The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation announces the 2015 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Winners and Finalists:
Legacy Award winners and finalists FICTION
Winner: Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account
Finalist: Roxane Gay, An Untamed State
Finalist: Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning
Legacy Award winners and finalists NONFICTION
Winner: Elizabeth Nunez, Not for Everyday Use
Finalist: Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Finalist: Charles Cobb, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed
Legacy Award winners and finalists POETRY
Winner: Claudia Rankine, Citizen
Finalist: Geffrey Davis, Revising the Storm
Finalist: Roger Reeves, King Me
Winners of the Hurston/Wright Founding Members Award for College Writers
POETRY
Winner: Renia White for poetry
FICTON
Winner: Grace Jean-Pierre
Honorable Mention: Sarah Daniele Dickerson
Honorable Mention: Jasmine Evans
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