Awards
Nigger For Life
- Grand Prize Winner: The Do - It -Yourself Book Festival and 2. The Los Angeles Book Awards
- First Place Prize for Poetry in: The Greater Southeast, Florida, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Great Midwest, Southern California, Do-It-Yourself, San Francisco, National Beverly Hills Book Awards, Great Northwest, Great Southwest, Pacific Rim, Los Angeles, New England, New York Book Awards.
- Finalist-2021 Finalist of Greece’s Eyelands Book Awards – Published Poetry
Winter’s A’ Coming Still
- First Place Prize for Poetry in the Florida, Southern California, San Francisco, New England, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, London, Pacific Rim, Great Midwest, Amsterdam, Great Northwest and Great Southwest Book Awards.
Where Do I Sit
- First Place Prize for Poetry: Hollywood, Northern California, Southern California, Great Midwest Florida, London, Great Northwest, Great Southwest, Los Angles, Paris, San Francisco, New England and New York book awards
Weight of Just Black (Japanese Translation)
- Nominated for the Japan's Best Translation Book Award 2017
Door of No Return
- 2019 National Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Poetry Book
- First Place Prize: New York Poetry Book award
- 2019 Finalist- Eyelands International Book Awards (Greece) – Published poetry
The Trembling Tiber
- 2020 Readers' Favorite International Book Award -Gold Medal Winner - Poetry - Inspirational
- 2019 Winner- Eyelands International Book Awards (Greece) – Unpublished category
Dairy of the Heart manuscript pending publishing
- 2020 Finalist Eyelands International Book Award
- 2020 Winner-Three Rock Writers’ Resort Residency Program. Crete, Greece
The Systems We Caste
- 2020 Winner Wingword International Poetry Prize, Delhi, India- https://cutt.ly/PPUz8z2
2021 Finalist of Greece’s Eyelands Book Awards - Nigger For Life - Published Poetry
2021 National Book Authors Tour -The Trembling Tiber - a black poet’s muse on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
2020 Winner Wingword International Poetry Prize, Delhi, India
2020 Finalist Eyelands International Book Award - Diary of The Heart
2020 Readers' Favorite International Book Award - Gold Medal Winner - Poetry - Inspirational
2020 Winner, Three Rock Writers’ Resort Residency Program. Crete, Greece - Diaries of The Heart
2019 Winner, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Best Poetry Book Award
2019 Winner, Greece’s Eyelands International Book Awards (Greece) - Unpublished poetry category
2019 Finalist, Greece’s Eyelands International Book Award (Greece) - Published poetry category
2019 Runners-Up, The Half and One Prize - One of India’s biggest prize money competitions promoting the best in Indian and international writing
2018 Honorary Citation recognizing Hall’s use of poetry to illuminate & spark conversation about social & racial issues, City Council, City of Philadelphia, PA, USA
2017 Weight of Just Black (Japanese Translation) nominated for Japan's Best Translation Award
2015 Manthan, Hyderabad, India – India’s premier platform for thought leaders worldwide to share their thoughts and for high quality debates. manthanindia.com/about-us/
2015 Aditi Foundation Dhwani Fellowship, Bangalore, India: Kannada translation of Dr. Hall’s work
2012 Poetry Spoken Word Winner, Ubud Writers & Readers’ International Festival, Bali, Indonesia
- Proyecto’ ace, Programa Internacional de Residencias Artisticas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2024
- Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Hokkaido Sapporo, Japan, 2023
- Three Rock Writers’ Resort Residency Program Spring/Summer. Crete, Greece, 2020
- Awarded AIRS Poet in Residence, The Lemon Tree Artist Residency, Siena Province, Italy, 2020
- Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Hokkaido Sapporo, Japan, 2020
- Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Hokkaido Sapporo, Japan, 2019
- The Lemon Tree House, Siena Province, Italy, 2018
- Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Hokkaido Sapporo, Japan, 2017
- Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, USA, 2017
- Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Hokkaido Sapporo, Japan, 2016
- Visiting Scholar - American Academy In Rome, Rome Italy, 2016
- Sangam House International Writer’s Residence, Bangalore, India 2015-2016
- Poet/Scholar-In-Resident, Sponsor: Council For Social Development, Poetry translated into Telugu and Urdu. Hyderabad, India, 2015
- Resident (Poet) In Writing, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, U.S., 2015