Feb 8 2008
Essence.com Announces Its Winners
Essence held its first annual Literary Award ceremony last night. The Storyteller of the Year Award was given to LA Banks, author of the Vampire Huntress series. The Storyteller of the Year award is voted on by the ESSENCE readers.
It has awarded the The Pirate’s Daughter by Margaret Cezair-Thompson its first ever Essence Literary Award for fiction.
Terry McMillan was given the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. There was a certain synergy in this award since McMillan had won ESSENCE’s first ever college-writing contest in 1974.
All other winners can be seen at the Essence.com site.
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Feb 09, 2008 @ 00:56:20
Major congrats to LA Banks. She deserves it, and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer woman.
Feb 09, 2008 @ 07:51:35
Thanks for the info, Jane. Very interesting.
Feb 09, 2008 @ 09:09:53
CONGRATS to LA! I agree there’s not a nicer chick in the biz.
Feb 09, 2008 @ 13:52:16
Woot! Woot! I don’t normally do the neck biters, but I do like hers.
Feb 10, 2008 @ 04:09:46
Yeah L.A.! Love her VHL series!