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LISTEN: Speeches from the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Clint Smith, recipient of the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction, speaks at the awards ceremony at the Schuster Center.
Juliet Fromholt
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WYSO
Clint Smith, recipient of the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for nonfiction, speaks at the awards ceremony at the Schuster Center.

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize was founded in 2005 - ten years after the Dayton Peace Accords ended the war in Bosnia. The prize honors authors from around the world for fiction, non-fiction and lifetime achievement.

In this special presentation, you’ll hear from the 2022 winning writers in each category:

  • Clint Smith, nonfiction winner for How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America
  • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, fiction winner for The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois
  • Wil Haygood, winner of the Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award

Learn more about the Dayton Literary Peace Prize at https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/

Juliet Fromholt is proud to be music director at 91.3FM WYSO and Novaphonic.FM. Juliet began volunteering at WYSO while working at WWSU, the student station at her alma mater, Wright State University. After joining the station staff in 2009, Juliet developed WYSO’s digital and social media strategy. She moved into the music director role in 2021, and in 2024, oversaw the launch of Novaphonic.FM, a 24/7 music channel curated by the WYSO team, available streaming and on WYSO HD-2.