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Developing writers, amplifying voices, and transforming our community through storytelling.
Upcoming Classes
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Poetry
8/7
Wild Transmissions: Queer Poetics and Craft
This class will explore queerness as poetics, helping you, as writers of poems, to engage in the ancient, teeming, wide-eyed conversation that is poetry.
Business of Writing
8/7
I’m Ready to Submit My Writing to Magazines and Journals—But How? (August 2025)
In this workshop, you’ll learn where to find publications that are looking for work, proper manuscript format, and submission etiquette.
Poetry
8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/16, 9/23
Intro to Poetry - August 2025
Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
Upcoming Events
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Inkubator Writing Conference
September 5-14
Literary Cleveland's Inkubator is one of the largest free writing conferences in the country.
August 4, 2025
Breakthrough Writing Residency
Apply for Literary Cleveland's free year-long writing residency and work one-on-one with a mentor to complete a book-length project.
August 8, 2025
One Mic Open
Share your work at our free open mics each month hosted by Eric Odum!
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Volunteer at Inkubator
Want to lend a hand at Literary Cleveland's Inkubator Writing Conference September 12-13 at the downtown Cleveland Public Library? Complete an interest form and we will send you more information. It's a great way to meet new people and to give back to the writing community!
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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