Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Debut Fiction) — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation · Since 2001 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	Grown Women	Sarai Johnson	One World
2024	The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts	Soraya Palmer	Catapult
2023	A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories	Meron Hadero	Restless Books
2022	This Life	Quntos Kunquest	—
2021	Remembrance	Rita Woods	Forge Books
2020	Africaville	Jeffrey Colvin	Amistad
2018	The Talented Ribkins	Ladee Hubbard	Melville House
2017	Damnificados	Jj Amaworo Wilson	Akashic Books
2016	Mourner's Bench	Sanderia Faye	University of Arkansas Press
2008	She's Gone	Kwame Dawes	Akashic Books
2007	Ancestor Stones	Aminatta Forna	Grove Press
2006	Freshwater Road	Denise Nicholas	Agate Bolden
2005	GraceLand	Chris Abani	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2004	Purple Hibiscus	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Algonquin Books
2003	Leaving Atlanta	Tayari Jones	Warner Books
2002	Gabriel's Story	David Anthony Durham	Doubleday