NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP has released the finalists for their 54th Annual Image Awards, honoring outstanding work in film, television, theatre, music, and literature by Black performers and creators.

The Outstanding Literary Work – Fiction category includes the following works of genre interest:

  • The Keeper, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes & Marco Finnegan (Abrams)
  • You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Akwaeke Emezi (Atria)
  • Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda K. Knight, eds. (Tor)

Winners will be announced February 25, 2023 during a live televised broadcast on BET. For more, including complete lists of nominees in all categories, visit the NAACP website.


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