Hannah V. Sawyerr
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Hannah V. Sawyerr
Poet & Storyteller

Honors & Awards

2025 Junior Library Guild Golden Standard Selection, Truth Is

2025 YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, Top Ten Title, All the Fighting Parts

2024 William C. Morris Debut Award Finalist, The American Library Association

2024 Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book, We Need Diverse Books

2024 Top 10 Rise: A Feminist Book Project Title, The American Library Association

2024 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, YALSA/The American Library Association

2023 Cybils Award Finalist (Poetry), Cybils Awards

Kirkus Reviews, Best Young Adult Books of the Year, All the Fighting Parts

Reader’s Digest, Best Books of the Year, All the Fighting Parts

September/October 2023 Kids’ Indie Next Pick, The American Booksellers Association

Summer/Fall 2023 Indies Introduce Pick, The American Booksellers Association

School Library Journal, Starred Review, All the Fighting Parts

Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review, All the Fighting Parts

Adele V. Holden Creative Writing Prize, New Voices Award, 2016

Best Up-And-Coming Poet, Baltimore City Paper, 2016

NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) Competition 3rd place National Level, 2014

NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) Competition 1st place New Jersey State Level, 2014