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Join the City Club as we hear from Sarah Aziza, the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner in Memoir, for a conversation on generational displacement, ancestral memories, and finding a way forward in ‘the land of the living.’

Join us for a weekend of opening and challenging minds as we honor this year's Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners. Attend our signature ceremony on September 18 as this year’s winners join the esteemed canon of America’s only juried book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity. And on September 19, join us in Ohio City for a variety of author events

Bench Ansfield, 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards nonfiction winner for their book Born in Flames, joins civil rights activist and Campaign Zero Executive Director DeRay Mckesson and Director of the Tenant Union Federation, Tara Raghuveer for a fireside chat on arson, insurance fraud, and tenant organizing in the Bronx and beyond.

Sarah Aziza, winner of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards memoir prize for The Hollow Half, will be joined by members of Cleveland Public Theatre’s Community Ensemble Masrah Cleveland Al-Arabi and three-time Arab American Book Award winner Phil Metres for a performance and conversation on Arabic, translation, and the politics of language.

A conversation on writing Black romance, faith, and the American South will feature debut fiction writer Carrie R. Moore, winner of the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards fiction prize for Make Your Way Home in dialogue with writer and cultural worker Stevona Elem-Rogers.

Debut poet Gbenga Adesina reads a selection of pieces from his prize-winning collection Death Does Not End at the Sea. Adesina is joined by poet, performer, and educator Ajanaé Dawkins for a conversation rooted in grief, migration, borders, faith and the power of the sea.