Award
Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
19 years tracked (2002–2025), 106 entries total.
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award honors published Black writers worldwide for literary achievement. Introduced in 2001, it was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers. The award is granted for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, selected in a juried competition.
2024
2023
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
Concentrate
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Inciting Joy
Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments
Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture
Black Boy Smile
Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik
Finding La Negrita
Goliath
Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery
Nightcrawling
People Person
Plans for Sentences
Take My Hand
The Islands
The Last Dreamwalker
This Boy We Made
To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
We Are Not Wearing Helmets
We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power
2022
Born in Blackness
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay
No Ruined Stone
The Trees
This Life
Bird Uncaged
I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
More Perfect Union
Nazaré
Read Until You Understand
Rib King
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
The House of Rust
The Perishing
Tragic City
We Do This Till We Free Us
Young Blood
2021
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Remembrance
Seeing the Body
Telephone
Black Sunday
Fantasia for the Man in Blue
Jump the Clock
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Pale Colors in a Tall Field
Ring Shout
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The Coyotes of Carthage
The Freedom Artist
These Bodies
2020
A Tall History of Sugar
Africaville
Exiles of Eden
Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope
& More Black
As a River
Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar
Gingerbread
Night Angler
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
Speaking of Summer
Syncope
The World Doesn't Require You
Think Black: A Memoir
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
