Class Level

All Levels

​Unless otherwise noted, most of Literary Cleveland’s classes are designed to be helpful to writers at all levels of experience.

Other Class Types

Upcoming Classes & Workshops

Poetry
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Poetry - Apr 2025 (FULL)

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
Writing Process
4/2, 4/9, 4/16 & 4/23

Developing a Writing Habit - April 2025 (FULL)

This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.
Fiction
4/2, 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/30 & 5/7

Generative Fiction - Apr 2025 (FULL)

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.
Multigenre
4/5

The Art of Multiperspectivity

We’ll specifically analyze what multiple perspectives do for a story (and why we can’t achieve the same effect with only one perspective).
Fiction
4/7

To Live: Giving Voice to the Nonhuman Narrator

In this generative workshop, participants will study various examples of flash that give voice to the often-silent characters in our lives.
Poetry
4/9

Poetry Mad Libs: Borrowing Form to Reinvigorate Writing

In this workshop, we’ll look closely at mentor poems to study the specifics of their structure and then use them as a mad-libs-style frame for our own work.
Poetry
4/9, 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30

Queer Poetics & Trans/Forms: A Poetry Workshop

In this multi-class workshop, we will explore the world of queer and trans poetics and forms, brainstorm, write, play, & invent our own poems, & share.
Business of Writing
4/14 & 4/21

Negotiation for Writers: How to Ask For & Get What You Deserve

This workshop covers strategic tips and best practices to help you ask for and get what you deserve.
Nonfiction
4/22, 5/6 & 5/20

Being on a Broken Planet: Personal Essays & Environmental Repair

The quest is to consider whether writing (and reading) can improve the human relationship with nature.
Fiction
4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27 & 6/3

Elements of Story for Revising Novelists

In this class, you will learn tried-and-true methods of structuring stories so you can adapt them to best suit yours.
Writing Process
4/30

Intro to Developing a Writing Habit - April 2025

This two-hour lecture will provide the foundational concepts that we’ll work with in the four-week Developing a Writing Habit Class.
Fiction
5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29 & 6/5

Writing Climate Fiction - May 2025

Unprecedented weather events, rising temperatures, climate migration: how can we deal narratively with the enormity of these changes in our world?
Reading Series
5/6, 6/3, 7/1 & 8/5

Read Like a Writer: Short Fiction - Session Two - May 2025

Join us for this reader series class where we will take a deep dive into the craft of one short story each month.
Writing Process
5/7, 5/14, 5/21 & 5/28

Developing a Writing Habit - May 2025

This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.
Nonfiction
5/14

Capturing Family Stories

This workshop is generative, so we will write beginnings of pieces about family with brief constructive feedback during the workshop.
Poetry
5/17, 5/24 & 5/31

Poetics of Pleasure

Come steep in the world of the erotic! In this three-part series, we will read and write poetry that centers on pleasure.
Nonfiction
5/28, 6/4, 6/11 & 6/18

Generative Nonfiction - May 2025

Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
Poetry
6/7

Haiku Hike

Haiku writers will pause at varied micro climates to practice mindfulness meditation, sensory awareness and compose haiku.
Multigenre
6/9, 6/16, 6/23

Experimental Writing

We will play with alternative constraints; question the purposes, forms, and audiences of our work; and reinvent the writing process.
Nonfiction
6/10

Transforming Family History

In Transforming Family History, you'll learn about ten issues to consider when you want to gather together this family lore to craft an engaging book.
Multigenre
6/12

The Thrill of the Game: Literary Sportswriting

Whether you love team sports, action sports, or individual physical pursuits, you'll deep dive into memory to bring sports to life.
Fiction
6/17, 6/24, 7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22

Generative Fiction - June 2025

Are you writing a novel? Short stories? Flash fiction? It's all welcome in this six-week generative workshop.
Business of Writing
6/18

Selling Your Nonfiction Book Before Writing It: How to Craft a Winning Proposal

Get the inside view on what an editor looks for, how to sell yourself and your idea, and how to sell a book without writing one (yet!)
Reading Series
6/26, 7/24, 8/28

Just Calm Down: Female Anger in Contemporary Literature

In this readers series, we’ll explore a trend in contemporary literature that legitimizes female anger, in particular anger around motherhood.
Poetry
7/2, 7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30 & 8/6

Generative Poetry - July 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new poetry or make progress on your project.
Nonfiction
7/16

How to Write About the Unspeakable

This workshop will give several concrete ways to write about that which we dare not speak—whether due to trauma or privacy concerns—while remaining safe.
Business of Writing
7/22, 7/29 & 8/5

Intro to Copywriting

This introductory course will equip you with the essential skills to craft compelling, engaging, and persuasive content across various platforms.
Writing Process
7/30

Intro to Developing a Writing Habit - July 2025

This two-hour lecture will provide the foundational concepts that we’ll work with in the four-week Developing a Writing Habit Class.
Fiction
8/4

Getting Started with Historical Fiction - August 2025

Bring the past to life with a master class on the craft of historical fiction
Writing Process
8/6, 8/13, 8/20 & 8/27

Developing a Writing Habit - August 2025

This class will help you develop writing habits that will boost your confidence, help you find your “voice,” and keep your writing process in motion.
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.
Fiction
8/21

Improv for Writers: Using Spontaneous Story

In this workshop, participants will learn how to harness the principles of improvisation to unlock their creativity.