2021 Nominees

BLACKSTARKIDS

Whatever, Man

from Dirty Hit

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Jessica Contrera

“The Lives Upended Around a $20 Cheeseburger”

from The Washington Post

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Thalia Field and Abigail Lang

Leave to Remain

from Dalkey Archive

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Sasha Geffen

Glitter Up the Dark: How Pop Music Broke the Binary

from UT Press

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Fowzia Karimi

Above Us the Milky Way

from Deep Vellum

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Hil Malatino

Trans Care

from University of Minnesota Press

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Wesley Morris

“My Mustache, My Self”

from The New York Times Magazine

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Jennifer Schaffer

“Certain Unflattering Truths”

from The Baffler

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Namwali Serpell

Stranger Faces

from Transit Books

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Danez Smith

“Crying, Laughing, Crying, at the George Floyd Protests in Minneapolis”

from The New Yorker

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Justin Taylor

Riding With the Ghost: A Memoir

from Penguin

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John Wilson

How To With John Wilson: “Small Talk”

from HBO

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