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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…
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In “Shine Bright,” Music Critic Danyel Smith Gets On Stage And Shimmers
In “Shine Bright,” music critic Danyel Smith makes it plain she wants “credit to be given where credit is due.” Subtitled “A Very…
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NewsJoseph Earl Thomas Named New Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Joseph Earl Thomas expects to earn his doctorate in English from the University of Pennsylvania in 2024, but that road…
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PodcastsSeason 2, Episode 1: Poet Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith, a 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winner for poetry, joins The Asterisk* to discuss what it means to…
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2022 Press Release: Winners Announced
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2022-1936 Winners
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BookThe Trees
Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California and erstwhile cowboy, was at work on…
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BookAll That She Carried
Tiya Miles grew up in Cincinnati listening to family stories, a practice that whetted her appetite for history, sparked her…
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BookOf Fear and Strangers
In the introduction to “Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia,” George Makari describes a hinge moment in his…
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AuthorIshmael Reed
Ishmael Scott Reed, poet, novelist, playwright, lyricist, cartoonist, musician and founder of small presses and publications, has remade literature. He…
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BookThe Renunciations
Donika Kelly spent her first 13 years in Los Angeles, born into a time and place where tenderness, as she…