March 4, 2013
2013 Literary Awards Winners and Nominees from the African Americans on the Move Book Club
http://aambookclub.com/2013-aambc-award-full-list-of-winners-aambcawards
Break Out Author of the Year
Monica Mathis Stowe – Where Did We Go Wrong?
Tyora Moody – When Rain Falls (Victory Gospel Series #1)
Drusilla Mars – Black Fire
Nicety – Juicy: Pandora’s Box
Fabiola Joseph – Rebel’s Domain: Scarred For Life (Volume 1)
Independent Book Store of the Year
Cartel
Books and Beauty
The Literary Joint
Hueman Books
Black and Nobel
Magazine of the Year
JET
Urban Grapevine Magazine
Ebony
Essence
Sormag
Book Club of the Year
Reading Diva
Black Faithful Sisters and Brothers Book Club
OOSA
Sugar and Spice
Book Groupies Book Club
Street Lit Writer of the Year
Fabiola Joseph – Rebel’s Domain: Scarred For Life (Volume 1)
Kwan – Animal
David Weaver – The Power Family
Eyone Williams – Secrets Never Die
Treasure Blue – Little Bag Girl
Poet of the Year
GPA – The Mind of a Poetic Unsub
Kai – Peaceful Resolution
Luella Hill – Message In My Pen
Independent Publisher of the Year
Life Changing Books
Cash Money Content
Cartel Publications
Melodrama
SBR Productions
Book Reviewer of the Year
Blaze Reviews
OOSA
Carla Towns
Urban Reviews
Rawsistaz
Urban Book of the Year
Angry Ass Black Woman by Karen Quinoes Miller
The Cartel 4 by Ashley and JaQuavis
Where Did We Go Wrong? By Monica Mathis Stowe
Aminal by Kwan
Hated by Many, Loved by None by Shan
Male Author of the Year
Rahiem Brooks
David Weaver
Carl Weber
Brian W. Smith
Kwan
Vote for the Female Author of the Year
Myss Shan – Hated by Many, Loved by None
Ashley Antoinette – Guilty Gucci
Kenni York – Karma
Kimberla Lawson Roby – The Reverend’s Wife
Vanna B – Fancy
Christian Fiction Writer of the Year
Victoria Christopher Murray – Scandalous
Reshonda Tate Billingsley – The Secret She Kept
Shelia E. Lipsey for her book- What’s Blood Got To Do With It?
Vanessa Davis Griggs for her book- The Other Side of Dare (Blessed Trinity Novels)
Tyora Moody for her book- When Rain Falls (Victory Gospel Series #1)
Reader’s Choice Award
Treasure Blue
Nicety
Vanna B
Wahida Clark
Traci Bee
Romance writer of the Year
Zuri Day – Love on the run
Donna Hill – Everything is You
Traci Bee – A Nickel for a Kiss
Sadeqa Johnson – Love in a Carry On Bag
Anna Black – Who Do I Run To?
Nate Holmes Honorary Award
Rahiem Brooks
Treasure blue
Shelia E. Lipsey
Troy Johnson
Clarence Nero
AAMBC Author of the Year
Silk White – Married To Da Street
Jonean Mclain- Checkmate
Keith Thomas Walker fir his book- Dripping Chocolate
CJ Hudson – Knuckleheadz
Erica Crump – MISCELLANEOUS BLUES
September 3, 2012
The 8th Annual African American Literary Award Show will be hosted by celebrated award-winning actor Isaiah Washington. The event will take place in New York City on Thursday, September 27, 2012 from 6 pm – 11 pm at Melba’s Restaurant located at 163 West 125th Street & Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. 3rd floor.
Join us as we pay tribute to your favorite authors, publishers and book clubs as voted on by you, the fans.
Purchase your tickets before Sept 7 and take advantage of our special early bird discount of only $65. Ticket price includes cocktail reception, dinner, program guide and gift bag.
SPECIAL VIP TICKETS (ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER AVAILABLE)
A limited number of VIP tickets will be available on a first-come, first- served basis for a special price of only $100. VIP pass includes all of the above plus:
* Admission to our special Pre-VIP cocktail reception featuring Isaiah Washington, celebrity guests and many of your favorite authors.
* Guaranteed dinner seating at the VIP table of one of your favorite nominated authors
* Special deluxe gift bag!
Hurry, only 20 VIP passes available!
Tickets:
Early Bird Special! $65 before Sept 7
$75 after Sept 7
$85 (cash) at the door
$100 VIP tickets
African American Literary Awards Show
The AALAS Awards is the first of its kind. It is the most comprehensive awards show ever to recognize, honor, celebrate and promote the outstanding achievements and contributions that authors and writers make to the publishing, arts and entertainment industries
History of African American Literary Awards Show
The African American Literary Award show is the brainchild of Yvette Hayward, president of Y. Hayward, Inc., a public relations company that has been a powerful resource in the literary field for over a decade.
April 18, 2012
Manning Marable, Wesley Morris among this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners
By Donovan X. Ramsey
4:02 PM on 04/16/2012
The Grio
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The Pulitzer Prize committee at Columbia University announced its winners Monday afternoon. Among those selected were three black writers: film critic Wesley Morris of the Boston Globe, Tracy K. Smith for her book Life on Mars and the late Manning Marable for his final work, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.
Morris won the best criticism award, Smith for poetry and Marable in the category of history.
One of Morris’ reviews submitted for the consideration by the Pulitzer committee was his commentary on the movie The Help, where he wrote critically, “The Help joins everything from To Kill a Mockingbird to The Blind Side as another Hollywood movie that sees racial progress as the province of white do-gooderism.” It was one of many views expressed by black audiences and a part of most analysis that surrounded the film up until Hollywood’s award season.
Marable’s book was also controversial upon its release, just three days after the scholar’s death, for its complicated depiction of a slain civil rights figure. Critical acclaim came soon after however, with Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention receiving a nomination for the National Book Award and named one of the New York Times’ top 10 books of 2011.
Tracy K. Smith’s wining work of poetry, Life on Mars, was also heralded by the New York Times for it’s vastness. Smith’s approach to the relationship between humans beings and the universe was described as sending readers “out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled.”
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March 11, 2012
Winners will be announced live at the Baltimore Urban Book Festival on May 6th — www.baltimoreurbanbookfestival.com
Voting link is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEp4M25ZN2xRQks1ZlJuajJUNTM4M3c6MQ.
AAMBC Author of the Year
WINKK
Gregg Burton
Monique D. Mensah
Cheryl Faye
Christian Cashelle
Tiffany Ashley
Indie Book Store of the Year
The Literary Joint
Urban Knowledge
Horizon Books
Deja vu Book Lounge
Cartel Books
Breakout Author of the Year
David Weaver
ChaBella Don
Ondrea Davis
Chris Renee
Kai Storm
Magazine of the Year
Juicy
VIBE
Essence
Black Literature Magazine
Urbania
Book Club of the Year
OOSA
Divas Divine
AALBC
Sistahs on the Reading Edge
ARC
Indie Publisher of the Year
Life Changing Books
Wahida Clack Presents
Cartel Publications
G Street Chronicles
Street Lit Writer of the Year
Ashley Antoinette
K’Wan
JaQuavis Coleman
Erick S. Gray
Treasure E. Blue
Reviewer of the Year
Rawsistaz
Joey Pinkney
Cheryl Francis
ARC
Urban Reviews
Poet of the Year
Julia Press Simmons
Archuleta Chisolm
GPA
Imani Wisdom
Male Author of the Year
Eyone Williams
June Miller
RM Johnson
JaQuavis Coleman
Booker T. Mattison
Romance Author of the Year
Donna Hill
Francis Ray
Lutishia Lovely
Cheris Hodges
Brenda Joyce
Female Author of the Year
T. Styles
Traci Brown
Traci Bee
Envy Red
Wahida Clark
Christian Fiction Author of the Year
Victoria Christopher Murray
Vanessa Miller
Kimberla Lawson Roby
Vanessa Davis Griggs
Readers Choice Award
Jessica Miller-Epps
Joyce Oscar
Shewanda Pugh
Shampriest Bevel
DH Brooks
August 7, 2011
Here are the nominees for the 7th Annual African American Literary Awards Show. Voting starts Friday, July 29, 2011, ending September 2. Winners will be announced at the live show on September, 22, 2011
Fiction
Dorothy by LaToya S. Watkins
He Was My Man First – Courtney Parker & Nancey Flowers
No One in the World: A Novel – E. Lynn Harris & RM Johnson
Mama Ruby – Mary Monroe
Money Can’t Buy Love – Connie Briscoe
Self Help
How To Get Out Of Your Own Way – Tyrese Gibson
The Strawberry Letter: Real Talk, Real Advice, Because Bitterness Isn’t Sexy – Shirley Strawberry
Why Do I Have To Think Like A Man?: How To Think Like A Lady And Still Get The Man – Shanae Hall & Rhonda Frost
Priceless Inspirations – Antonia Carter
A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Girl for Advice on Living Your Best Single Life – Demetria Lucas
Biography/Memoir
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood – Ice T
The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring – Sugar Ray Leonard
Flavor Flav: The Icon The Memoir – Flavor Flav
Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain – Natalie Cole
Transparent – Don Lemon
Christian Fiction
An Inconvenient Friend by Rhonda McKnight
Right Package, Wrong Baggage by Wanda B. Campbell
The Deal, The Dance & The Devil – Victoria Christopher Murray
Crowning Glory – Pat Simmons
Who Said It Would Be Easy?: A Story of Faith (Zane Presents) – Cheryl Faye
Erotica
Strawberries, Stilettos, and Steam – Imani True & Dreama Skye
Southern Comfort” by Cynnamon Foster and Nina Foxx
Sixty-Nine – Pynk
Smooth Operator – Risque
Nasty – Dr. XYZ
Street Fiction
Justify My Thug – Wahida Clark
My Kinda Girl by Michael McGrew
The Prada Plan 2 – Ashley Antoinette
Welfare Wifeys: A Hood Rat Novel – K’wan
Memoirs Of An Accidental Hustler – JM Benjamin
Non Fiction
I Shall Not Die: Living A Psalm 118:17 Existence – Kendra Norman Bellamy
Fail Up: 20 Lessons on Building Success from Failure – Tavis Smiley
Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama – Sophia Nelson
Peace from Broken Pieces – Iyanla Vanzant
Becoming a Woman of Destiny: Turning Life’s Trials into Triumphs! – Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook
Mystery
Giving Up The Ghost by Stacy-Deanne
Ask Nicely and I Might by Lorraine Elzia
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey – Walter Mosley
Price Of Fame – Amaleka McCall
Surrender the Dark – L.A. Banks
Children/Young Adult
Getting Played by Celeste O. Norfleet
Drama Queens –ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Giant Steps To Change The World – Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Terrible Terrel – Whoopi Goldberg
Teen Girls Need L.O.V.E. by S.Dodson
Romance
Inseparable – Brenda Jackson
Sweet Persuasions– Rochelle Alers
Unexpected Interruptions – Trice Hickman
Twice The Temptation – Francis Ray
The Proposal – Brenda Jackson
Short stories/Anthologies
A Woman’s Revenge by Tiffany L. Warren, Sherri Lewis and Rhonda McKnight
Home Again: Stories of Restored Relationships by Wanda B. Campbell, Dijorn Moss, Tyora Moody and Trinea Moss
Between the Sheets – Tamika Newhouse, NiCola Mitchell and Anna Black
Magazines ( Non-Literary)
Black Enterprise
Ebony
Uptown
JET
Upscale
Magazines ( Literary)
Mosaic Books
Booking Matters
Written
African Voices
Black Literature Magazine
Humorist Award of the Year (Stand-up Comics)
Kevin Hart
Sherri Shepherd
Chris Spencer
Tony Rock
Rickey Smiley
Self Published Author of the Year
The Ultimate Question: Will Love Ever Know Me – Tamika Newhouse
Con Test: Double Life – Rahiem Brooks
Twisted – Ni’cola
Devour, One Man’s Tale of Love, Intimacy, and Ecstasy – D.A. Williams
Breakout Author of the Year
Tour Secrets – Winkk
The Putting Away – Sharel E. Gordon-Love
Open Your Eyes – Schelle Halloway
Shady – Dell Banks
Girl, Get Your Mind Right – Tionna Smalls
Publishing House of the Year
St. Martin’s Press
Kensington
Kimani Press
Grand Central Publishing
Simon & Schuster
Independent Publisher of the Year
Peace In The Storm
A New Quality Publishing
Delphine Publications
NCM Publishing
Black Dawn Books
Author of the Year-Male
J.M. Benjamin – Memoirs Of An Accidental Hustler
Walter Mosley – The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
E. Lynn Harris & RM Johnson – No One In The World
Carl Weber – Choir Director
K’wan – Welfare Wifeys
Author of the Year – Female
Victoria Christopher Murray (The Deal, The Dance & The Devil)
Kimberla Lawson Roby – Love, Honor and Betray
Pat G’Orge Walker – Don’t Blame The Devil
Nancey Flowers & Courtney Parker – He Was My Man First
Sophia Nelson – Redefining The Black Woman
Bookclub of the Year
Black Expressions
AAMBC
African American Literary Book Club (AALBC)
Go On Girl Bookclub
Television Writer of the Year
Tyler Perry – House Of Payne
Ali LeRoi – Are We There Yet
Mara Brock Akil – The Game
Stacy A. Littlejohn- Single Ladies
Shonda Rhimes – The Practice
Screenwriter of the Year
Tracey E. Edmonds – Jumping The Broom
Salim Akil – Jumping The Broom
Tyler Perry – For Colored Girls
Tyler Perry – Madea’s Big Happy Family
Comic Strip
Aarron McGruder – Boondocks
Jerry Craft – Mama’s Boyz
Ray Billingsley – Curtis
Keith Knight – The K Chronicles
Robb Armstrong –Jumpstart
Comedy Author
Girl, Get Your Mind Right – Tionna Smalls
Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there? – Whoopi Goldberg
Don’t Blame The Devil – Pat G’orge Walker
April 14, 2011
2011 AAMBC Awards COMING soon
Catering to the independent writer and artist the annual AAMBC Literary Awards is set to announce the official winners at the 1st annual Baltimore Urban Book Festival on April 10, 2011 at the The Fredrick Douglass-Issac Myers Maritime Park Museum. For the third year African Americans on the Move Book Club will honor those who made an impact in the industry with new categories such as Reader’s Choice and Honoree categories such as Awarding of the Indie Writer Sponsorship Award, Literary Legend Award Honoree, and Urban Fiction Book of the Year Honoree. With the same goal in mind of exposing prominent independent writers, there is no other award like AAMBC.
With a new development of the AAMBC awards committee who will take it upon themselves to select the honorees this year’s Award Ceremony is destined to take it to an all new greater heights.
And the nominees are…
AAMBC Author of the Year
Larry Wilson
Desirae Day
Marian L. Thomas
Rahiem Brooks
China Ball
Breakout Author of the Year
Kai
Rahiem Brooks
Karla Brady
Traci Bee
VJ Gotastory
Indie Book Store of the Year
Zahra’s Book Store
Novel Tees
Horizon Books
Urban Knowledge Book Store
Literary Joint
Book Club of the Year
OOSA
Rawsistaz
Chicago Reading Circle
BMORE Readers
Distinct Ladies
Magazine of the Year
Alive
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Ebony
Essence
Today’s Black Women
Publicist of the Year
Dawn Hardy
Tyora Moody
Pam Perry
Marlene Harris
Indie Publisher of the Year
Melodrama
Cartel Publications
Synergy Publications
Triple Crown Publications
Strebor Books
Street Lit Writer of the Year
K’wan
Wahida Clark
T Styles
KD Harris
Miasha
Reviewer of the Year
Rhea Banks
Urban Book Source
Joey Pinkney
Rawsistaz
Jennifer Cossiore
Poet of the Year
Marc Lacey
Samara King
Charlene Green
GPA
Male Author of the Year
JM Benjamin
Carl Weber
Gregg Burton
Moses Miller
Brian W. Smith
Romance Author of the Year
Trice Hickman
NTyse
Sheila Goss
Suzetta Perkins
Zuri Day
Female Author of the Year
Reshonda Tate Billingsley
Tu-shonda Whitaker
Karla Brady
Monique Mensah
Lutisha Lovely
Readers Choice
Shelia Lipsey
Yasim Harrison
Lutisha Lovely
April Bowden & Jeanie Bell
Isiah Hurst
Cherie Johnson
February 6, 2011
The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. announces the winners of the 2011 BCALA Literary Awards during the Midwinter Meeting of the American Library Association in San Diego, CA. The awards recognize excellence in adult fiction and nonfiction by African American authors published in 2010, including the work of a first novelist, and a citation for Outstanding Contribution to Publishing. The recipients will receive the awards during the 2011 Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, LA.
The winner in the Fiction category is Glorious by Bernice L. McFadden (Akashic Books).
McFadden interweaves rich historical details and vivid imaginative fiction in this riveting multi-faceted novel. Easter Venetta Bartlett, a fictional Harlem Renaissance writer, takes the reader on a journey from the Jim Crow South to the Harlem Renaissance and finally the Civil Rights movement. She battles racial oppression, betrayal, triumphs with success and ultimately finds redemption. Glorious is a brilliantly written novel and is destined to become a classic. Bernice L. McFadden is a critically acclaimed novelist and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
The winner in the Non-fiction category is The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore (Random House). Honor Books for Non-fiction were also selected: In the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance by Wilbert Rideau (Alfred A. Knopf) and John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism by Keith Gilyard (University of Georgia Press).
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates explores the importance of family, circumstance, opportunity, and its impact on African American male identity in urban America. Wes Moore provides an in-depth look into the journey of two African American males who happen to share the same name, but take very different life paths. In an environment disproportionately affected by poverty, a failing educational system, fatherlessness, and the rise of drug culture, this book raises the question of what does it take to positively impact the lives of young African American males? Equipped with a resource guide in its’ final pages, this book is an essential read for those who champion the critical influence of adults in young people’s lives. Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar, former White House Fellow, combat veteran of Afghanistan and he works as an investment professional in New York City.
Sentenced to death row for the murder of a white woman at the age of nineteen, Wilbert Rideau spent forty-four years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary also known as Angola and nicknamed “The Farm”, famed for brutality, riots, escape, and murder. His memoir, In the Place of Justice, graphically and poignantly exposes his life in a place of “living hell” and his journey toward rehabilitation as a prison journalist. A saga of determination, transformation, personal integrity and redemption, his triumph over adversity is worthy of recognition and to be shared as a lesson learned. Wilbert Rideau lives in Louisiana and works as a consultant for the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project.
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism delves into the life and times of an enigmatic figure considered the spiritual father of the Black Arts Movement. Killen’s life and political activism through literature are presented against a mosaic of other more well-known figures including Paul Robeson, W. E. B. Du Bois, Malcolm X and many others. Gilyard presents a well researched portrayal of Killens as novelist, teacher, essayist and founding chair of the Harlem Writers Guild. This is the first biography of John Oliver Killens and a significant contribution to the understanding of his influence as an African American writer activist. Keith Gilyard presently serves as Distinguished Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.
The recipient of the First Novelist Award is Dolen Perkins-Valdez for Wench (HarperCollins).
Perkins-Valdez captures the complexities of the relationships between enslaved women and their masters in her debut novel Wench. The story centers around a historical resort in Ohio, where southern slave owners were said to have vacationed with their enslaved mistresses. Wench tells the story of four women whose friendship is forged by pain, yet sustained by their love for their children and the hope of freedom. Perkins-Valdez has written an engaging and thought-provoking novel which examines another aspect of complicated relationships resulting from slavery. Dolen Perkins-Valdez teaches creative writing at the University of Puget Sound and divides her time between Washington, DC and Seattle, WA.
For excellence in scholarship, the BCALA Literary Awards Committee presents the Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation to Unfinished Blues: Memories of a New Orleans Music Man by Harold Battiste Jr. and Karen Celestan (The Historic New Orleans Collection).
Unfinished Blues is a memoir detailing Harold Battiste’s life and career as a musician, composer, producer, arranger, and educator while championing New Orleans jazz for more than fifty years. Lavishly illustrated with personal photographs it promotes and preserves the influence of music on Louisiana culture and heritage. This book is the first of the Louisiana Musician’s Biography Series. Harold Battiste currently resides in New Orleans.
Members of the BCALA Literary Awards Jury are: Gladys Smiley Bell, Hampton University; Karen B. Douglas, Duke University Law Library; Makiba Foster, Washington University in St. Louis; Carolyn Garnes, Library Consultant, Atlanta, GA; Ernestine Hawkins, East Cleveland Public Library; John Page, University of the District of Columbia; and Joel W. White, Durham (NC) County Library.
January 12, 2011
LITERATURE CATEGORIES
Outstanding Literary Work -Fiction
• ‘A Taste of Honey’ – Jabari Asim (Broadway Books)
• ‘Getting to Happy’ – Terry McMillan (Penguin Group)
• ‘Glorious’ – Bernice L. McFadden (Akashic Books)
• ‘Till You Hear From Me’ – Pearl Cleage (Ballantine Books/One World)
• ‘Wench’ – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amistad)
Outstanding Literary Work -Non-Fiction
• ‘Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority’ – Tom Burrell (SmileyBooks)
• ‘Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC’ – Editors: Faith
S. Holsaert, Judy Richardson, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Betty Garman
Robinson, Jean Smith Young, Dorothy M. Zellner (University of Illinois Press)
• ‘Surviving and Thriving 365 Days in Black Economic History’ – Dr. Julianne Malveaux
(Last Word Productions, Inc.)
• ‘The History of White People’ – Nell Irvin Painter (W.W. Norton & Company)
• ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’ – Michelle
Alexander (The New Press)
Outstanding Literary Work -Debut Author
• ‘Wench’ – Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Amistad)
• ‘The Girl Who Fell from the Sky’ – Heidi Durrow (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)
• ‘The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration’ – Isabel
Wilkerson (Random House)
• ‘Beneath the Lion’s Gaze’ – Maaza Mengiste (W.W. Norton & Company)
• ‘Forest Gate’ – Peter Akinti (Free Press/Simon & Schuster)
Outstanding Literary Work -Biography/Auto-Biography
• ‘Conversations with Myself’ – Ruth Hobday, Nelson Mandela (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• ‘Decoded’ – Jay-Z (Spiegel & Gran, a division of Random House)
• ‘Extraordinary, Ordinary People’ – Condoleezza Rice (Crown Archetype)
• ‘I’m Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen – My Journey Home’ -
Shoshana Johnson (Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster)
• ‘You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles’ – Ray Charles Robinson,
Jr. (Crown)
Outstanding Literary Work -Instructional
• ‘A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie: And Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life’ -
Antwone Fisher (Touchstone, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster)
• ‘Diet-Free for Life: A Revolutionary Food, Fitness and Mindset Makeover to Maximize Fat Loss’ – Robert Ferguson (Penguin Group USA, Perigee Hardcover)
• ‘If it Takes a Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service and 100+ Ways You Can Too’ – Malaak Compton-Rock (Crown Archetype)
• ‘The Blueprint: A Plan for Living Above Life’s Storms’ – Kirk Franklin (Gotham Books)
• ‘The Little Black Book of Success: Laws of Leadership for Black Women’ – Elaine Meryl Brown, Rhonda McLean, Marsha Haygood (Ballantine Books/One World)
Outstanding Literary Work -Poetry
• ’100 Best African-American Poems’ – Nikki Giovanni (Sourcebooks MediaFusion)
• ‘Hard Times Require Furious Dancing’ – Alice Walker (Author), Shiloh McCloud (Illustrator) (New World Library)
• ‘Holding Company’ – Major Jackson (W.W. Norton & Company)
• ‘Suck on the Marrow’ – Camille T. Dungy (Red Hen Press)
• ‘White Egrets’ – Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Outstanding Literary Work -Children
• ‘Grandma’s Gift’ – Eric Velasquez (Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books)
• ‘Mama Miti: Wangai Maathai and the Tree of Kenya’ – Donna Jo Napoli (Author), Kadir Nelson (Illustrator) (Paula Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
• ‘My Brother Charlie’ – Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete (Scholastic Press)
• ‘Side by Side/Lado a Lado: The Story of Delores Huerta and Cesar Chavez’ – Monica Brown (Author), Joe Cepeda (Illustrator) (Harper Collins Children’s Books)
• ‘The Great Migration: Journey to the North’ – Eloise Greenfield (Author), Jan Pivey Gilchrist (Illustrator) (Harper Collins Children’s Books)
Outstanding Literary Work -Youth/Teens
• ‘Condoleezza Rice A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me’ – Condoleezza Rice (Random House Children’s Books)
• ‘Lockdown’ – Walter Dean Myers (Harper Collins Children’s Books)
• ‘Malcolm X: I Believe in the Brotherhood of Man, All Men’ – Jeff Burlingame (Enslow Publishers, Inc.)
• ‘Out of My Mind’ – Sharon Draper (Atheneum Young Reader)
• ‘One Crazy Summer’ – Rita Williams-Garcia (Harper Collins Children’s Books)
July 6, 2010
The winners of the Glyph Comics Awards, designed to “recognize the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year,” were named during a ceremony held May 15 in Philadelphia as part of that weekend’s East Coast Black Age of Comics Con (ECBACC).
The judges for the 2010 competition were David Brothers, Carol Burrell, Brian Cronin and Katie & Dan Merritt. A ballot for the Fan Award for Best Comic is now open here.
Story of the Year
* Luke Cage Noir; Mike Benson & Adam Glass, writers; Shawn Martinbrough, artist
* The Original Johnson; Trevor von Eeden, writer and artist
* Unknown Soldier #13-14; Joshua Dysart, writer, Pat Masioni, artist
* War Machine: Iron Heart; Greg Pak, writer, Leonardo Manco, artist
* World of Hurt, Jay Potts, writer and artist
Best Writer
* Joshua Dysart, Unknown Soldier
* Jeremy Love, Bayou
* Greg Pak, War Machine
* Jay Potts, World of Hurt
* Alex Simmons, Archie & Friends
Best Artist
* Chriscross, Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance
* Jeremy Love, Bayou
* Shawn Martinbrough, Luke Cage Noir
* Jay Potts, World of Hurt
* Trevor von Eeden, The Original Johnson
Best Male Character
* Black Lightning, Black Lightning Year One; Jen van Meter, writer, Cully Hamner, artist; created by Tony Isabella & Trevor von Eeden
* Isaiah “Pastor” Hurt, World of Hurt; created by Jay Potts, writer and artist
* Jack Johnson; The Original Johnson; Trevor von Eeden, writer and artist; inspired by the life of Jack Johnson
* Luke Cage, Luke Cage Noir; Mike Benson & Adam Glass, writers, Shawn Martinbrough, artist; created by Archie Goodwin & John Romita Sr.
* Moses Lwanga, Unknown Soldier #13-14; Joshua Dysart, writer, Pat Masioni, artist; inspired by the character created by Robert Kanigher & Joe Kubert
Best Female Character
* Aya, Aya: The Secrets Come Out; created by Marguerite Abouet, writer, Clement Oubrerie, artist
* Lee Wagstaff, Bayou; created by Jeremy Love, writer and artist
* Michonne, The Walking Dead; created by Robert Kirkman, writer, Charlie Adlard & Cliff Rathburn, artists
* Misty Knight, Immortal Iron Fist; Duane Swierczynski, writer, Travel Foreman & Tom Palmer, artists; created by Tony Isabella & Arvell Jones
* Nola Thomas, NOLA; created by Chris Gorak & Pierluigi Cothran, writers, Damian Couceiro, artist
Rising Star Award
* Jiba Molei Anderson, The Horsemen
* John Aston, Rachel Rage
* Kerry & Tawanda Johnson, Harambee Hills
* Julian Lytle, Ants
* Jay Potts, World of Hurt
Best Reprint Collection
* Aya: The Secrets Come Out; Drawn & Quarterly
* Bayou Vol. 1; DC/Zuda
* Icon: A Hero’s Welcome; DC/Milestone
* The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the 21st Century; Dark Horse
* Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool; DC/Milestone
Best Cover
* Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink #1; Brian Stelfreeze, illustrator
* Luke Cage Noir #1; Tim Bradstreet, illustrator
* The Original Johnson; Trevor von Eeden, illustrator
* Unknown Soldier #8; Dave Johnson, illustrator
* Unknown Soldier #10; Dave Johnson, illustrator
Best Comic Strip
* Bayou; Jeremy Love, writer and artist
* Jump Start; Robb Armstrong, writer and artist
* The K Chronicles; Keith Knight, writer and artist
* The Knight Life; Keith Knight, writer and artist
* World of Hurt; Jay Potts, writer and artist
Fan Award for Best Comic
* Adam: Legend of the Blue Marvel; Kevin Grevioux, writer, Mat Broome, Sean Parson & Alvaro Lopez, artists
* Black Lightning Year One; Jen Van Meter, writer, Cully Hamner, artist
* Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink; Eric Wallace, writer, Fabrizio Fiorentino, artist
* Luke Cage Noir; Mike Benson & Adam Glass, writers, Shawn Martinbrough, artist
* War Machine: Iron Heart; Greg Pak, writer, Leonardo Manco, artist
February 27, 2010
The 2010 NAACP Image Awards is the nation’s premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts (motion picture, television, recording, and literature), as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors.
Literature Categories
Winners are highlighted in bold.
Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction
“Basketball Jones” – E. Lynn Harris (Doubleday)
“Before I Forget” – Leonard Pitts, Jr. (Agate Bolden)
“Life is Short But Wide” – J. California Cooper (Doubleday)
“The Book of Night Women” – Marlon James (Riverhead Books)
“The Long Fall” – Walter Mosley (Riverhead Books)
Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction
“Brain Surgeon: A Doctor’s Inspiring Encounters With Mortality and Miracles” – Keith Black, MD with Arnold Mann (Grand Central Publishing)
“Family Affair: What It Means to be African American Today” – Gil L. Robertson, IV (Agate Bolden)
“Freedom in My Heart: Voices From the United States National Slavery Museum” – Cynthia Jacobs Carter (National Geographic Books)
“In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past” – Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Crown)
“Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis” – Al Gore (Rodale Inc.)
Outstanding Literary Work – Debut Author
“3rd Generation Country” – BeNeca Ward (Xlibris Corporation)
“A Question of Freedom” – R. Dwayne Betts (Avery Books)
“Black Water Rising” – Attica Locke (Harper)
“Kiss the Sky: A Novel” – Farai Chideya (Atria Books)
“Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange” – Amanda Smyth (Three Rivers Press)
Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography
“Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud” – Dr. Cornel West (SmileyBooks)
“Michelle Obama” – Deborah Willis (W. W. Norton)
“POPS: A Life of Louis” – Terry Teachout (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
“Shooting Stars” – LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger (The Penguin Press)
“Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne” – James Gavin (Atria Books)
Outstanding Literary Work – Instructional
“Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man” – Steve Harvey (Amistad)
“The Conversation: How Black Men & Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships” – Hill Harper (Gotham Books)
“Down to Business” – Clara Villarosa with Alicia Villarosa (Avery Books)
“Start Where You Are” – Chris Gardner (Amistad)
“Your Money or Your Life” – Alvin Hall (Atria Books)
Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry
“Bicycles” – Nikki Giovanni (William Morrow)
“Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry” – Camille Dungy (The University of Georgia Press)
“Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem” – Mitchell L. H. Douglas (Red Hen Press)
“Mixology: National Poetry Series” – Adrian Matejka (Penguin Group)
“Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of Dudley Randall” – Melba Joyce Boyd (Wayne State University Press)
Outstanding Literary Work – Children
“Child of the Civil Rights Movement” – Paula Young Shelton (Random House Children’s Books)
“Negro Speaks of Rivers” – Langston Hughes (Author), E.B. Lewis (Illustrator) (Disney-Jump at the Sun/Disney Book Group)
“Our Children Can Soar: A Celebration of Rosa, Barack, and the Pioneers of Change” – Michelle Cook (Author), A.G. Ford, Bryan Collier, Charlotte Riley- Webb, Cozbi Cabrera , Diane Dillon, E.B. Lewis, Eric Velasquez , Frank Morrison, James Ransome, Leo Dillon, Pat Cummings , R. Gregory Christie, Shadra Strickland (Illustrators), Marian Wright Edelman (Introduction) (Bloomsbury Children’s Books)
“Peeny Butter Fudge” – Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison (Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
“Sugar Plum Ballerinas: Toeshoe Trouble” – Whoopi Goldberg with Deborah Underwood (authors), Maryn Roos (Illustrator) (Disney-Jump at the Sun/Disney Book Group)
Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens
“Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice” – Phillip Hoose (Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group/Farrar Straus and Giroux)
“Just Another Hero” – Sharon Draper (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
“Mare’s War” – Tanita S. Davis (Random House Children’s Books)
“Michelle Obama: Meet the First Lady” – David Bergen Brophy (Collins-An Imprint of HarperCollins Children’s Books)
“Rock and the River” – Kekla Magoon (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
