The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards program in the United States honors published Black writers worldwide for literary achievement. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers.[1] [2] It is granted for fiction, nonfiction and poetry, selected in a juried competition.[3]
Each fall, writers and publishers are invited to submit fiction, nonfiction and poetry books published that year. Panels of acclaimed writers serve as judges to select nominees, finalists and winners. A number of merit awards are also presented.[4] Nominees are honored at the Legacy Awards ceremony, held the third Friday in October. The awards ceremony is hosted and organized by the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
In addition to the Legacy Awards, the Hurston/Wright board of directors may present Merit awards during the annual Legacy Award ceremony.
| Author | Work | |||
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| 2005 | Tracy Price-Thompson | A Woman's Worth | ||
| 2006 | Clyde W. Ford | The Long Mile: The Shango Mysteries |
| Author | Work | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | David Anthony Durham | Gabriel's Story | ||
| 2003 | Tayari Jones | Leaving Atlanta | ||
| 2004 | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Purple Hibiscus | ||
| 2005 | Chris Abani | GraceLand | [6] | |
| 2006 | Denise Nicholas | Freshwater Road | [7] | |
| 2007 | Aminatta Forna | Ancestor Stones | ||
| 2008 | Kwame Dawes | She's Gone | ||
| 2016 | Sanderia Faye | Mourner's Bench | [8] | |
| 2017 | JJ Amaworo Wilson | Damnificados | [9] | |
| 2018 | Ladee Hubbard | The Talented Ribkins | ||
| 2020 | Jeffrey Colvin | Africaville | [10] | |
| 2021 | Rita Woods | Remembrance | ||
| 2022 | This Life | [11] | ||
| 2023 | [12] [13] |
| Author | Work | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Percival Everett | Erasure | ||
| 2003 | Zakes Mda | The Heart of Redness | ||
| 2004 | Mat Johnson | Hunting in Harlem | ||
| 2005 | Maryse Condé | Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? | ||
| 2006 | Nancy Rawles | My Jim | ||
| 2007 | Edward P. Jones | All Aunt Hagar's Children | ||
| 2008 | Junot Diaz | The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | ||
| 2009 | Uwem Akpan | Say You're One of Them | ||
| 2010 | Percival Everett | I Am Not Sidney Poitier | [14] [15] | |
| 2011 | Danielle Evans | Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self | [16] | |
| 2012 | Helen Oyeyemi | Mr. Fox | ||
| 2013 | Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | [17] | |
| 2014 | NoViolet Bulawayo | We Need New Names | ||
| 2015 | Laila Lalami | The Moor's Account | [18] [19] | |
| 2016 | James Hannaham | Delicious Foods | ||
| 2017 | Colson Whitehead | The Underground Railroad | [20] | |
| 2018 | Alain Mabanckou | Black Moses | ||
| 2019 | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | Heads of the Colored People | [21] [22] [23] | |
| 2020 | Curdella Forbes | A Tall History of Sugar | ||
| 2021 | Percival Everett | Telephone | ||
| 2022 | ||||
| 2023 | Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta |
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| 2023 | Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments |
| Author | Work | |||
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| 2002 | Ken Wiwa | In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy | ||
| 2003 | Elizabeth McHenry | Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies | ||
| 2004 | Wil Haygood | In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. | ||
| 2005 | Alexis De Veaux | Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde | ||
| 2006 | John Hope Franklin | Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin | ||
| 2007 | Wangari Maathai | Unbowed: A Memoir | ||
| 2008 | Edwige Danticat | Brother, I'm Dying | ||
| 2009 | Frank B. Wilderson | Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid | ||
| 2010 | Robin Kelley | Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original | ||
| 2011 | Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | ||
| 2012 | Tomiko Brown-Nagin | Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement | ||
| 2013 | Fredrick Harris | The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics | ||
| 2014 | Craig Wilder | Ebony & Ivy | ||
| 2015 | Elizabeth Nunez | Not For Everyday Use | ||
| 2016 | Pamela Newkirk | Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga | ||
| 2017 | Kali Nicole Gross | Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America | ||
| 2018 | Tiya Miles | The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits | ||
| 2019 | Imani Perry | May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem | ||
| 2020 | Albert Woodfox | Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope | ||
| 2021 | Marcia Chatelain |
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| 2022 | Born in Blackness | |||
| 2023 | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners |
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| 2022 | Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay | |||
| 2023 | Inciting Joy |
| Author | Work | |||
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| 2007 | Patricia Smith | Teahouse of the Almighty | ||
| 2008 | Kyle G. Dargan | Bouquet of Hungers | ||
| 2009 | Myronn Hardy | The Headless Saints | ||
| 2010 | Rita Dove | Sonata Mulattica: Poems | [24] | |
| Haki R. Madhubuti | Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems | |||
| 2011 | Elizabeth Alexander | Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 | ||
| 2012 | Evie Shockley | the new black | ||
| 2013 | Lucille Clifton | The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 | ||
| 2014 | Amaud Jamaul Johnson | Darktown Follies | ||
| 2015 | Claudia Rankine | |||
| 2016 | Vievee Francis | Forest Primeval | ||
| 2017 | Donika Kelly | Bestiary | ||
| 2018 | Evie Shockley | Semiautomatic | ||
| 2019 | Terrance Hayes | American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin | ||
| 2020 | Ladan Osman | Exiles of Eden | ||
| 2021 | Rachel Eliza Griffiths | Seeing the Body | ||
| 2022 | No Ruined Stone | [25] | ||
| 2023 | Concentrate |
| Author | Work | Result | ||
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| 2005 | Winner | |||
| Bling | Nominee | |||
| Shifting Through Neutral | Nominee | |||
| Love on the Dotted Line | Nominee | |||
| 2006 | Winner | |||
| Who Does She Think She Is? | Nominee |
| Author | Work | Result | ||
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| 2002 | Gabriel's Story | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Greenwichtown | Finalist | |||
| Breathing Room | Nominee | |||
| Break Any Woman Down | Nominee | |||
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| 2003 | Leaving Atlanta | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Fifth Born | Finalist | |||
| River Woman | Nominee | |||
| Gigantic | Nominee | |||
| Song of the Water Saints | Nominee | |||
| 2004 | Purple Hibiscus | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Knee-Deep in Wonder | Finalist | |||
| Daughter | Nominee | |||
| Drinking Coffee Elsewhere | Nominee | |||
| Getting Mother's Body | Nominee | |||
| 2005 | GraceLand | Winner | ||
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| 2006 | Freshwater Road | Winner | ||
| Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe | Nominee | |||
| Upstate | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | Ancestor Stones | Winner | ||
| Unburnable | Nominee | |||
| Get Down: Stories | Nominee | |||
| 2008 | She's Gone | Winner | ||
| Like Trees, Walking | Nominee | |||
| Them | Nominee | |||
| 2016 | Mourner's Bench | Winner | ||
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| 2017 | Damnificados | Winner | ||
| Blackass | Nominee | [26] | ||
| Born on a Tuesday | Nominee | |||
| 2018 | Winner | |||
| What We Lose | Nominee | |||
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| 2020 | Africaville | Winner | ||
| Avery Colt Is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar | Nominee | |||
| As a River | Nominee | |||
| 2021 | Remembrance | Winner | ||
| Black Sunday | Nominee | |||
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| 2022 | This Life | Winner | ||
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| Young Blood | Nominee | |||
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| 2023 | Winner | |||
| Nightcrawling | Nominee | [27] | ||
| Finding La Negrita | Nominee |
| Author | Work | Result | ||
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| 2002 | Erasure | Winner | ||
| October Suite | Finalist | |||
| Bombingham | Finalist | |||
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| He Sleeps | Nominee | |||
| Fearless Jones | Nominee | |||
| 2003 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Douglass' Women | Finalist | |||
| Discretion | Nominee | |||
| Without a Name and Under the Tongue | Nominee | |||
| Water Street | Nominee | |||
| 2004 | Hunting in Harlem | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
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| Hottentot Venus | Nominee | |||
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| 2005 | Who Slashed Celanire's Throat? | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
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| American Desert | Nominee | |||
| Links | Nominee | |||
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| 2006 | My Jim | Winner | ||
| Pride of Carthage | Finalist | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Joplin's Ghost | Nominee | |||
| Dancing in the Dark | Nominee | |||
| Third Girl from the Left | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | All Aunt Hagar's Children | Winner | ||
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Finalist | |||
| Dominion | Finalist | |||
| Nowhere Is a Place | Nominee | |||
| Jump at the Sun | Nominee | |||
| Wizard of the Crow | Nominee | |||
| 2008 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Someone Knows My Name | Finalist | |||
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| Measuring Time | Nominee | |||
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| 2009 | Say You're One of Them | Winner | ||
| Holding Pattern: Stories | Finalist | |||
| Where the Line Bleeds | Finalist | |||
| Stand the Storm | Nominee | |||
| Blood Colony | Nominee | |||
| Song Yet Sung | Nominee | |||
| 2010 | I Am Not Sidney Poitier | Winner | ||
| Blonde Roots | Finalist | |||
| Sag Harbor | Finalist | |||
| Nominee | ||||
| Big Machine | Nominee | |||
| Black Water Rising | Nominee | |||
| 2011 | Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self | Winner | ||
| Glorious | Finalist | |||
| Wench | Finalist | |||
| How to Read the Air | Nominee | |||
| Wading Home: A Novel of New Orleans | Nominee | |||
| How to Escape from a Leper Colony | Nominee | |||
| 2012 | Mr. Fox | Winner | ||
| Silver Sparrow | Finalist | |||
| Zone One | Finalist | |||
| Crossbones | Nominee | |||
| You Are Free | Nominee | |||
| Salvage the Bones | Nominee | |||
| 2013 | Half-Blood Blues | Winner | ||
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| Elsewhere, California | Nominee | |||
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| Gathering of Waters | Nominee | |||
| 2014 | We Need New Names | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| See Now Then | Finalist | |||
| Every Boy Should Have a Man | Nominee | |||
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| 2015 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Land of Love and Drowning | Finalist | |||
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| Radiance of Tomorrow | Nominee | |||
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| 2016 | Delicious Foods | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
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| Welcome to Braggsville | Nominee | |||
| Under the Udala Trees | Nominee | |||
| 2017 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Another Brooklyn | Finalist | |||
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| Swing Time | Nominee | |||
| 2018 | Black Moses | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Finalist | |||
| What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky | Nominee | |||
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| Dance of the Jakaranda | Nominee | |||
| 2019 | Heads of the Colored People | Winner | ||
| She Would Be King | Finalist | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Friday Black | Nominee | |||
| Brother | Nominee | |||
| Washington Black | Nominee | |||
| 2020 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Gingerbread | Finalist | |||
| Speaking of Summer | Nominee | |||
| Patsy | Nominee | |||
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| 2021 | Telephone | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Ring Shout | Finalist | |||
| These Bodies | Nominee | |||
| Book of the Little Axe | Nominee | |||
| Black Bottom Saints | Nominee | |||
| 2022 | Winner | |||
| Rib King | Nominee | |||
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| Nazaré | Nominee | |||
| Yellow Wife | Nominee | |||
| Reconstruction: Stories | Nominee | |||
| 2023 | Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta | Winner | ||
| Take My Hand | Nominee | |||
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| People Person | Nominee | |||
| Mother Country | Nominee |
| Author | Work | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments | Winner | ||
| Goliath | Nominee | |||
| Nominee |
| Author | Work | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son's Journey to Understand His Father's Legacy | Winner | ||
| On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker | Finalist | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story | Nominee | |||
| Salvation: Black People and Love | Nominee | |||
| Impossible Witnesses: Truths, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony | Nominee | |||
| 2003 | Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies | Winner | ||
| Passed On: African American Mourning Stories | Finalist | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius | Nominee | |||
| American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America | Nominee | |||
| 2004 | In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. | Winner | ||
| Mandela, Mobutu and Me | Finalist | |||
| Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity | Finalist | |||
| Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston | Nominee | |||
| Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful | Nominee | |||
| Somebody's Someone | Nominee | |||
| 2005 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | ||||
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| Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation and Revenge | Nominee | |||
| 2006 | Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin | Winner | ||
| Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood | Finalist | |||
| Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists | Finalist | |||
| My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations | Nominee | |||
| Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality | Nominee | |||
| Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition | Nominee | |||
| 2007 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Finalist | ||||
| Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley | Nominee | |||
| BookMarks: Reading in Black and White | Nominee | |||
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| 2008 | Brother, I'm Dying | Winner | ||
| Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America | Finalist | |||
| On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century | Finalist | |||
| Infidel | Nominee | |||
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| 2009 | Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching | Finalist | |||
| Nominee | ||||
| Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth- Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend | Nominee | |||
| Somebody Scream: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power | Nominee | |||
| 2010 | Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original | Winner | ||
| Freedom by Any Means: True Stories of Cunning and Courage on the Underground Railroad | Finalist | |||
| Sweet Thunder: The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson | Finalist | |||
| Nominee | ||||
| Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial | Nominee | |||
| More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City | Nominee | |||
| 2011 | Winner | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation | Finalist | |||
| Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority | Nominee | |||
| Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture | Nominee | |||
| John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism | Nominee | |||
| 2012 | Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement | Winner | ||
| Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America | Finalist | |||
| One Day I Will Write About This Place | Finalist | |||
| Nominee | ||||
| My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir | Nominee | |||
| 2013 | Winner | |||
| Nominee | ||||
| Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City | Nominee | |||
| Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free | Nominee | |||
| American Lynching | Nominee | |||
| Help Me To Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery | Nominee | |||
| 2014 | Ebony & Ivory | Winner | ||
| Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker | Finalist | |||
| Men We Reaped | Finalist | |||
| Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home | Nominee | |||
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| Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora | Nominee | |||
| 2015 | Not For Everyday Use | Winner | ||
| Fire Shut Up in My Bones | Finalist | |||
| This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible | Finalist | |||
| Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality | Nominee | |||
| Malcolm X at Oxford Union | Nominee | |||
| Losing Our Way | Nominee | |||
| 2016 | Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| Confronting Black Jacobins: The United States, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic | Finalist | |||
| Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture | Nominee | |||
| Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We Catch Mental Illness | Nominee | |||
| Nominee | ||||
| 2017 | Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America | Winner | ||
| Finalist | ||||
| In the Wake: On Blackness and Being | Finalist | |||
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| 2018 | Winner | |||
| Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education | Finalist | |||
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| Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. | Nominee | |||
| Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy | Nominee | |||
| Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History | Nominee | |||
| 2019 | May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem | Winner | ||
| Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster | Finalist | |||
| Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower | Finalist | |||
| Tigerland: 1968–1969 A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing | Nominee | |||
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| 2020 | Solitary: My Story of Transformation and Hope | Winner | ||
| Think Black: A Memoir | Finalist | |||
| Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals | Finalist | |||
| Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People | Nominee | |||
| We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood | Nominee | |||
| What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays | Nominee | |||
| 2021 | Winner | |||
| Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War | Finalist | |||
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| Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America | Nominee | |||
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| Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir | Nominee |
| Author | Title | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Born in Blackness | Winner | ||
| Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound | Nominee | |||
| We Do This Till We Free Us | Nominee | |||
| 2023 | By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners | Winner | ||
| Antagonistic Cooperation: Jazz, Collage, Fiction, and the Shaping of African American Culture | Nominee | |||
| We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power | Nominee | |||
| Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik | Nominee |
| Author | Title | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay | Winner | ||
| Read Until You Understand | Nominee | |||
| Bird Uncaged | Nominee | |||
| 2023 | Inciting Joy | Winner | ||
| This Boy We Made | Nominee | |||
| Black Boy Smile | Nominee | |||
| Invisible Boy: A Memoir of Self-Discovery | Nominee |
| Author | Work | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Teahouse of the Almighty | Winner | ||
| Wind in a Box | Finalist | |||
| Finalist | ||||
| 2008 | Bouquet of Hungers | Winner | ||
| Conversion | Nominee | |||
| Quantum Lyrics | Nominee | |||
| 2009 | Winner | |||
| Please | Nominee | |||
| Warhorses | Nominee | |||
| 2010 | Sonata Mulattica: Poems | Winner | ||
| Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems | Winner | |||
| Gospel | Nominee | |||
| Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem | Nominee | |||
| 2011 | Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990–2010 | Winner | ||
| Lighthead | Nominee | |||
| Skin, Inc: Identity Repair Poems | Nominee | |||
| 2012 | Winner | |||
| Kingdom Animalia | Nominee | |||
| Life on Mars | Nominee | |||
| 2013 | Winner | |||
| But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise | Nominee | |||
| me and Nina | Nominee | |||
| 2014 | Darktown Follies | Winner | ||
| Hemming the Water | Finalist | |||
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| What We Ask of Flesh | Nominee | |||
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| Silverchest | Nominee | |||
| 2015 | Winner | |||
| Revising the Storm | Finalist | |||
| King Me | Finalist | |||
| We Don't Know Any Gangsters | Nominee | |||
| Digest | Nominee | |||
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| 2016 | Forest Primeval | Winner | ||
| Honest Engine | Finalist | |||
| Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude | Finalist | |||
| Voyage of the Sable Venus | Nominee | |||
| How to Be Drawn | Nominee | |||
| It Seems Like a Mighty Long Time | Nominee | |||
| 2017 | Bestiary | Winner | ||
| play dead | Finalist | |||
| Thief in the Interior | Finalist | |||
| Third Voice | Nominee | |||
| Rapture | Nominee | |||
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| 2018 | Semiautomatic | Winner | ||
| Ordinary Beast | Finalist | |||
| Incendiary Art | Finalist | |||
| City of Bones | Nominee | |||
| Trophic Cascade | Nominee | |||
| In the Language of My Captor | Nominee | |||
| 2019 | American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin | Winner | ||
| Mend | Finalist | |||
| Crosslight for Youngbird | Finalist | |||
| Approaching the Fields | Nominee | |||
| DiVida | Nominee | |||
| Pardon My Heart | Nominee | |||
| 2020 | Exiles of Eden | Winner | ||
| & More Black | Finalist | |||
| Syncope | Finalist | |||
| Night Angler | Nominee | |||
| 1919 | Nominee | |||
| Library of Small Catastrophes | Nominee | |||
| 2021 | Seeing the Body | Winner | ||
| Fantasia for the Man in Blue | Finalist | |||
| Pale Colors in a Tall Field | Finalist | |||
| Jump the Clock | Nominee | |||
| Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry | Nominee | |||
| White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia | Nominee | |||
| 2022 | No Ruined Stone | Winner | ||
| I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love | Nominee | |||
| More Perfect Union | Nominee | |||
| Tragic City | Nominee | |||
| Sho | Nominee | |||
| Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth | Nominee | |||
| 2023 | Concentrate | Winner | ||
| We Are Not Wearing Helmets | Nominee | |||
| To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness | Nominee | |||
| Plans for Sentences | Nominee | |||
| Null Landing | Nominee | |||
| Best Barbarian | Nominee |