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Debut Fiction
Winner: Africaville, Jeffrey Colvin (Amistad)
Fiction
Winner: A tall History of Sugar, Curdella Forbes (Akashic Books)
Finalists:
Gingerbread,Helen Oyeyemi (Riverhead Books)
The World Doesn’t Require You, Rion Amilcar Scott (Liveright)
Poetry
Winner: Exiles of Eden, Ladan Osman (Coffee House Press)
Finalists:
& More Black, t’ai freedom ford (Augury Books)
Syncope, Asiya Wadud (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Nonfiction
Winner: Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope, Albert Woodfox (Grove Press)
Finalists:
Think Black: A Memoir , Clyde W. Ford (Amistad)
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, Saidiya Hartman (W. W. Norton & Company)
The full slate of nominees selected by the judges include:
Debut Fiction
Avery Colt is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, Ron A. Austin (Southeast Missouri State University Press)
As a River, Sion Dayson (Jaded Ibis Press)
Fiction
Speaking of Summer, Kalisha Buckhanon (Counterpoint)
Patsy, Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright)
The Revisioners, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Counterpoint)
Nonfiction
Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People, Ben Crump (Amistad)
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, Dani McClain (Bold Type Books)
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays, Damon Young (Ecco)
Poetry
Night Angler (American Poets Continuum), Geffrey Davis (BOA Editions, LTD)
1919, Eve L. Ewing (Haymarket Books)
Library of Small Catastrophes, Alison Rollins (Copper Canyon Press)
Judges
Debut Fiction: Preston Allen, Ladee Hubbard, Chigozie Obioma
Fiction: Chris Abani, Sanderia Faye, Alain Mabanckou
Nonfiction: Danielle Allen, Gerald Horne, Noliwe Rooks
Poetry: Kwoya Fagin Maples, Patricia Smith, Phillip B. Williams
Previously announced recipients of the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers also were celebrated during the ceremony. Hurston/Wright Foundation Co-Founder Marita Golden presented Sakinah Hofler and Sadia Hassan awards for fiction and poetry. Jenisha Watts, culture editor for ESPN’s The Undefeated, presented the inaugural Crossover Award for nonfiction to Melanie Farmer. |
