The winners of the 2010 Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards, award annually to authors of African descent for the year's best works in fiction, nonfiction and poetry, are:
Fiction: I Am Not Sidney Poitier: A Novel by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
Poetry (two winners):
Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems, 1966-2009 by Haki R. Madhubuti (Third World Press)
Sonata Mulattica: Poems by Rita Dove (Norton)
Nonfiction: Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original by Robin Kelley (Free Press)