| Black Reel Award for Outstanding Writing, Drama Series | |
| Awarded For: | Outstanding Writing, Drama Series |
| Presenter: | Black Reel Awards for Television |
| Country: | United States |
| Holder: | Kay Oyegun & Eboni FreemanThis Is Us (2021) |
The Black Reel Award for Television for Outstanding Writing, Drama Series is an annual award given in honor of a writer or writers who produced an outstanding story or screenplay for an episode of a television drama series during the primetime network season episode of the year.
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominee | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 1st [1] [2] | ||||
| Luke Cage | "Moment of Truth" | Cheo Hodari Coker | Netflix | |
| Empire | "Toil and Trouble, Part 1" | Eric Haywood & Diane Ademu-John | FOX | |
| How to Get Away With Murder | "There Are Worse Things Than Murder" | Angela Robinson | ABC | |
| This Is Us | "The Right Thing to Do" | Aurin Squire | NBC | |
| Queen Sugar | "First Things First" | Ava DuVernay | OWN | |
| 2018 (2nd) [3] | ||||
| This Is Us | "This Big, Amazing Beautiful Life" | Kay Oyegun | NBC | |
| Queen Sugar | "Dream Variations" | Ava DuVernay | OWN | |
| The Chi | "Pilot" | Lena Waithe | Showtime | |
| Queen Sugar | "Heritage" | Monica Macer & Davita Scarlett | OWN | |
| This Is Us | "Number Three" | Shukree Tilghman | NBC | |
| 2019 3rd [4] | ||||
| This Is Us | "Our Little Island Girl" | Eboni Freeman | NBC | |
| Claws | "Scream" | Maisha Closson | TNT | |
| Pose | "Love is the Message" | Janet Mock & Ryan Murphy | FX | |
| God Friended Me | "Unfriended" | Safia M. Dirie | CBS | |
| This Is Us | "R&B" | Kay Oyegun | NBC |
| Year | Program | Episode | Nominee | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 4th [5] [6] | ||||
| This Is Us | "A Hell of a Week: Part One" | Jon Dorsey | NBC | |
| Pose | "Never Knew Love Like This Before" | Janet Mock & Ryan Murphy | FX | |
| Queen Sugar | "Where My Body Stops or Begins" | Mike Flynn | OWN | |
| Hunters | "(Ruth 1:16)" | Zakiyyah Alexander | Amazon Prime Video | |
| Black Lightning | "The Book of Markova: Chapter Four: Grab the Strap" | Charles D. Holland & Asheleigh O. Conley | CW | |
| 2021 5th [7] [8] | ||||
| This Is Us | "Birth Mother" | Kay Oyegun & Eboni Freeman | NBC | |
| Lovecraft Country | "Jig-a-Bobo" | Misha Green | HBO | |
| The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | "New World Order" | Malcolm Spellman | Disney+ | |
| The Mandalorian | "Chapter 15: The Believer" | Ricky Famuyiwa | Disney+ | |
| Snowfall | "Sleeping Dogs" | Justin Hillian | FX |