Hurston/Wright 2006 Nominees

The nominees for the Hurston/Wright Awards have been announced. Congrats to my friend and client, Kalisha Buckhanon. And congrats to Doug Seibold at Agate Publishing, another client, for Freshwater Road!

Fiction:
Joplin 's Ghost Due (Atria Books) by Tananarive Due
Pride of Carthage (Doubleday)by David Anthony Durham
The Untelling (Warner Books) by Tayari Jones
Dancing in the Dark (Alfred A. Knopf) by Caryl Phillips
My Jim (Crown Publishing) by Nancy Rawles
Third Girl From the Left (Houghton Mifflin)by Martha Southgate

Debut Fiction:
Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe ( University of Massachusetts Press )by Doreen Baingana
Upstate (St. Martins Press)by Kalisha Buckhanon
Freshwater Road (Agate Publishing, Inc.)by Denise Nicholas

Nonfiction:
My Face is Black is True (Alfred A. Knopf)by Mary Frances Berry
Bright Boulevard , Bold Dreams (One World/Ballantine)by Donald Bogle
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists( Oxford University Press)by Lisa E. Farrington
Mirror to America : The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)by John Hope Franklin
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race & Sexuality (NYU Press) by Dwight A. McBride
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition( University of North Carolina Press)by Cheryl A. Wall

Contemporary Fiction:
The Long Mile (Midnight Ink)by Clyde W. Ford
Who Does She Think She Is ? (Free Press)By Benilde Little
Love on the Dotted Line (Simon and Schuster)by David E. Talbert