In the Margins Award

Annual literary award

The In the Margins Award, established in 2013, is an annual literary award presented to fiction and nonfiction "self published books by, for and about people of color living in the margins."[1] The primary audience of the books is generally individuals aged 9-21 who are Black, Indigenous People of Color; "youth from a street culture," "youth in restrictive custody," and/or "youth who are reluctant readers."[2]

The In the Margins Award was established as part of the Library Services for Youth in Custody but since 2017, has operated independently.[1]

## Recipients

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In the Margins Award Top 10 (2014-present)  Year  | Genre  | Author  | Title  | Ref.

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2014  | Fiction  | Paul Langan | Survivor | [3]
Sharon E McKay and Daniel Lafance (Illus.)  | War Brothers: The Graphic Novel
Terra Elan McVoy | Criminal
Meg Medina | Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass
Susan Nussbaum | Good Kings, Bad Kings
Jeff Rivera | No Matter What
Darlene Ryan | Pieces of Me
Pamela Samuels Young | Anybody’s Daughter
Nonfiction  | M. K. Asante | Buck: A Memoir
Marilyn Denise Jones | From Crack to College and Vice Versa
2015  | Fiction  | Lynne Ewing | The Lure | [4]
Ashley Little | Anatomy of a Girl Gang
Kekla Magoon | How It Went Down
Jason Reynolds | When I Was the Greatest
P. D. Workman | Ruby: Between the Cracks (Volume 1)
Nonfiction  | Pacc Butler | From God’s Monster to the Devil’s Angel
Ebony Canion | Left for Dead
Michelle Miles | The High Price I Had to Pay 2: Sentenced to 30 Years as a Nonviolent, First Time Offender
Rayshawn Wilson | Lionheart: Coming from Where I’m From
Angela Beth Zusman | The Griots of Oakland: Voices from the African American Oral History Project
2016  | Fiction  | Kevin Deutch | The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York’s Bloods and Crips | [5]
E. R. Frank | Dime
Peggy Kern | Little Peach
Patti Laboucane-Benson | The Outside Circle
PD Workman | Tattooed Teardrops
Nonfiction  | Tewhan Butler | America’s Massacre: The Audacity of Despair and a Message of Hope
Alton Carter | The Boy Who Carried Bricks: A True Story of Survival
Tony Lewis, Jr. | Slugg: A Boy’s Life in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Richard Ross | Girls In Justice
Julian Voloj | Ghetto Brother: Warrior to Peacemaker
2017  | Fiction  | Christy Lynn Abram | Little Miss Somebody | [6]
Michael McLellan | American Flowers
Nonfiction  | Alton Carter | Aging Out: A True Story
Kathleen Glasgow | Girl in Pieces
Ben Westhoff | Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
S. C. Sterling | Teenage Degenerate
Ni-Ni Simone | Dear Yvette
C. Desire | Other Broken Things
Jeffry W. Johnston | The Truth
Free Minds Book Club | The Untold Story of the Real Me: Young Voices from Prison
2018  | Fiction  | Beacon House Writers. K. Crutcher (Ed.) with Z. Gatti (Design)  | The Day Tajon Got Shot | [7]
Peter Edwards | The Biker’s Brother
Beth Goobie | The Pain Eater
William Kowalski | Jumped In
Tony Medina with John Jennings and Stacey Robinson (Illus.)  | I am Alfonso Jones
Colleen Nelson | Blood Brothers
Christopher Paslay | White Flight
Nonfiction  | Eve Porinchak | One Cut
Taura Stinson and Stacey Debono (Eds.) and Glenn Adhama (Illus.)  | 100 Things Every Black Girl Should Know
Poetry  | rm drake | Broken Flowers: And Other Stairways to Heaven
2019  | Fiction  | Hobson Brandon | Where the Dead Sit Talking | [8][9]
2E G  | Queenpin
Brown Kevin | Hard Knocks High: Darkskins and Redbones
Colfer Eoin, Andrew Donkin, and Giovanni Rigano (Illus.)  | Illegal
Nonfiction  | Goozh Judi and Sue Jeweler  | Tell Me About When Moms and Dads Go to Jail: Tell Me About Jail
Goozh Judi and Sue Jeweler  | Tell Me About When Moms and Dads Come Home From Jail: Tell Me About Jail
Griffin-Wallace Valencia | Motherless Child: A Journey of Growing Up and Forgiving
Hawkins Lamont U-God | Raw: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang
Hobson Brandon | Where the Dead Sit Talking
Krosoczka Jarrett | Hey, Kiddo
Latin American Youth Center Writers and Santiago Casares  | Voces sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth
Ramos Nonieqa | The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary
2020  | Fiction  | Tasha Spillett-Sumner and Natasha Donavan  | Surviving the City | [10]
Sonia Patel | Bloody Seoul
René Colato Laínez and Fabricio Vanden Broeck  | My Shoes and I: Crossing Three Borders / Mis Zapatos y Yo: Cruzando tres Fronteras
Annette D. Taylor | Dreams on Fire
Erika T. Wurth | You Who Enter Here
Nonfiction  | Tytianna N. M. Wells and Ashley Cathey  | When Hip Hop Met Poetry: An Urban Love Story
Johnathan Harris and Gary Leach  | Colorblind: A Story on Racism
Jean Mendoza, Debbie Reese, and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People (ReVisioning American History for Young People)
Rex Ogle | Free Lunch
Damon Young | What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
2021  | Fiction  | Normandy D. Piccolo | Why is Kristyn a Kutter? | [11]
James Price | The Comeback: I Raised These Streets
David A. Robertson, Scott B. Henderson, and Donavan Yaciuk  | The Reckoner Rise: Breakdown
Michael W. Waters and Keisha Morris  | For Beautiful Black Boys Who Believe in a Better World
Nonfiction  | Mark Bleschke | Into the Streets: A Young Person’s Visual History of Protest in the United States
Heather Gale and Mika Song  | Ho'onani: Hula Warrior
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bendele  | When They Call You a Terrorist: A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World
Passage Academy Students at Belmont  | Everything I Been Through
2022  | Fiction  | Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson | Milo Imagines the World | [12]
Sharon G. Flake | The Life I’m In
Free Minds Writers  | They Called Me 299-359: Poetry by the Incarcerated Youth of Free Minds
Emolie Kpadea, Japan Spells, Damarco Taylor, and Rob Gibson  | And Justice for Who?
Nonfiction  | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell | Run: Book One
Chella Man and Ashley Lukashevsky | Continuum (A Pocket Change Collective)
Marcia Argueta Mickelson | Where I Belong
Victorya Rouse | Finding Refuge: Real Life Immigration Stories From Young People
Elisabet Velasquez | When We Make It
Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa, and Matt Sasaki  | We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance at Wartime Incarceration

## References

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1. ^ a b "History". In the Margins Book Awards. 2016-02-20. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
2. ^ "About". In the Margins Book Awards. 2016-02-21. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
3. ^ "2014 In the Margins Top Ten". In the Margins Book Awards. 2018-09-02. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
4. ^ "2015 Fiction and Nonfiction Recommended List". In the Margins Book Awards. 2019-02-17. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
5. ^ Diaz, Shelley (2016-03-16). "The 2016 In the Margins Book Awards Are Unveiled". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
6. ^ "2017 Press Release ITM Awards". In the Margins Book Awards. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
7. ^ SLJ (2018-02-14). "The 2018 In the Margins Book Awards Announced". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
8. ^ "2019 Top Ten ITM Titles". In the Margins Book Awards. 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
9. ^ Parrott, Kiera (2019-02-06). ""In the Margins" 2019 Book Awards Announced". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
10. ^ Parrott, Kiera (2020-02-12). ""In the Margins" Committee Announces 2020 Book Awards Honoring Marginalized & BIPOC Youth". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
11. ^ SLJ Staff (2021-02-09). "In the Margins Book Awards Announced". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
12. ^ SLJ Staff (2022-01-31). "2022 In the Margins Book Awards Announced". School Library Journal. Retrieved 2022-01-31.