Ernest J. Gaines Award Winners

  1. A Killing in This Town: A Novel by Olympia Vernon
  2. Like Trees, Walking by Ravi Howard
  3. Holding Pattern: Stories by Jeffery Renard Allen
  4. Big Machine by Victor LaValle
  5. How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu
  6. We Are Taking Only What We Need by Stephanie Powell Watts
  7. The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
  8. The Residue Years by Mitchell S. Jackson
  9. Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
  10. The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson
  11. The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
  12. A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
  13. Lot by Bryan Washington
  14. Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump
  15. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
  16. Mother Country by Jacinda Townsend
  17. Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal