Past Events

Yard Show: Poetry of Belonging, Nature, and Black Creative Placemaking

September 20, 2025, 4:00 pm

Revival: A Slave Narrative Reawakened

September 20, 2025, 3:00 pm

Drawn from Memory: The Role of Art in Shaping Identity

September 20, 2025, 2:00 pm

Beyond Representation: Fiction that Illuminates the Complexity of Identity

September 20, 2025, 1:00 pm

The 90th Anniversary Celebration

September 20, 2025, 9:00 am

2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

September 19, 2025, 6:30 pm

City Club Friday Forum – Rediscovering Resistance: John Swanson Jacobs and 600,000 Despots

September 19, 2025, 11:30 am

Book Discussion: Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls, Led by Dr. Valentino Zullo

September 10, 2025, 1:00 pm

Spring Discussion Series – Brothers & Keepers

May 21, 2025, 4:00 pm

Spring Discussion Series – Paula

April 16, 2025, 4:00 pm

CANCELLED: 2025 Winners Announcement Event with Kaveh Akbar & Hanif Abdurraqib

April 10, 2025, 7:30 pm

Spring Discussion Series – Memorial Drive

March 19, 2025, 4:00 pm

Great Lakes African American Writers Conference (GLAAWC)

October 5 – October 6, 2024

#CLEreads Young Adult Book Festival

October 1, 2024, 9:00 am

When Artists Go to Work: The 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Author Symposium

September 28, 2024, 11:00 am

2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

September 27, 2024, 6:30 pm

AWBA City Club Friday Forum with Ned Blackhawk

September 27, 2024, 11:30 am

Free Book Giveaway at the WestSide Market

September 22, 2024, 10:00 am

Literary Cleveland Inkubator Writing Conference

September 20 – September 21, 2024

2024 Anisfield-Wolf Award Book Discussions

September 17 – December 17, 2024