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EventsBook Discussion: Feeding Ghosts by Tessa Hulls, Led by Dr. Valentino Zullo
Dr. Valentino Zullo, Anisfield-Wolf Postdoctoral Fellow at Ursuline College, will lead a discussion of Tessa Hulls’ AWBA-winning memoir Feeding Ghosts…
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EventsCity Club Friday Forum – Rediscovering Resistance: John Swanson Jacobs and 600,000 Despots
In 1855, an American named John Swanson Jacobs walked into the offices of the Empire newspaper in Sydney, Australia. The…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Book Awards Marks 90 Years of Truth-Telling Through Literature with a Citywide Celebration, Free and Open to the Public
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (AWBA), the only national juried prize for literature that addresses racism and diversity, proudly marks its…
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EventsYard Show: Poetry of Belonging, Nature, and Black Creative Placemaking
Join us at Ohio City Farm for a poetry reading and cultural gathering with acclaimed writer Janice N. Harrington, celebrating her…
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EventsRevival: A Slave Narrative Reawakened
Presented in Partnership with Karamu House Hosted in the Church Hall at the Historic St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ohio…
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EventsDrawn from Memory: The Role of Art in Shaping Identity
Join us at Transformer Station for an afternoon of storytelling, art, and conversation with two groundbreaking creators: Maxine Hong Kingston, a…
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EventsBeyond Representation: Fiction that Illuminates the Complexity of Identity
Join us at Bop Stop, Cleveland’s beloved jazz club, for a vibrant conversation honoring Danzy Senna, winner of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf…
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Anisfield-Wolf Ticket Alerts & Special Content
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards – 90th Anniversary Signup Join us for the 90TH ANNIVERSARY of the ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARDS – the…
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EventsThe 90th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday’s AWBA events start at the Martin L. King, Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library with an opening keynote…
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News2025 Cleveland Book Fest
Cleveland Book Week has been transformed into Cleveland Book Fest, a month-long showcase of literary excellence in Northeast Ohio. This…
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NewsSave the Date for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards 90th Anniversary Weekend
Mark your calendars for a distinguished weekend of literature and camaraderie in celebration of the 90th Anniversary of the Anisfield-Wolf…
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Staff MemberKortney Morrow
Kortney Morrow is a poet, arts advocate, and organizational strategist with over ten years of experience advocating for literacy and…
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2025 Press Release – Winners Announced
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BookThe United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery
A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John…
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BookColored Television
A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex. Jane has high hopes her life…
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BookFeeding Ghosts
In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese history across three generations of women in…
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AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
The winner of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award goes to one of the most prolific poets of the 21st century,…
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News2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Announced, Celebrating 90 Years of Literary Excellence
CLEVELAND — Four groundbreaking works have been named winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the nation’s only endowed juried…
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Events2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony
Tickets will be available on September 2nd through the Maltz Performing Art Center website! The annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony…
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BookYard Show
Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans…