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'Zora Awards' renamed after famed Harlem Renaissance author
New York Amsterdam News
|May 15, 2025
One century after a career-defining year in the life of famed author Zora Neale Hurston, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation is changing the name of its annual Legacy Awards for literature to the Zora Awards, in honor of the pivotal figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Beginning with this year's awards ceremony in Washington D.C. in October, and going forward, the foundation's Zora Award for debut fiction for early-career Black authors will also include a $20,000 cash prize, underwritten by an anonymous donor. The Zora Awards also include categories celebrating Black authors in general fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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