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2022 Awards Ceremony – Full Length
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News7th Annual Cleveland Book Week, Cover to Cover
Book lovers gathered in person for the first time since 2019 to celebrate Cleveland Book Week this fall, with a…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Fellow Valentino Zullo is Shaping the Future through Comics
“Fantasy drives us all,” declares Professor Valentino L. Zullo, the inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Post-Doctoral Fellow in English and Public Humanities at…
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Events“Of Fear and Strangers”: Author George Makari at Cleveland Botanical Gardens
Join us as we welcome author George Makari in a conversation on xenophobia with Case Western Reserve University Department of…
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EventsIshmael Reed at the City Club
The New Yorker called Ishmael Reed “a founding father of American multiculturalism,” and “America’s most fearless satirist.” A colleague at…
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EventsAn Evening With Victoria Chang
Join the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, The Cleveland Foundation and Lake View Cemetery as we celebrate in the cemetery’s Community Mausoleum…
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EventsDonika Kelly & “The Renunciations”
Join us to explore the intersection of self-reflection, creativity, and healing from trauma with author of The Renunciations and 2022 Anisfield-Wolf winner…
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EventsA Reckoning with Shared History: Lynching and Percival Everett’s “The Trees”
Join Black Environmental Leaders (BEL) and 2022 Anisfield-Wolf winner for fiction Percival Everett in a one-of-a-kind community event. Early in…
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EventsBook Discussion: Tiya Miles’ “All That She Carried”
Before Cleveland Book Week officially begins, join Praxis Fiber Arts and the African American Doll and Quilt Guild for a discussion of…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 8: Author Mary Morris
Mary Morris won the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award prize for “The Jazz Palace,” a novel set in her hometown of Chicago…
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News7th Annual Cleveland Book Week Kicks Off September 9
Since 2016, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards have hosted Cleveland Book Week, to celebrate its past and present winners and showcase…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 7: Author Laird Hunt
Laird Hunt is a 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for “Kind One,” a haunting novel that explores a horrible and uncanny intimacy…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 6: Historian Vincent Brown
Vincent Brown is a 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for “Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.” It is a groundbreaking investigation into the roots, combatants, cartography and reverberations…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 5: Author Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey, a 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for her searing and lyrical memoir about her mother, Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough,…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 4: Poet A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan, a 2005 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for his nonfiction about a thwarted spelling bee contestant, joins The…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 3: Poet Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang, the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for poetry, joins The Asterisk* to discuss the weather of grief, clarity…
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EventsGreat Lakes African American Writers Conference: Walter Mosley Keynote
The Great Lakes African American Writers Conference (GLAAWC, pronounced “glossy”) will relocate this year to its new home at the…
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EventsLiterary Cleveland Inkubator Conference
Literary Cleveland will kick off the 2022 Book Week with the Inkubator Writing Conference, with online literary panels running September…
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Events2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony
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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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 2: Novelist James McBride
James McBride, the only Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recipient to win for both fiction and nonfiction titles, joins The Asterisk* to discuss his degree…