Hurston/Wright Foundation

AWARD FOR COLLEGE WRITERS

Cheswayo Gabriel Mphanza of Newark, New Jersey, and Shakarean Hutchinson of Ithaca, New York, both won the Hurston/Wright Founding Members Award for College Writers. Mphanza won in poetry for a group of poems; Brian G. Gilmore judged. Hutchinson won in fiction for her story “How to Kill Pigs;” H. G. Carrillo judged. They each received $1,000 and an invitation to the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Ceremony in Washington, D.C. in October. The annual awards, cosponsored by Amistad Press, are given for a poem and a short story by black students enrolled full-time in an undergraduate or graduate program. The next deadline is February 1, 2018.