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Developing writers, amplifying voices, and transforming our community through storytelling.
Upcoming Classes
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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.
Poetry
2/11, 2/18, 2/25, 3/4, 3/11 & 3/18
Generative Poetry - Feb 2025
This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
Poetry
2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12 & 3/19
Elemental: Contemporary Inspiration From the Stage and Page
This six-week generative writing course will explore contemporary poets, primarily in the Slam poetry community.
Upcoming Events
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Veterans' Writing Workshops
Join us for more free veterans' writing workshops in 2025: Jan 27, Feb 27, Mar 24, and Apr 28
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.
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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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
Learn more, get involved, and submit your writing