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[see all 2003 winners ] [see 2002 winners and nominees]
The 2003 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards will be presented Saturday, October 11th 2003, at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., to be hosted by WJLA-ABC News Anchor Maureen Bunyan. A winner and two finalists in the categories of Fiction, Debut Fiction and Nonfiction will be announced and will receive the following prizes:
- Winner: $10,000
- Finalists: $5,000 each
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award is presented in parternship with Borders Books and Music. Featured guests at the Awards ceremony include authors Patrica Griffith, Colson Whitehead and Bebe Moore Campbell. During the ceremony award-winning children’s book author Eloise Greenfield will receive the Foundation’s North Star Award for her distinguished body of work.
And the Nominees Are:
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Fiction Nominees
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Water Street
by Crystal Wilkinson
(Toby Press)
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Without A Name and Under The Tongue
by Yvonne Vera
(Farrar Straus Giroux)
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Douglass’ Women
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
(Simon and Schuster/Atria Books)
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The Ecstatic
by Victor LaValle
(Crown)
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Discretion
by Elizabeth Nunez
(Ballantine/One World)
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The Heart of Redness
by Zakes Mda
(Farrar Straus Giroux)
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Debut Fiction Nominees
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Gigantic
by Marc Nesbit
(Grove Press)
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River Woman
by Donna Hemans
(Washington Square Press)
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Leaving Atlanta
by Tayari Jones
(Warner Books)
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A Little Piece of Sky
by Nicole Bailey-Williams
(Doubleday/Harlem Moon)
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Song of the Water Saints
by Nelly Rosario
(Pantheon)
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Fifth Born
by Zelda Lockhart
(Simon and Schuster/Atria Books)
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Nonfiction Nominees
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Passed On African American Mourning Stories
by Karla FC Holloway
(Duke University Press)
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Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
by Elizabeth McHenry
(Duke University Press)
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After The Dance A Walk Through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti
by Edwidge Danticat
(Crown)
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American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business& The End of White America
by Leon E. Wynter
(Crown)
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Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius
by Lawrence Jackson
(John Wiley & Sons)
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The Herndons: An Atlanta Family
by Carole Merritt
(The University of Georgia Press)
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