Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

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.

  1. ^ "Hurston/Wright Legacy Award" Archived December 26, 2017, at the Wayback Machine, Hurston/Wright Foundation.
  2. ^ "Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Awards 2018 nominees announced" Archived July 24, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, James Murua's Literature Blog, July 4, 2018.
  3. ^ "Hurston/Wright Foundation | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award". Hurston/Wright Foundation. Archived from the original on December 26, 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2018.
  4. ^ "Merit Awards" Archived July 23, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Hurston Wright Foundation.