WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation will present merit awards to three pioneers in their fields at the 2017 Legacy Awards on Friday, October 20 at the historic Washington Plaza Hotel in Washington, D.C. […]
Earlier this week the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes were announced. I was ecstatic to learn that of the 21 winners, 4 were African American writers in the categories of fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism. […]
Congratulations to the eight (8) books who won their respective categories for literary excellence at the 48th NAACP Image Awards, as well as, those books and authors nominated for literary excellence. #BlackBooksMatter. Outstanding Literary Work […]
Congratulations to Bro. Rion Amilcar Scott and Sisters Yaa Gyasi and Brit Bennett for making it to the Finalists level of the PEN literary award for Debut Fiction. It’s fantastic to witness three new voices from […]
Congratulations to the 2016 National Book Award winners: Colson Whitehead, Ibram X. Kendi, & Congressman John Lewis. On this day in Black Literary History (Nov 17th, 2016) we saw three African American men honored, not […]
Hurston/Wright Foundation Announces 2016 Legacy Awards WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation announced the winners and finalists of the 2016 Legacy Awards and paid tribute to celebrated authors Ernest J. Gaines and Junot […]
Congratulations to Paul Beatty, the first American ever to win the Man Booker Prize. The Sellout, written by Paul Beatty in 2015, “reads like the most concussive monologues and interviews of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor and […]
South African Lidudumalingani has won the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story ‘Memories We Lost’. Lidudumalingani was presented with the £10,000 prize by chair of judges, Delia Jarret-Macauley, at a ceremony […]
The Zora Neale Hurston / Richard Wright Foundation Calls for Submissions for the 2015 Legacy Awards The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards are the premier literary awards presented to Black writers by their peers. The Legacy Awards in Fiction, […]
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