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Announcing the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Winners!
Join us in celebrating these five brilliant authors on their Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards wins!
Learn more about this year's winners here: anisfield-wolf.org/2026/04/announ…
Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
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Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is the only American book prize focusing on works that address racism and diversity. Jury chair: @NTrethewey
- This month's Anisfield-Wolf Book Club selection, "Death Does Not End at the Sea" is the 2026 AWBA winner in Poetry. As you continue to read the work, how does your understanding of grief change? For discussion questions to guide your reading, visit: anisfield-wolf.org/awba-book-club/
- This month's Anisfield-Wolf Book Club selection is 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Poetry winner, Death Does Not End at the Sea" by Gbenga Adesina. Gbenga Adesina’s debut book of poems is a defiant and wise exploration of exile, voyages, and odysseys. anisfield-wolf.org/awba-book-club/
- Did you enjoy Bench Ansfield's Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winning "Born in Flames?" Explore the Anisfield-Wolf Book Club to see six recommended books to read next! anisfield-wolf.org/awba-book-club/
- . @benchansfield shares that one of their favorite works in the AWBA canon is Gwendolyn Brooks', "In the Mecca." The collection includes poems to Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, and the Blackstone Rangers, a politicized Chicago street gang part of the Black Power Movement.
