Celebrated author and journalist Denene Millner has been awarded the 2025 Townsend Prize for Fiction for her novel “One Blood.” Millner accepted the award last night during a ceremony at Atlanta’s Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, where the literary community gathered to dine and celebrate.
Millner’s “One Blood” is a tale about generational trauma told from the perspectives of three women: an unwed mother forced to place her daughter for adoption, the adoptive mother and their adult daughter, now pregnant with her own daughter. The tale of three generations of Black women traverses racism, classism, prejudice and family secrets.
