CRWROPPS Post : One Week Left: 2021 Legacy Awards Submissions!



 

The submission portal for the 2021 Legacy Awards closes next Friday, December 18th!

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.

This program is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Now through January 15, 2021, you can pledge your support to the Hurston/Wright Foundation (CFC #38743) through the Combined Federal Campaign. Pledge your support today.  

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. The Hurston/Wright Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Hurston/Wright Foundation
10 G Street NE, Suite 600
Washington, District of Columbia 20002
(202) 248-5051
info@hurstonwright.org

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