden to Receive 2017 Legacy Awardsurl=https://www.hurstonwright.org/ohn-lewis-haki-madhubuti-and-carla-hayden-to-receive-2017-legacy-awards/access-date=2024-04-29website=Hurston/Wright Foundationarchive-date=May 10, 2021archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210510173646/https://www.hurstonwright.org/ohn-lewis-haki-madhubuti-and-carla-hayden-to-receive-2017-legacy-awards/url-status=live }}
Born on a TuesdayNominee
**Winner
What We LoseNominee
**Nominee
AfricavilleWinner
Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a LiarNominee
As a RiverNominee
RemembranceWinner
Black SundayNominee
**Nominee
This LifeWinner
**Nominee
Young BloodNominee
**Nominee
**Winner
NightcrawlingNomineelast=Ali-Colemanfirst=Khadijah Z.date=2023-06-28title=2023 Legacy Awards Nomineesurl=https://hurstonwright.salsalabs.org/2023legacyawardsnominees/index.htmlaccess-date=2024-04-29website=Hurston/Wright Foundationarchive-date=April 29, 2024archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429175058/https://hurstonwright.salsalabs.org/2023legacyawardsnominees/index.htmlurl-status=live }}
Finding La NegritaNominee

General fiction

YearAuthorWorkResult2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
ErasureWinner
October SuiteFinalist
BombinghamFinalist
**Nominee
He SleepsNominee
Fearless JonesNominee
**Winner
**Finalist
Douglass' WomenFinalist
DiscretionNominee
Without a Name and Under the TongueNominee
Water StreetNominee
Hunting in HarlemWinner
**Finalist
**Finalist
Hottentot VenusNominee
Nominee
**Nominee
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?Winner
**Finalist
**Finalist
American DesertNominee
LinksNominee
Nominee
My JimWinner
Pride of CarthageFinalist
**Finalist
Joplin's GhostNominee
Dancing in the DarkNominee
Third Girl from the LeftNominee
All Aunt Hagar's ChildrenWinner
Half of a Yellow SunFinalist
DominionFinalist
Nowhere Is a PlaceNominee
Jump at the SunNominee
Wizard of the CrowNominee
Winner
**Finalist
Someone Knows My NameFinalist
**Nominee
Measuring TimeNominee
**Nominee
Say You're One of ThemWinner
Holding Pattern: StoriesFinalist
Where the Line BleedsFinalist
Stand the StormNominee
Blood ColonyNominee
Song Yet SungNominee
I Am Not Sidney PoitierWinner
Blonde RootsFinalist
Sag HarborFinalist
**Nominee
Big MachineNominee
Black Water RisingNominee
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool SelfWinner
GloriousFinalist
WenchFinalist
How to Read the AirNominee
Wading Home: A Novel of New OrleansNominee
How to Escape from a Leper ColonyNominee
Mr. FoxWinner
Silver SparrowFinalist
Zone OneFinalist
CrossbonesNominee
You Are FreeNominee
Salvage the BonesNominee
Half-Blood BluesWinner
**Nominee
Elsewhere, CaliforniaNominee
**Nominee
**Nominee
Gathering of WatersNominee
We Need New NamesWinner
Finalist
See Now ThenFinalist
Every Boy Should Have a ManNominee
Nominee
**Nominee
Winner
Finalist
Land of Love and DrowningFinalist
Nominee
Radiance of TomorrowNominee
Nominee
Delicious FoodsWinner
**Finalist
**Finalist
**Nominee
Welcome to BraggsvilleNominee
Under the Udala TreesNominee
Winner
**Finalist
Another BrooklynFinalist
**Nominee
**Nominee
Swing TimeNominee
Black MosesWinner
**Finalist
Sing, Unburied, SingFinalist
What It Means When a Man Falls from the SkyNominee
**Nominee
Dance of the JakarandaNominee
Heads of the Colored PeopleWinner
She Would Be KingFinalist
**Finalist
Friday BlackNominee
BrotherNominee
Washington BlackNominee
**Winner
Finalist
GingerbreadFinalist
Speaking of SummerNominee
PatsyNominee
**Nominee
TelephoneWinner
Finalist
Ring ShoutFinalist
These BodiesNominee
Book of the Little AxeNominee
Black Bottom SaintsNominee
**Winner
Rib KingNominee
**Nominee
NazaréNominee
Yellow WifeNominee
Reconstruction: StoriesNominee
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to CarlottaWinner
Take My HandNominee
Nominee
People PersonNominee
Mother CountryNominee

Speculative fiction

YearAuthorWorkResult2023
Our Lady of Mysterious AilmentsWinner
GoliathNominee
**Nominee

Nonfiction

General nonfiction

YearAuthorWorkResult20022003200420052006200720082009201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021
In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's LegacyWinner
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. WalkerFinalist
**Finalist
Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love StoryNominee
Salvation: Black People and LoveNominee
Impossible Witnesses: Truths, Abolitionism, and Slave TestimonyNominee
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary SocietiesWinner
Passed On: African American Mourning StoriesFinalist
**Finalist
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of GeniusNominee
American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White AmericaNominee
In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.Winner
Mandela, Mobutu and MeFinalist
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of AuthenticityFinalist
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale HurstonNominee
Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and BeautifulNominee
Somebody's SomeoneNominee
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre LordeWinner
**Finalist
**Finalist
**Nominee
**Nominee
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and RevengeNominee
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope FranklinWinner
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black HollywoodFinalist
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women ArtistsFinalist
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave ReparationsNominee
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and SexualityNominee
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary TraditionNominee
Unbowed: A MemoirWinner
**Finalist
**Finalist
Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob MarleyNominee
BookMarks: Reading in Black and WhiteNominee
**Nominee
**Nominee
Brother, I'm DyingWinner
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaFinalist
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first CenturyFinalist
InfidelNominee
**Nominee
**Nominee
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and ApartheidWinner
**Finalist
Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against LynchingFinalist
**Nominee
Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth- Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into LegendNominee
Somebody Scream: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black PowerNominee
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American OriginalWinner
Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground RailroadFinalist
Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray RobinsonFinalist
**Nominee
Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous TrialNominee
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner CityNominee
**Winner
**Finalist
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End SegregationFinalist
Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black InferiorityNominee
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop CultureNominee
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary ActivismNominee
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights MovementWinner
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black AmericaFinalist
One Day I Will Write About This PlaceFinalist
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in AmericaNominee
My Long Trip Home: A Family MemoirNominee
**Winner
There Was a Country: A Personal History of BiafraNominee
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate CityNominee
Exit: The Endings That Set Us FreeNominee
American LynchingNominee
Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in SlaveryNominee
Ebony & IvoryWinner
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie ParkerFinalist
Men We ReapedFinalist
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral HomeNominee
**Nominee
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African DiasporaNominee
Not For Everyday UseWinner
Fire Shut Up in My BonesFinalist
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement PossibleFinalist
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of EqualityNominee
Malcolm X at Oxford UnionNominee
Losing Our WayNominee
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota BengaWinner
**Finalist
Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican RepublicFinalist
Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and CultureNominee
Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We Catch Mental IllnessNominee
**Nominee
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in AmericaWinner
**Finalist
In the Wake: On Blackness and BeingFinalist
**Nominee
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaNominee
Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short LivesNominee
**Winner
Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public EducationFinalist
**Finalist
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.Nominee
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White SupremacyNominee
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and HistoryNominee
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National AnthemWinner
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful MobsterFinalist
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her SuperpowerFinalist
Tigerland: 1968–1969 A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of HealingNominee
Heavy: An American MemoirNominee
**Nominee
Solitary: My Story of Transformation and HopeWinner
Think Black: A MemoirFinalist
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer RadicalsFinalist
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored PeopleNominee
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black MotherhoodNominee
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in EssaysNominee
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black AmericaWinner
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave WarFinalist
**Finalist
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male AmericaNominee
**Nominee
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's MemoirNominee

Historical/Social/Political Nonfiction

YearAuthorTitleResult20222023
Born in BlacknessWinner
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist SoundNominee
We Do This Till We Free UsNominee
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal ExecutionersWinner
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American CultureNominee
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and PowerNominee
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black BolshevikNominee

Memoir/Biography

YearAuthorTitleResult20222023
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKayWinner
Read Until You UnderstandNominee
Bird UncagedNominee
Inciting JoyWinner
This Boy We MadeNominee
Black Boy SmileNominee
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-DiscoveryNominee

Poetry

YearAuthorWorkResult2007200820092010201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Teahouse of the AlmightyWinner
Wind in a BoxFinalist
**Finalist
Bouquet of HungersWinner
ConversionNominee
Quantum LyricsNominee
**Winner
PleaseNominee
WarhorsesNominee
Sonata Mulattica: PoemsWinner
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected PoemsWinner
GospelNominee
Cooling Board: A Long-Playing PoemNominee
Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010Winner
LightheadNominee
Skin, Inc: Identity Repair PoemsNominee
**Winner
Kingdom AnimaliaNominee
Life on MarsNominee
**Winner
But a Storm Is Blowing from ParadiseNominee
me and NinaNominee
Darktown FolliesWinner
Hemming the WaterFinalist
**Finalist
What We Ask of FleshNominee
**Nominee
SilverchestNominee
Citizen: An American LyricWinner
Revising the StormFinalist
King MeFinalist
We Don't Know Any GangstersNominee
DigestNominee
**Nominee
Forest PrimevalWinner
Honest EngineFinalist
Catalog of Unabashed GratitudeFinalist
Voyage of the Sable VenusNominee
How to Be DrawnNominee
It Seems Like a Mighty Long TimeNominee
BestiaryWinner
play deadFinalist
Thief in the InteriorFinalist
Third VoiceNominee
RaptureNominee
**Nominee
SemiautomaticWinner
Ordinary BeastFinalist
Incendiary ArtFinalist
City of BonesNominee
Trophic CascadeNominee
In the Language of My CaptorNominee
American Sonnets for My Past and Future AssassinWinner
MendFinalist
Crosslight for YoungbirdFinalist
Approaching the FieldsNominee
DiVidaNominee
Pardon My HeartNominee
Exiles of EdenWinner
& More BlackFinalist
SyncopeFinalist
Night AnglerNominee
1919Nominee
Library of Small CatastrophesNominee
Seeing the BodyWinner
Fantasia for the Man in BlueFinalist
Pale Colors in a Tall FieldFinalist
Jump the ClockNominee
Kontemporary Amerikan PoetryNominee
White Blood: A Lyric of VirginiaNominee
No Ruined StoneWinner
I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I LoveNominee
More Perfect UnionNominee
Tragic CityNominee
ShoNominee
Everyday Mojo Songs of EarthNominee
ConcentrateWinner
We Are Not Wearing HelmetsNominee
To the Realization of Perfect HelplessnessNominee
Plans for SentencesNominee
Null LandingNominee
Best BarbarianNominee
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