Literary Fiction by People of Color discussion

And The Nominees for the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards are:

Debut Fiction:
This Life, Quntos KunQuest (Agate Bolden)
The House of Rust, Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (GrayWolf Press)
Young Blood, Sifiso Mzobe (NB Publishers)
The Final Revival of Opal and Nev, Dawnie Walton (37 Ink)

Fiction:
The Trees, Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
Nazaré, J.J. Amaworo Wilson (PM Press)
Yellow Wife, Sadeqa Johnson (Simon & Schuster)
The Perishing, Natashia Deon (Counterpoint)
Rib King, Ladee Hubbard (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins)
Reconstruction: Stories, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Small Beer Press)

Nonfiction: Memoir/Biography
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay, Shanna Greene Benjamin (The University of North Carolina Press)
Bird Uncaged, Marlo Peterson (Bold Type Books)
Read Until You Understand, Farah Jasmine Griffin (W. W. Norton & Company)

Nonfiction: Historical/Social/Political
Born in Blackness, Howard French (Liveright)
We Do This Till We Free Us, Mariame Kaba (Haymarket Books)
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, Daphne A. Brooks (Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press)

Poetry:
No Ruined Stone, Shara McCallum (Alice James Books)
Tragic City, Clemonce Heard (Anhinga Press)
More Perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis (Mad Creek Books)
Sho, Douglas Kearney (Wave Books)
I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love, Mahogany L. Browne (Haymarket Books)
Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth, Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

And the winners are:

Debut Fiction:
This Life by Quntos Kunquest

Fiction:
The Trees by Percival Everett

Nonfiction: Memoir/Biography
Half in Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Nellie Y. McKay by Shanna Greene Benjamin

Nonfiction: Historical/Social/Poltical
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War by Howard W. French

Poetry:
No Ruined Stone by Shara McCallum

I'm very happy for Percival Everett and look forward to learning more about the others. Thanks for this news!