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2015 Legacy Award Nominations

The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards annually honor published works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black writers published in the previous year. Recognized as a singular

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A New Look

The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is a resource for a world of Black writers and the readers who love them. We have a new

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Latest Book Club Reading

Mitchell S. Jackson and David Anthony Durham read from and discussed their work during a free, public reading at Sankofa Books in Washington, D.C., on

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Trouble Sleeping by Abdul Ali

Trouble Sleeping, the debut book of poems by local poet and Hurston/Wright Foundation board member Abdul Ali, is the contemporary answer to Lucille Clifton’s 1991

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Announcing the 2013 Legacy Honorees

The Hurston/Wright Foundation Announces the 2013 Legacy Award Honorees The 2013 Legacy Awards Ceremony will also honor the following writers: Wil Haygood, prize-winning biographer and

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