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The Hurston/Wright Foundation is accepting submissions for the 2020 Legacy Awards for debut fiction, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

 September 1, 2019 to December 13, 2019

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. Legacy Award honorees are selected in a juried competition and celebrated at a ceremony each October.

Click Here for Submission Guidelines

This program was supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

About the Hurston/Wright Foundation: The Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation was founded in 1990 in Washington, D.C., and is dedicated to discovering, mentoring and honoring Black writers. Through workshops, master classes and readings, the organization preserves the voices of Black writers in the world literary canon, serves as a community for writers, and continues a tradition of literary excellence in storytelling established by its namesakes. 


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