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THE HURSTON/WRIGHT FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES
THE NOMINEES OF THE TENTH ANNUAL
HURSTON/WRIGHT LEGACY AWARD
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award honors exemplary works of literature before the national community of Black writers. By honoring these nominees, we're recognizing the profound significance, necessity, and genius of Black writers and the stories they tell. A panel of published authors in each genre reviewed submissions and selected nominees from categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
 
Winners will receive a cash award and the coveted statute of Djhuiti(je-hu-ty), the ancient Egyptian symbol of the patron saint of writing, speech, and divine intellectual pursuit. Finalists will receive an engraved plaque. The annual Legacy Award ceremony will be held November 10th at the historic Oxon Hill Mansion in Oxon Hill, Maryland near Washington, DC.

The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2011 Nominees are:
Fiction
Nominee
Danielle Evans
Danielle Evans
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
(Riverhead)
Nominee
Bernice McFadden
Bernice L. McFadden
Glorious
(Akashic Books)
Nominee
Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu
How to Read the Air
(Riverhead)
Nominee
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Wench
(Amistad)
Nominee
Rosalyn Story
Rosalyn Story
Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans
(Agate Bolden)
Nominee
Tiphanie Yanique
Tiphanie Yanique
How to Escape from a Leper Colony
(Graywolf Press)
Poetry


Nominee
Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander
Crave Radiance
(Graywolf Press)
Nominee
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Thomas Sayers Ellis
Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems
(Graywolf Press)
Nominee

Terrance Hayes
Terrance Hayes
Lighthead
(Penguin)

Nonfiction


Nominee
Tom Burrell
Tom Burrell
Brainwashed
(Smiley Books)

 

Nominee
Keith Gilyard
Keith Gilyard
John Oliver Killens
(University of Georgia Press)

 

Nominee
Lawrence P Jackson
Lawrence P Jackson
The Indignant Generation
(Princeton University Press)

 

Nominee
Rawn James Jr
Rawn James Jr.
Root and Branch
(Bloomsbury Press)
Nominee
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson
The Warmth of Other Suns
 (Random House)
Nominee
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Thomas Chatterton Williams
Losing My Cool
(Penguin Press)

ABOUT HURSTON/WRIGHT
Hurston/Wright is the nation's resource center for writers, readers, and supporters of Black literature. And thanks to the generosity of organizations such as Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Penguin Group USA, we provide services and guidance for Black writers and readers at every stage of their development. Our annual programs include the nation's only multi-genre summer residency workshop for writers of African descent with a tuition-free component for high school students; the first national award presented to published writers of African descent by their peers; an award for excellence to Black college writers; community awards to businesses, educators and/or cultural leaders that have demonstrated their commitment to African American literature; and a three week tuition-free writers workshop for high school students followed by monthly classroom and online instructions during the academic school year.

Once again we wish to give special thanks to our many supporters who include Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Group USA, Former Maryland State Senator David C. Harrington, The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Prince George's County Council Member Andrea Harrison, The National Harbor Community Outreach Grant Fund, and a host of individual donors for their generous support. For more information about Hurston/Wright visit our website at www.hurstonwright.org.
 

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