Welcome to Literary Cleveland
Developing writers, amplifying voices, and transforming our community through storytelling.
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Writing Groups
2/6, 2/20, 3/6, 3/20, 4/3, 4/17, 5/1 & 5/15
Click Submit: Submitters Workshop & Accountability Group - Spring 2025
Get serious, connected, and perhaps even published with the guidance, structure, and help of this workshop and accountability group.
Fiction
2/11
Prosaics: Writing More Beautifully
We'll look at some of the quantifiable qualities of beautiful prose and work on some exercises to generate elegant touches to dialog or description.
Upcoming Events
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February 14, 2025
One Mic Open
Free open mics each month hosted by Eric Odum!
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February 18, 2025
Toni Morrison Community Reading
6:30-8:00 PM
Join the local literary community to celebrate the life and writing of Toni Morrison.
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February 26, 2025
Plum City Reading
Featuring Oberlin professors Chanda Feldman and Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers with Cleveland's own Mary Grimm
Featured Announcments
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Part Time Grant Writer
Now Hiring
Literary Cleveland is accepting applications for a part-time Grant Writer. This position is responsible for drafting, revising, submitting, tracking, and organizing grant-related materials, including proposals and reports. Applicants must reside in Northeast Ohio. Applications will be reviewed until March 10. Apply now!
Send us your writing!
Call for Submissions
We are seeking poems, stories, and essays about "appetite" for our Cleveland Humanities Festival Staged Reading on April 5. Limited to writers from Northeast Ohio. Submit by Feb. 24, 2024!
Essential Worker Anthology
Voices from the Edge
In 2021-2022, we collected the stories and poems of essential workers in Northeast Ohio into an anthology that details the lived experience of the pandemic from the point of view of those who sacrificed to keep others safe. Read these powerful and movies stories now.
Gordon Square Review
Literary Cleveland's biannual online literary journal
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