The Nominees for the 2021 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards are: Debut Fiction Black Sunday, Tola Rotimi Abraham (Catapult) The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw (West Virginia University Press) Remembrance, Rita Woods (Forge Books, imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, division of Macmillan Publishers) The Coyotes of Carthage, Steven Wright (Ecco/HarperCollins) Fiction These Bodies, Morgan Christie (Tolsun Books) Ring Shout, P. Djeli Clark (TorDotCom Publishing, imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, division of Macmillan Publishers) Telephone, Percival Everett (Graywolf Press) Book of the Little Axe, Lauren Francis-Sharma (Grove Atlantic) The Freedom Artist, Ben Okri (Akashic Books) Black Bottom Saints, Alice Randall (HarperCollins Publishers) Nonfiction Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, Vincent Brown ( Harvard University Press, Belknap Press Imprint) Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, Marcia Chatelain (Liveright Publishing (W. W. Norton & Company) The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power, Deirdre Mask (St. Martin's Press) Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, Ijeoma Oluo (Seal Press) The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another, Ainissa Ramirez (MIT Press) Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir, Natasha Trethewey (Ecco/HarperCollins) Poetry Fantasia for the Man in Blue, Tommye Blount (Four Way Books) Seeing the Body: Poems, Rachel Eliza Griffiths (W. W. Norton & Company) Jump the Clock: New and Selected Poems, Erica Hunt (Nightboat Books) Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry, John Murillo (Four Way Books) White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino (Sarabande Books) Pale Colors In a Tall Field, Carl Phillips (Farrar Straus and Giroux) The Judges Debut Fiction: David Anthony Durham, Amina Gautier, Donna Hemans Fiction: Clyde W. Ford, Kim McLarin, Dinaw Mengestu Nonfiction: Brittney Cooper, Chris Farley, Ron Stodghill Poetry: Chanda Feldman, Donika Kelly, Asiya Wadud |