The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award honors the best in Black literature in the United States and around the globe. Introduced in 2001, the Legacy Award was the first national award presented to Black writers by a national organization of Black writers. Fiction, nonfiction and poetry honorees are selected in a juried competition.
Franchise: the golden arches in Black America by 
Solitary: unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope by 
A Tall History of Sugar: a novel by Winners
Heads of the Colored People: stories by 
May We Forever Stand: a history of the black national anthem by Finalists
A Lucky Man: stories by 
Mend: poems by 
She Would Be King: a novel by Nominees
Brother: a novel by 
Friday Black by 
The New Negro: the life of Alain Locke by Winners
Black Moses by 
Dawn of Detroit: a chronicle of slavery and freedom in the city of the straits by 
Semiautomatic by Finalists
The Cooking Gene: a journey through African American culinary history in the Old South by 
Incendiary Art: poems by 
Sing, Unburied, Sing: a novel by Nominees
Dance of the Jakaranda by 
In the Language of My Captor by 
Trophic Cascade by 
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Winners
Bestiary: poems by 
Damnificados by 
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: a tale of race, sex, and violence in America by 
The Underground Railroad by Finalists
Another Brooklyn: a novel by 
In the Wake: on Blackness and being by 
Play Dead by 
Thief in the Interior by Nominees
The Book of Harlan by 
Born on a Tuesday: a novel by 
The Crown Ain't Worth Much by 
The Firebrand and the First Lady: portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice by 
Stamped from the Beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America by 
