Just Buffalo began in 1975 when founder Debora Ott hosted a reading featuring Diane di Prima at the Allentown Community Center.
The organization proceeded to host writing workshops for writers of all ages and published a literary magazine.
BABEL is an international literary lecture series that brings notable authors to Buffalo to speak four times per year.
Past authors have included Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Derek Walcott and V.S.
Naipaul, as well as global literary icons Isabel Allende, Amos Oz, Salman Rushdie, A.S. Byatt, Chinua Achebe and many others.