About
The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation’s Annual Legacy Awards Ceremony 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. Since then, we have recognized nearly 400 works by Black writers in the categories of debut fiction, fiction, nonfiction and poetry, and honored 97 students with College Writing Awards.
This year’s event is hosted by one of the most prolific voices of our time, critically acclaimed, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Board of Directors will also present three lifetime achievement awards to select writers for their storied career accomplishments and inspiration to the writing community—both on and off the page.
We look forward to celebrating Black literary excellence with you in October. Together, we will continue to honor Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright by supporting the work of Black writers who are shaping literature and inspiring change.
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Thanks to Our Supporters
We are deeply grateful to our grantors, sponsors, and The Writers’ Circle. The 2021 Legacy Awards is free and open to the public because of the generosity of our supporters.
Each member of The Writers' Circle made a significant contribution to help underwrite our celebrated and essential programs; support the foundation's mission to discover, mentor and honor Black writers; help us expand our programming, workshops, emerging writer competitions; and hire full-time staff. Thank you!
THE WRITERS' CIRCLE
Sheryll Cashin
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Maryse Condé
Wil Haygood
Karla FC Holloway
Attica Locke
Nathan McCall
Terry McMillan
Elizabeth Nunez
Chinelo Okparanta
Third World Press Foundation
Craig Steven Wilder
Additional funding provided by:
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
The National Endowment for the Arts
Howard University
Poetry Foundation
Greater Washington Community Foundation Arts Forward Fund
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