Author: Ohio Center for the Book

On September 6, 2025, the Ohio Center for the Book will once again be participating in National Book Festival at the affiliate Centers for the Book’s Roadmap to Reading area in Hall D of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Visit our table for information about Ohio’s literary heritage, our Great Reads …

Hey kids! Do you think you’re funny? Does everyone at school laugh at your jokes? This is your chance to turn your humor into a real stand-up comedy act. In partnership with the Cleveland Comedy Festival, we’ll be hosting their Class Clown Workshop this fall. This four-week workshop is for teens ages 12-18 and will …

In keeping with our charge to promote comics as an important and unique medium of expression, we are very excited to be a part of Cleveland Public Library’s A Superhero Homecoming on Saturday, July 12. Attendees will be able to hear from and meet some of the leading creators in the medium, including a rare …

While we, of course, encourage everyone to read Rubini’s engaging biography of Virginia Hamilton chosen as this year’s Great Reads youth selection, we felt it would be helpful to post some readily available links to additional information on Virginia Hamilton’s life and works here online. Article The pathbreaking Virginia Hamilton and her “liberation literature” – …

Using our 2025 adult Great Reads from Great Places selection as a jumping off point, this article provides a brief introduction to exploring Ohio’s National Park and our state’s rich and varied poetic landscape. Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park: The Literal Landscape Cuyahoga Valley National Park encompasses over 32,000 acres of fields, forest, lakes, rivers, …

Every year since 2002, a list of books representing the literary heritage of each of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa has been distributed by the Library of Congress’s Center for the Book during the National Book Festival. Since 2022, …

Do you have dreams of being a stand-up comedian? Have you ever wondered how professional comedians and comedy writers create their material? Have you been told you are funny and want to learn how to take your humor on stage? Are you curious about what it’s like working in the comedy industry? In collaboration with …

Join us in celebrating Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) this year! Started in 2002, FCBD is coordinated by Diamond Comics Distributors, the comic book industry’s single largest distributor in North America. Titles are selected from publishers with the goal of showcasing the wide range of options that comics have to offer as well as of attracting …

April is National Poetry Month, inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Ohio’s poetic lineage stretches back nearly to the founding of the state. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – poet, author, lecturer, and abolitionist – was the first female teacher at Union Seminary (a school for free African Americans) in Wilberforce, Ohio. Her …

Saturday, April 19, at 1:30 pm – Cleveland Public Library’s Main Library Ohio has a number of connections* to the horror genre, so on Saturday, April 19, at 1:30 pm, join us for a screening of the groundbreaking 1922 cinema masterpiece Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror). We’re celebrating the film …