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2025 Press Release – Winners Announced
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BookThe United States Governed By Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of Slavery
A Rediscovered Narrative, with a Full Biography For one hundred and sixty-nine years, a first-person slave narrative written by John…
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BookColored Television
A brilliant dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex. Jane has high hopes her life…
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BookFeeding Ghosts
In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese history across three generations of women in…
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AuthorYusef Komunyakaa
The winner of this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award goes to one of the most prolific poets of the 21st century,…
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News2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners Announced, Celebrating 90 Years of Literary Excellence
CLEVELAND — Four groundbreaking works have been named winners of the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, the nation’s only endowed juried…
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Events2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Ceremony
Join us to celebrate the winners of the 90th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa will also…
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EventsInkubator Writing Conference
Literary Cleveland’s Inkubator Writing Conference is the largest free writing conference in the country. Three days of virtual events September…
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BookYard Show
Black history, cultural expression, and the natural world fuse in Janice N. Harrington’s Yard Show to investigate how Black Americans…
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Events
Spring Discussion Series – Brothers & Keepers
The Ohio Center for the Book is pleased to collaborate with Ursuline College, Case Western Reserve University, and Anisfield-Wolf Book…
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Spring Discussion Series – Paula
The Ohio Center for the Book is pleased to collaborate with Ursuline College, Case Western Reserve University, and Anisfield-Wolf Book…
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Spring Discussion Series – Memorial Drive
The Ohio Center for the Book is pleased to collaborate with Ursuline College, Case Western Reserve University, and Anisfield-Wolf Book…
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2025 Press Release – Finalists Announced
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NewsCleveland Foundation Celebrates 90 Years of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards with 2025 Finalists
CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Foundation announced 10 finalists for the 2025 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (AWBA), marking 90 years of honoring…
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Events
CANCELLED: 2025 Winners Announcement Event with Kaveh Akbar & Hanif Abdurraqib
EVENT UPDATE: We regret to inform you that, due to unforeseen circumstances, the event with Kaveh Akbar and Hanif Abdurraqib on Thursday,…
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JurorDeesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021…
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2024 Press Release – Winners Announced
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Staff MemberXan Forest Phillips
Xan Forest Phillips, a poet hailing from rural Ohio, is the acclaimed author of Hull (Nightboat Books, 2019) and a recipient of…
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Staff MemberJamie Hickner, Ph.D
Jamie Hickner has a Ph.D in American Studies and teaches in the English Department at Case Western Reserve University as…
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JurorCharles King
Charles King is the author of the New York Times-bestselling Gods of the Upper Air, which received the Francis Parkman Prize and the…