Devote a day to your writing at our Spring Writing Retreat, Saturday, May 11 from 11am-5pm at the Cleveland State University Mather Mansion.
We'll have food and drink, chairs and tables, community for encouragement and accountability, and writing prompts in each genre to help you make progress on your project or to get started on something new.
After a brief welcome, you will head to the genre room of your choice to get some brief writing prompts and inspiration from your genre leader: Conor Bracken in poetry, Negesti Kaudo in nonfiction, and Annmarie Kelly in fiction. Then we will have 45 minutes of silent writing time for you to generate new work with built in breaks between writing sprints will allow you to stretch, refuel, and chat with other writers before getting back to work.
Knock out a new poem or two, draft a chapter of a novel or memoir, revise that essay or story you have been working on, and earn a reward for achieving your writing goal for the day.
11:00-11:30 Check In
11:30-12:00 Welcome/orientation
12:00-12:15 Breakout 1 with writing prompts in each genre
12:15-1:00 Writing Sprint 1
1:00-1:30 Break
1:30-1:45 Breakout 2 with writing prompts in each genre
1:45-2:30 Writing Sprint 2
2:30-3:00 Break
3:00-3:15 Breakout 3 with writing prompts in each genre
3:15-4:00 Writing Sprint 3
4:00-5:00 Optional sharing
Prerequisites: None
Genres: All fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more
Level: All levels
Format: Generative time with optional prompts, breaks, snacks, and sharing
Location: This class takes place at Cleveland State University Mather Mansion (2605 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115).
Size: Limited to 100 participants (including scholarships)
Suggested Sequence: Follow this class with another generative writing workshop or a feedback course.
Scholarships: Scholarship spots are available for this program for writers in Northeast Ohio. Email info@litcleveland.org.
Cancellations & Refunds: Cancel at least 48 hours in advance of the first class meeting to receive a full refund. Email info@litcleveland.org.
Devote a day to your writing at our Spring Writing Retreat, Saturday, May 11 from 11am-5pm at the Cleveland State University Mather Mansion.
We'll have food and drink, chairs and tables, community for encouragement and accountability, and writing prompts in each genre to help you make progress on your project or to get started on something new.
After a brief welcome, you will head to the genre room of your choice to get some brief writing prompts and inspiration from your genre leader: Conor Bracken in poetry, Negesti Kaudo in nonfiction, and Annmarie Kelly in fiction. Then we will have 45 minutes of silent writing time for you to generate new work with built in breaks between writing sprints will allow you to stretch, refuel, and chat with other writers before getting back to work.
Knock out a new poem or two, draft a chapter of a novel or memoir, revise that essay or story you have been working on, and earn a reward for achieving your writing goal for the day.
11:00-11:30 Check In
11:30-12:00 Welcome/orientation
12:00-12:15 Breakout 1 with writing prompts in each genre
12:15-1:00 Writing Sprint 1
1:00-1:30 Break
1:30-1:45 Breakout 2 with writing prompts in each genre
1:45-2:30 Writing Sprint 2
2:30-3:00 Break
3:00-3:15 Breakout 3 with writing prompts in each genre
3:15-4:00 Writing Sprint 3
4:00-5:00 Optional sharing
Prerequisites: None
Genres: All fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more
Level: All levels
Format: Generative time with optional prompts, breaks, snacks, and sharing
Location: This class takes place at Cleveland State University Mather Mansion (2605 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44115).
Size: Limited to 100 participants (including scholarships)
Suggested Sequence: Follow this class with another generative writing workshop or a feedback course.
Scholarships: Scholarship spots are available for this program for writers in Northeast Ohio. Email info@litcleveland.org.
Cancellations & Refunds: Cancel at least 48 hours in advance of the first class meeting to receive a full refund. Email info@litcleveland.org.
Conor Bracken is a poet and translator. His chapbook, Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour, was selected by DIane Seuss as winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Contest. His work has earned fellowships from Bread Loaf, the Community of Writers, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and has appeared in places like BOMB, jubilat, and The New Yorker, among others. His first full-length collection of poems, The Enemy of My Enemy is Me, is out now.
Negesti Kaudo is a Midwestern essayist who holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia College Chicago. She is the author of Ripe: Essays and the youngest winner of the Ohioana Library Association's Walter Rumsey Marvin grant (2015) for unpublished writers under 30.
Annmarie Kelly is the author of Here Be Dragons, a memoir about the wonderful misery of raising kids with someone you love. She is also the host of Wild Precious Life, a literary podcast about making the most of the time we have. Her writing has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, in the New York Observer, Today Parenting, Black Fork, Anodyne, and Gordon Square Review. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
