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Hurston Wright: 25 Years of Serving Black Writers

Help the Hurston/Wright Foundation celebrate 25 years of service by supporting its $25,000 campaign!

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Hurston Wright: 25 Years of Serving Black Writers

Hurston Wright: 25 Years of Serving Black Writers

Hurston Wright: 25 Years of Serving Black Writers

Hurston Wright: 25 Years of Serving Black Writers

Hurston Wright: 25 Years of Serving Black Writers

Help the Hurston/Wright Foundation celebrate 25 years of service by supporting its $25,000 campaign!

Help the Hurston/Wright Foundation celebrate 25 years of service by supporting its $25,000 campaign!

Help the Hurston/Wright Foundation celebrate 25 years of service by supporting its $25,000 campaign!

Help the Hurston/Wright Foundation celebrate 25 years of service by supporting its $25,000 campaign!

The Hurston/Wright Foundation
The Hurston/Wright Foundation
The Hurston/Wright Foundation
The Hurston/Wright Foundation
1 Campaign |
Washington, United States
$5,305 USD 32 backers
21% of $25,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

Short Summary

Greetings! 

In 1990, the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation was created as the only 501c3 organization of its kind to discover, develop and honor Black authors of fine literature, nonfiction, and poetry. 

Named after Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Richard Wright (Native Son) - two literary icons from the Harlem Renaissance - Hurston/Wright has mentored and awarded hundreds of teen and adult writers across the country with workshops, financial awards and scholarships, writing competitions, and other in-kind support. 

2015 will make Hurston/Wright’s 25th year of service, and we're asking our many supporters, and fans of reading to celebrate with us by contributing towards this campaign to ensure the foundation’s fiscal strength.  

Help Hurston/Wright raise $25,000 towards another 25 years of great programs for the literary community, and launching our dream of creating literary and cultural center headquartered in Washington, D.C. for award-winning and aspiring Black writers. 

What We Need & What You Get

  • OUR GOAL: $25,000 - But, it's always great to surpass your goal ;-) 
  • YOUR GIFTS: $25 DONORS - Shoutouts on Hurston/Wright's FacebookTwitter and Instagram sites. $50 DONORS - The social media shoutouts and an author signed copy of an autographed copy of It’s All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends - an anthology published by Broadway books to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation. $100 DONORS - The social media shoutouts and an author signed copy of  an autographed copy of It’s All Love and an autographed copy of Gumbo - an anthology of 73 Black writers edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris and published by Doubleday to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation.  $250 DONORS - The social media shoutouts and autographed copies of It’s All Love, Gumbo, and The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood.  $500 DONORS - The social media shoutouts and autographed copies of It’s All Love, Gumbo, The Butler, and Pulitzer-Prize winner, The Warmth of Other Suns The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson and a ticket to attend The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Ceremony in October 2015. $1,000 DONORS - The social media shoutouts, autographed books, two tickets to The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Ceremony and 25th Anniversary Celebration in October 2015, and guest attendance at our Writers' Week panels, seminars and readings during July 2015. $5,000 DONORS - All of the above and four invitations to a special VIP dinner with the Hurston/Wright 2015 Legacy Awards honorees in October 2015.

Your Impact

  • Helping the Hurston/Wright Foundation celebrate its 25th anniversary and sustain its fiscal strength for years to come.
  • Supporting Hurston/Wright's dream of creating a literary and cultural space headquartered in Washington, D.C. that will be a home for the foundation's programs and events, and for Black writers creating , researching, and writing new work.
  • Providing monetary awards to talented college students who excel in writing engaging works of fiction and poetry.
  • Financially supporting a nonprofit that has honored literary greats such as Nikki Giovanni, Junot Diaz, Edward P. Jones, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Edwidge Danicat, Wil Haygood and Percival Everett. 

Other Ways You Can Help

Please share this campaign with your family, friends and colleagues who love award-winning literature, nonfiction and poetry, and spread the word via Facebook and Twitter. 
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Social Media Shoutouts

$25 USD
Shoutouts on Hurston/Wright’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram channels.
Estimated Shipping
February 2015
4 out of 80 of claimed

Autographed - It’s All Love

$50 USD
The social media shoutouts and an autographed copy of It’s All Love Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends - an anthology published by Broadway books to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation. This inspiring anthology features some of your favorite writers, many of whom are alumni of Hurston/Wright workshops and winners of Hurston/Wright awards.
Estimated Shipping
February 2015
3 out of 40 of claimed

Autographed - Gumbo

$100 USD
The social media shoutouts, an autographed copy of It’s All Love and an autographed copy of Gumbo an anthology of 73 Black writers edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris, and published by Doubleday to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation.
Estimated Shipping
February 2015
4 out of 20 of claimed

Autographed - The Butler

$250 USD
The social media shoutouts, autographed copies of It’s All Love, Gumbo, and The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood
Estimated Shipping
February 2015
0 out of 8 of claimed

Books & Legacy Awards Ceremony

$500 USD
The social media shoutouts, It’s All Love, Gumbo, The Butler, an autographed copy of the Pulitzer-Prize winner, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson and a ticket to attend The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Ceremony and 25th Anniversary Celebration in October 2015.
1 out of 4 of claimed

Hurston/Wright's Writers' Week

$1,000 USD
The social media shoutouts, autographed copies of It’s All Love, edited by Marita Golden, Gumbo, edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris , The Butler: A Witness to History by Wil Haygood, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson, two tickets to The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards Ceremony and 25th Anniversary Celebration in October 2015, and guest attendance at all panels, seminars and readings during Hurston/Wright's Writers' Week in July 2015.
3 out of 5 of claimed

Hurston/Wright VIP Dinner

$5,000 USD
All of the items from the $1,000 level and four invitations to a special VIP dinner with Hurston/Wright 2015 Legacy Awards honorees in October 2015.
0 out of 2 of claimed

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