Wed 9/14-Sun 9/18
Cleveland Book Week, now in its 7th year, revolves around the 87-year-old Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which honor literature that deals with diversity and racism. It returns to all in-person events this year for the first time since 2019, most of them free and open to the public.
The main event is the annual awards ceremony at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in University Circle on Thursday September 15 @ 6pm, hosted by AWBA jury chair Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr, which will honor this year’s winners: Percival Everett for fiction, Donika Kelly for poetry, George Makari and Tiya Miles for nonfiction and Ishmael Reed, lifetime achievement. Everett, Kelly, Makari and Reed, as well as 2021 poetry winner Victoria Chang,will be oing programs at different locations around town on Wednesday September 14 and Friday September 16.
And on September 17-18, the Great Lakes African American Writers Conference will cap the week at the main branch of the Cleveland Public Library with 1998 Anisfield-Wolf fiction winner Walter Mosley delivering the keynote. Go here to register.
Go here for more information and to register for all AWBA events.