BEST SPOKENWORD PERFORMANCE FEMALE

Hadiyah “Ya Ya” Bey – Washington, DC/Brooklyn, NY

BEST SPOKENWORD PERFORMANCE MALE

Rasheed Copeland – Washington, DC

BEST SPOKENWORD PERFORMANCE DUO/GROUP

Poemcees – Washington, DC

BEST SPOKENWORD PERFORMANCE YOUTH

Jakayla Hart – Durham, NC

BEST VENUE

Spit Dat – Washington, DC

BEST WRITER MALE (new category)

Hunter G. – Washington, D.C.

BEST WRITER FEMALE (new category)

Bassey Ikpi – New York, NY

C.O.U.P. (Community Oriented Underground Poet)

Jonathan Tucker – Washington, D.C.

HAIKU AWARD (new category)

“Gun Play” – Dwayne Lawson Brown – Washington, DC

HOST OF THE YEAR

Drew “Droopy” Anderson – Washington, DC

MOST INSPIRATIONAL POET (new category)

Sunni Patterson – Houston, TX/New Orleans, LA

POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR

My Name is Jason; Mine Too – Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin – New York, NY

SPOKENWORD ALBUM OF THE YEAR

California Suite – Taalam Acey – Baltimore, MD/Newark, NJ