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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…

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…

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,…