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Join us as award-winning poet Adrian Matejka announces the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners. Matejka won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2014 for The Big Smoke, a marvelous, nuanced, polyphonic…

Geraldine Brooks, award-winning war correspondent and Pulitzer-winning novelist, upended her life 16 years ago when she took a trail ride and found herself horse-smitten. When a horse of her own…

“The Family Chao” is a story of patricide; its plot in delicious parallel with “The Brothers Karamazov.” “At the center of ‘The Family Chao’ breathes the charismatic Leo Chao, tyrannical…

More than a decade before the U.S military desegregated in 1948, American volunteers fought in racially integrated units – called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade — to battle fascism in Spain….

Seventy years ago, as a young child in Covington, Georgia, Charlayne Hunter-Gault sat at her grandmother’s knee each evening, waiting for the older woman to finish reading her newspapers so…

Readers flock to poet Saeed Jones for his mischief, his warmth, his gift with language and what the Kirkus Prize calls his “tenacious honesty.” More than 226,000 people follow his…

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 2023 Book Week with the Inkubator Writing Conference, with online literary panels running September 18-20. The in-person component arrives at the downtown Cleveland Public Library…

Join the Cleveland Foundation, Karamu House, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards as we host Saeed Jones, the 2023 winner for poetry, to kick off the first Anisfield-Wolf author event of…

Join the Cleveland Foundation and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards as we host Geraldine Brooks for a conversation about “Horse,” a 2023 Anisfield-Wolf winner for fiction. It centers on a stallion…

Join East Tech High School, the Cleveland Foundation, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards as we host Matthew F. Delmont, author of “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting…

Join the Cleveland Foundation and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards as we host Lan Samantha Chang to discuss “The Family Chao,” a 2023 winner for fiction. It took Lan Samantha Chang,…

The Great Lakes African American Writers Conference (GLAAWC, pronounced “glossy”) will return to its home at the Cleveland Public Library, Main Branch in downtown Cleveland. Poet, composer, playwright, and professor…

Join our 2023 lifetime achievement winner Charlayne Hunter-Gault at the City Club’s Friday Forum during Cleveland Book Week. Hunter-Gault first made history in 1961 when she desegregated the University of…

Thrity Umrigar, Distinguished University Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University, is the best-selling author of the novels Honor, Bombay Time, The Space Between Us, If Today Be Sweet,…

Free and open access to information is a fundamental value in a healthy democracy. Launched in 1982, Banned Books Week is an annual event that celebrates the freedom to read….

Matthew F. Delmont, author of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award-winning Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, will be on the Cuyahoga…

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

“From From” is a brilliant collection of poems lush with detail in its meditations on myth, history, popular culture, and art. With elegant precision, a vision both unflinching and clinical,…

“Tremor,” a sinuous meditation on art and life, at once elegant and steely, tells the story of Tunde, an academic and artist – his specialty is photography – who hails…