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Introducing Our Class of 2023
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2023 recipients of the only…
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Poet Adrian Matejka to Announce 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Award Winners
Join us Monday, April 3 as award-winning poet Adrian Matejka announces the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners. Matejka won…
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An Evening with Adrian Matejka + 2023 Winners Announcement
Join us as award-winning poet Adrian Matejka announces the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners. Matejka won an Anisfield-Wolf Book…
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7 Titles From AW-Winning Authors You’ll Want On Your TBR List
Looking for some new titles to pick up? Check out some recent releases from Anisfield-Wolf award winners – you already…
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Watch the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Awards Documentary
For the third year, our literary celebrations continue with a one-hour awards documentary featuring our 2022 winners: Percival Everett (fiction), Donika Kelly (poetry), George Makari (nonfiction), Tiya…
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Cleveland Book Week
Putting Cleveland’s Literary Scene on the Map Since 2016, Cleveland Book Week has celebrated literary excellence in Northeast Ohio, anchored…
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7th 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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Anisfield-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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Donika 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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Ishmael 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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Book 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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A 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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Season 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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7th 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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Season 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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Season 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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Season 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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Season 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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Season 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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2022 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…