Developing writers, amplifying voices, and transforming our community through storytelling.

Attacks on the literary arts at both the federal and state level are growing. Public funding for libraries and education has already been gutted. Now, publishers, journals, and arts organizations like ours are facing existential threats. Spread the word. Get involved. If each of us doing a little individually together we can do a lot.

Help support our literary community! We're holding our Story Slam Fundraiser on June 5, 2025 with Hanif Abdurraqib to help raise $30,000 to support our free programs, including the Inkubator Writing Conference. This year we are facing a gap of $25,000 due to federal funding cuts to the NEA and NEH. Please, stand with us and spoort by donating or buying a ticket!

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.