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The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series brings the literary world’s best writers to Cleveland. The 2021-2022 series is presented by the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation and Case…

Deesha Philyaw will deliver the 2021 Langston Hughes Literary keynote at the 2021 GLAAWC conference at 11 am. Her debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” won…

Novelist Marlon James and Historian Vincent Brown will crack open their ideas in a unique conversation centered on Jamaica. The island is a lynchpin in world history, and a wellspring…

Join the campus-wide read of former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey’s “Memorial Drive,” praised as an instant classic. The memoir explores her mother’s life and death and the abiding tie…

Join the NEOMFA Reading Series for a reading, conversation, and Q&A featuring a pair of Anisfield-Wolf winning poets. Chang won this year for “Obit,” while McCrae was the 2018 winner…

Cave Canem and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards invite you to celebrate Black History Month by joining in “A Tribute to Russell Atkins.” Poet, playwright and composer, Atkins’ work has had…

Donika Kelly spent her first 13 years in Los Angeles, born into a time and place where tenderness, as she describes it, was elusive. “The Renunciations” responds to her childhood…

Ishmael Scott Reed, poet, novelist, playwright, lyricist, cartoonist, musician and founder of small presses and publications, has remade literature. He has done so across six decades with satire, curiosity, teaching…

In the introduction to “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia,” George Makari describes a hinge moment in his intellectual life. During his senior year at Brown University, he…

Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California and erstwhile cowboy, was at work on a novel, researching lynching, in the year before the pandemic…

Tiya Miles grew up in Cincinnati listening to family stories, a practice that whetted her appetite for history, sparked her scholarship and led eventually to a MacArthur “genius” grant and…

Presented by the Cleveland Foundation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards remain the only American book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity. We look forward to a galvanizing night…

‍Literary Cleveland will kick off the 2022 Book Week with the Inkubator Writing Conference, with online literary panels running September 6-8. The in-person component returns to the downtown Cleveland Public…

The Great Lakes African American Writers Conference (GLAAWC, pronounced “glossy”) will relocate this year to its new home at the Cleveland Public Library, Main Branch in downtown Cleveland. The conference…

Join us to explore the intersection of self-reflection, creativity, and healing from trauma with author of The Renunciations and 2022 Anisfield-Wolf winner for poetry, Donika Kelly. In partnership with the…

Join us as we welcome author George Makari in a conversation on xenophobia with Case Western Reserve University Department of History Chair and Theodore J. Castele Professor, Dr. Jonathan Sadowsky….

The New Yorker called Ishmael Reed “a founding father of American multiculturalism,” and “America’s most fearless satirist.” A colleague at The University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for 35…

Before Cleveland Book Week officially begins, join Praxis Fiber Arts and the African American Doll and Quilt Guild for a discussion of Tiya Miles‘ Anisfield-Wolf award-winning book, “All That She Carried,” the…

Join the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, The Cleveland Foundation and Lake View Cemetery as we celebrate in the cemetery’s Community Mausoleum for a reading and book signing of Victoria Chang’s 2021…

Join Black Environmental Leaders (BEL) and 2022 Anisfield-Wolf winner for fiction Percival Everett in a one-of-a-kind community event. Early in 2022, the story of John Jordon began to resurface more…