✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black Writers Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Song of Blood
Liza Street✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersLeslye Penelope's debut novel Song of Blood & Stone was chosen as one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. She will be one of the panelists at our upcoming event, "Pathway to Becoming a Published Author" on Feb. 21. Register: https://t.co/GdqSZsL3Sd #writers https://t.co/u8iU5FiN6g
Paperback, 2020
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Wild Is the Wind: Poems
Carl Phillips✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersCongratulations to 2021 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award honoree and Washington University professor Carl Phillips for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his most recent book, “Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020.” https://t.co/MztJBHcAbT
Paperback, 2019
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Haint: poems
Teri Ellen Cross Davis✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersExcited abt our Words of Color reading this Sunday at @busboysandpoets in Anacostia DC honoring Toni, Gwendolyn, Maya & Lucille. Presentations by Teri Ellen Cross Davis (@haint_poet ), Olu Butterfly (@olubutterfly), @olsoulnewday, Lyn Artope. Hosted by @awking020881 https://t.co/rQTi1Mu7oz
Paperback, 2016
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Young Blood
Sifiso Mzobe✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersThe Nominees for the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards In Debut Fiction Are: This Life by Quntos KunQuest (Agate Bolden) Young Blood by Sifiso Mzobe (Catalyst Press) The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton (37 Ink) (This list has been updated) https://t.co/X14kaAc1Ia
Paperback, 2021
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Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
Howard W. French✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersNominees for the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards In Nonfiction (Historical/Social/Political) Are: Born in Blackness by Howard French We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A. Brooks https://t.co/udO9gjwyZu
Paperback, 2022
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Blacks
Gwendolyn Brooks✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersBlackness is a title, is a preoccupation, is a commitment Blacks are to comprehend— and in which you are to perceive your Glory. from "Primer for Blacks" by Gwendolyn Brooks
Paperback, 1994
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Nobody's Magic
Destiny O. Birdsong✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersDestiny O. Birdsong is the author of the poetry collection, Negotiations and the novel Nobody’s Magic (2022). She was one of the Hurston-Wright Foundation’s inaugural Writers-in-Residence & will teach a summer workshop in Fiction June 16-18. Apply at: https://t.co/SQLUDfxlHU https://t.co/C2w9x9ix13
Paperback, 2023
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersLeft Bank Books Foundation, in St. Louis, Mo., has launched the Literacy & Justice Project. For a donation, they will send a copy of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Heavy by @KieseLaymon or another banned book to those who register for a free copy. https://travelbetweenthepages.com/2022/02/05/literacy-and-justice/
Paperback, 2007
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Light Skin Gone to Waste: Stories
Toni Ann Johnson✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black WritersCheck out this episode of Toni Ann Johnson in The Black Writer's Studio and SUBSCRIBE! @toniannjohnson is the winner of the 2021 Flannery O’Connor Award for short fiction, with her linked collection Light Skin Gone to Waste, selected by @rgay. https://t.co/PhcnKOU9h8
Paperback, 2022
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I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
Mahogany L. Browne✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black Writers2022 Legacy Award Poetry Nominees : No Ruined Stone, Shara McCallum Tragic City, Clemonce Heard More Perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis Sho, Douglas Kearney I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love, Mahogany L. Browne Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth, Yusef Komunyakaa https://t.co/KOxETA9SCx
Paperback, 2021
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