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 variety of events taking place Sept. 9-16 featuring past and present Anisfield-Wolf Book...
View ArticleWatch 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),...
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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 know the writing is deft and the topics strong. Here are just a few gems we...
View ArticlePoet 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 an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2014 for The Big Smoke, a...
View Article“Rise and Rebuild” Documentary Puts Spotlight On Fight for Black Wealth
Filmmakers Leslia Asako Gladsjo and Sam Pollard wanted to make a documentary about the Tulsa Massacre, the two days in 1921 when a white mob burned down 35 prosperous square blocks of Black...
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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 national juried prize for literature that confronts racism and...
View ArticleREVIEW: Colson Whitehead’s Pen Sizzles With “Crook Manifesto”
by Charles Ellenbogen Ray Carney has a problem any parent will recognize. The protagonist of “Crook Manifesto” – the second in Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy — has a daughter, May, craving tickets...
View ArticleCleveland Book Week 2023: From Cover to Cover
The eighth annual Cleveland Book Week brought five literary powerhouses — poet Saeed Jones, historian Matthew F. Delmont, novelists Geraldine Brooks and Lan Samantha Chang and lifetime achievement...
View ArticleNew Director, Jurors Announced for Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Nicholas Roman Lewis has joined the Cleveland Foundation as the Director of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Lewis, who has served as a literary agent and entertainment attorney, as well as an alumni...
View ArticleIntroducing the Class of 2024
The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented by the Cleveland Foundation, today announced the winners of the 89th annual awards. The 2024 recipients of the only national juried prize for literature that...
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