Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V, presents the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominees Reading featuring Tiphanie Yanique, Laila Lalami, Charles E. Cobb and Roger Reeves.
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, sponsored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation, annually honor works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Black writers published in the previous year. Recognized as a singular award from the Black writing community to its peers, the Legacy Awards each year recognize members of the national and international Black writing community. Join four of the nominees—Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning, Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account, Charles E. Cobb, This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed, and Roger Reeves, King Me—as they read from their work on the eve of the award ceremony.
