# In the Margins Award

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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

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

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_1-1) ["History"](https://inthemarginssite.blog/about-2/). *In the Margins Book Awards*. 2016-02-20. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["About"](https://inthemarginssite.blog/about-3/). *In the Margins Book Awards*. 2016-02-21. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["2014 In the Margins Top Ten"](https://inthemarginssite.blog/2015-in-the-margins-social-justice-advocacy-award-nominations/). *In the Margins Book Awards*. 2018-09-02. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["2015 Fiction and Nonfiction Recommended List"](https://inthemarginssite.blog/2015-fiction-and-nonfiction-recommended-list/). *In the Margins Book Awards*. 2019-02-17. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Diaz, Shelley (2016-03-16). ["The 2016 In the Margins Book Awards Are Unveiled"](https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=the-2016-in-the-margins-book-awards-are-unveiled). *School Library Journal*. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["2017 Press Release ITM Awards"](https://inthemarginssite.blog/2017/01/30/2017-in-the-margins-book-awards/). *In the Margins Book Awards*. 2017-01-30. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** SLJ (2018-02-14). ["The 2018 In the Margins Book Awards Announced"](https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=2018-margins-book-awards-announced). *School Library Journal*. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** ["2019 Top Ten ITM Titles"](https://inthemarginssite.blog/1445-2/). *In the Margins Book Awards*. 2019-02-06. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** Parrott, Kiera (2019-02-06). [""In the Margins" 2019 Book Awards Announced"](https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=in-the-margins-2019). *School Library Journal*. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Parrott, Kiera (2020-02-12). [""In the Margins" Committee Announces 2020 Book Awards Honoring Marginalized & BIPOC Youth"](https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/?detailStory=in-the-margins-book-awards-2020-bipoc-marginalized-youth-teens-tweens). *School Library Journal*. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** SLJ Staff (2021-02-09). ["In the Margins Book Awards Announced"](https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=in-the-margins-book-awards-announced). *School Library Journal*. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** SLJ Staff (2022-01-31). ["2022 In the Margins Book Awards Announced"](https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=2022-In-the-margins-book-awards-announced). *School Library Journal*. Retrieved 2022-01-31.

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