And now, the nominees are…
The nominations have been counted, and we are finally ready to announce the official nominees for the 2021 AAMBC Awards. This year’s list celebrates who’s-who in publishing and film. These heavyweights and dazzling up-and-comers have dominated their lane in 2021. Get ready to vote for your favorite now and register to attend the digital award show here.
And now, the nominees are…
YouTuber of the Year
Gotdamn Zo for Messy Monday
Lovely Ti
For Harriet
Brago D. Ace
85 South
RDC World 1
Book Club of the Year
Noname’s Book Club
Black Men Read
Mocha Girls Read
Reading While Black
For Colored Girls Book Club
Motion Picture of the Year
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
THE PHOTOGRAPH
Jingle Jangle
The 40 year Old Version
The Clark Sisters
Reviewer of the Year *
Book and Sensibility
Brazen Babe Reviews
Literally Black
Book Girl Magic
AALBC
Literary Activist
Antoinette Scully
Jeff Friday
Gil Robertson
Kima Jones
Glory Edim
Breakout Author of the Year *
Kiley Reid for Such a Fun Age
Christina Hammonds Reed for The Black Kids
Echo Brown for Black Girl Unlimited
Raven Leilani for Luster
Brandon Taylor for Real Life
Blogger of the Year *
Jamie Morgan of Absorbed in Pages
Book and Sensibility
Kenitra Mounger
Renée Hicks /Book Girl Magic
Leelynn of Sometimes Leelynn Reads
Independent Digital Publisher of the Year *
Lock Down Publications
Cole Heart
KC Mills Presents
Wahida Clark Publishing
Urban Books
Good 2 Go Publishing
Publisher of the Year *
Dafina Books
Algonquin Books
Riverhead Books
Vintage Books
Source Books
eBook of the Year *
When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole
The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
Butterfly by Ashley Antoinette
Non- Fiction/Self Help Book of the Year *
The Beauty In Breaking by Michele Harper
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir by George M. Johnson
Stop Telling Women To Smile by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture by Emma Dabiri
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
Editor of the Year *
Tia Ross
Danielle C. Belton for The Root
Janee’ Bolden for Bossip
Danielle Canada for Bossip
Gerren Keith Gaynor for The Grio
Street Lit Writer of the Year *
Collateral by De’Nesha Diamond
Black Lotus 2: The Vow by K’Wan
Influence: Death on the Beach: An Influence by Carl Weber
Money Devils 1: A Cartel Novel by Ashley & JaQuavis
Vexed by Honey
Truce 2: The War of The Lou’s by Toy Styles
Male Author of the Year *
Walter Mosley by Trouble Is What I Do
Derrick Barnes for I Am Every Good Thing
James Mc Bride for Deacon King Kong
Jerry Craft for Class Act
Julian Winters for The Summer of Everything
Christian Fiction Author of the Year *
Kim Cash Tate for As Long As I Cling (A Promises of God Novel Book 4)
Brenda Barrett for Ace
JC Miller for They Call Me Gomer
Michelle Stimpson for Mama B: A Time to Forgive
Kimberla Lawson Roby for Here and Now
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Author of the Year
Phoenix Williams for of Queens of Beasts 5: The Trappings of War
P. Djèlí Clark for Ring Shout
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseann Brown
Podcast of the Year
The Read
The Nod
The Stack Podcast
Black Girl Nerds
Therapy For Black Girls
Romance Author of the Year *
Talia Hibbert for Take A Hint, Dani Brown
Alyssa Cole for How to Catch a Queen
Jasmine Guillory for Party of Two
Yahrah St. John for Claimed by the Hero (The Mitchell Brothers Book 1)
Farrah Rochon for The Boyfriend Project
Female Author of the Year *
Morgan Jerkins for Wandering In Strange Lands
Natasha Trethewey for Memorial Drive: A Memoir
Yaa Gyasi for Transcendent Kingdom: A novel
Peace Adzo Medie for His Only Wife
Nic Stone for Dear Justyce
Bookstagrammer of the Year
Taryn
Sarah of Black&Bookish
Sol of The Soul Reader
Reggie Reads
Jeanelle Nicole
Magazine of the Year *
Black Enterprise
Rolling Out
Sheen Magazine
Crwn Magazine
Radiant Health Magazine
Vanguard of Urban Media *
Epic Reads
Blavity
Unbothered
Book Riot
Goodreads
Children Books/YA Author of the Year *
Kalynn Bayron for Cinderella is Dead
Bethany C. Morrow for Song Below Water
Janae Marks for From the Desk of Zoe Washington
Brandy Colbert for The Only Black Girls in Town
Candice Iloh for Every Body Looking
Leah Johnson for You Should See Me in a Crown
Urban Book of the Year *
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
Transcendant Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
Lakewood by Megan Giddings
Screenwriter of the Year *
Radha Blank for The 40-Year-Old Version
Stella Meghie for The photograph
Misha Green for Lovecraft Country
David E. Talbert for Jingle Jangle
Attica Locke for Little Fires Everywhere
Television Show of the Year
P Valley
Sistas
Lovecraft Country
Woke
Godfather of Harlem
In a little over a month, the winners will be announced. Make sure your faves get over the finish line by voting for them! The 2021 AAMBC Awards will be hosted virtually this year. Follow us on all things social to make sure that you are a part of the biggest, blackest, literary event of the year.
