With great excitement, the Stowe Center announces Percival Everett as our 2025 Stowe Prize for Literary Activism winner, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book James: A Novel (Doubleday, 2024), which offers a more truthful representation of an enslaved person, one free of many of the stereotypes cast upon Black people throughout the American literary canon.

Event Schedule

5:00-6:00pm | Sponsor Reception with Professor Percival Everett | The Mark Twain House & Museum

5:30-6:30pm | Free Social Justice Fair | Fellowship Hall, Immanuel Congregational Church

6:30-8:00pm | Public Program | The Sanctuary, Immanuel Congregational Church