During this year AAMBC Inc, the powering force behind black writers weekend, will honor 50 urban fiction writers and host a series of events from; book signings, panels and socials, parties, and artists talks. The winners will be announced live during Black Writers Weekend in Atlanta, Ga June 7–9.
Official 2019 AAMBC Literary Award Nominees:
Book Club of the Year
Mocha Girls Read
Booktini
Well Read Black Girl
For Colored Girls Book Club
Breakout Author of the Year
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Literary Activists
Troy Johnson
Kima Jones
Yahdon Israel
Danielle Leach
Children Books/YA Author of the Year
Rebound (The Crossover Series) by Kwame Alexander
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López
Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi
Vanguard of Urban Media
Hello Beautiful
Blavity
The Root
Bossip
Independent Publisher of the Year
13th and Joan
Tiece Presents
Royalty Publishing
Algonquin Books
Magazine of the Year
Impact Magazine
Essence Magazine
Upscale Magazine
Sheen Magazine
Publisher of the Year
Harper-Collins
Penguin Books
Random House
Kensington
eBook of the Year
Give Him Back by B.M. Hardin
The Marriage Bed by Lakisha Johnson
A Beauty to His Beast: An Urban Werewolf Story by Natavia
Ethic by Ashley Antoinette
As Long As I’m The Only One by Chenell Parker
Blogger of the Year
Renae Bluitt
Alex Elle
Gabi Gregg
Didi “Brown Girl Reading”
Non- Fiction/Self Help Book of the Year
I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Editor of the Year
Vanessa K. De Luca
Latoya Smith
Sharai Robbin
Lilly Workneh “Blavity”
Yesha Callahan “The ROOT”
Street Lit Writer of the Year
Jade Jones
Natavia
K.C. Mills
T. Styles
Nako
Female Author of the Year
Roxane Gay
Tiffany D. Jackson
Nic Stone
Tayari Jones
Gloria Edim
Male Author of the Year
Derrick D. Barnes
Jason Reynolds
Ron Stallworth
Eric Jerome Dickey
Romance Author of the Year
Kim Cash Tate
Love Belvin
Christina C. Jones
Rochelle Alers
Christian Fiction Author of the Year
Kimberla Lawson Roby
ReShonda Tate Billingsley
Michelle Stimpson
Lakisha Johnson
Tiffany L. Warren
Motion Picture of the Year
Blank Panther
That Hate U Give
A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.
If Beale Street Could Talk
Creed II
Screenwriter of the Year
Lena Waithe “The Chi”
Natalie Baszile “Queen Sugar”
Barry Jenkins “If Beale Street Could Talk”
Joe Robert Cole, “Black Panther”
Ryan Coogler “Creed II”
Reader’s Choice Award
Natavia
Jade Jones
B.M. Hardin
Angie Thomas
Michelle Obama
Television Show of the Year
Grown-Ish
Love Is
Insecure
Queen Sugar
Best Book to Screen Adaptation
A Wrinkle in Time
Nappily Every After
Beale Street
Greenbook
The Hate U Give
Best Podcast
Rants and Randomness
Hey, girl with Alex Elle
2 Dope Queens
Mattie James
Urban Book of the Year
Love Lost by Porsha Deun
I Need; I Want by Bill Liggins
She Was a Friend of Mine 6 by Jasheem Wilson
Revenge: Urban Love Story by J Brinkle
Sci Fi/Fantasy Writer of the Year
Skin Folk: Stories by Nalo Hopkinson
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
How Long ’til Black Future Month?: Stories by N. K. Jemisin
