PERFECT BLACK by Crystal Wilkinson – pictured above - has won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry – presented at their 53rd Annual Image Award ceremony.
PERFECT BLACK also made Elle magazine's list of 38 Black History Books to read this year.
George Ella Lyon was the guest of honor at the bimonthly series from the Library of Congress’s podcast, “The Poet and the Poem,” in the middle of February.
A TWILIGHT REEL by Michael Amos Cody is the winner in the short Story category of the Feathered Quill Book Award.
WHERE I CAN’T FOLLOW by Ashley Blooms has been named a most anticipated book by Good Housekeeping, Gizmodo, Den of Geek, and Tor.com. It has also been long-listed for the Crook's Book Prize.