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    Literary Cleveland Inkubator Community Events

    September 14 – September 15, 2024

    Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Writing Conference is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country, providing workshops, craft talks,…

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    Literary Cleveland Inkubator Writing Conference

    September 20 – September 21, 2024

    Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Writing Conference is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country, providing workshops, craft talks,…

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    Jamie Hickner

    September 9, 2024

    Jamie Hickner has a Ph.D in American Studies and teaches in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University as…

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

    September 28, 2024, 11:00 am

    “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair. No place for self-pity. No…

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    2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony

    September 27, 2024, 6:30 pm

    Presented by the Cleveland Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards remain the only American book prize focusing on works that address…

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    AWBA City Club Friday Forum with Ned Blackhawk

    September 27, 2024, 11:30 am

    The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and…

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    89th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

    August 20, 2024

    Join us for the 89th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (AWBA), honoring our 2024 winners: Ned Blackhawk, Teju Cole, Monica Youn…

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    Kevin Quinn

    August 19, 2024

    Kevin Quinn is a teacher, writer and critic. He received his bachelor’s degree in English from Yale University with a…

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    Philip Metres

    August 19, 2024

    Philip Metres is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon 2024), Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge…

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    Tremor

    Teju Cole

    “Tremor,” a sinuous meditation on art and life, at once elegant and steely, tells the story of Tunde, an academic…

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    The Rediscovery of America

    Ned Blackhawk

    “The Rediscovery of America” offers a sweeping yet fine-grained history of Indigenous peoples on the lands and waters that now make…

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    From From

    Monica Youn

    “From From” is a brilliant collection of poems lush with detail in its meditations on myth, history, popular culture, and…

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    Maxine Hong Kingston

    Some of the most storied, and studied, lines of 20th-century American literature landed in 1976. They came from a math…

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    Introducing the Class of 2024

    March 26, 2024

    The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented by the Cleveland Foundation, today announced the winners of the 89th annual awards. The 2024…

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    2024 Winners Announcement with Percival Everett

    March 26, 2024, 7:00 pm

    Join us when author Percival Everett visits to discuss his latest novel, James, followed by an announcement of the 89th Anisfield-Wolf…

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    Matthew Delmont at Cuyahoga Community College for Common Reading program

    February 13 – February 14, 2024

    Matthew F. Delmont, author of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winning Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War…

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    New Director, Jurors Announced for Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

    February 8, 2024

    Nicholas Roman Lewis has joined the Cleveland Foundation as the Director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Lewis, who has served…

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    Teaching Gods of the Upper Air

    Level: Young Adult

    Developed by Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski, Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow, Case Western Reserve University Recent attacks on healthcare and critical race theory…

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    Hidden Figures – Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    Book: Hidden Figures

    Level: Young Adult

    By Gabrielle M.W. Bychowski In 1959, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in nonfiction…

  • Podcasts

    Season 3 BONUS EPISODE: Novelist Karan Mahajan

    October 26, 2023

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    Born in Stamford, Conn., Karan Mahajan grew up in New Delhi, where as a young teenager he covered cricket for…