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

Multigenre
2/24, 3/3 & 3/10

Haunting the Obedient Tongue: Hybridity as Anti-Colonial Praxis - Feb 2025

All genres — We will explore how the combination of text with visual elements help us deconstruct language’s power through anti-colonial lenses.
Business of Writing
3/4

Writing a Successful Nonfiction Book Proposal

This class will provide a toolkit for writing a successful book proposal.
Writing Process
3/5

Let the Writing Make the Rules

In this intensive course, we will deepen our understanding of the voice, the shape, and the themes that our work seeks to articulate.
Poetry
3/6, 3/13, 3/20, 3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17 & 4/24

Poetry Writing & Revision (FULL)

In this class, we will practice both radical and focused revision strategies while reading and discussing the work of published poets, pre- and post-revision.
Business of Writing
3/8 & 3/15

Self-Publishing Made Simple: A Complete Guide to Publishing, Marketing, and Growing Your Author Career

In this 4-hour session, we’ll walk you through the steps of the self-publishing process, from designing a professional book to promoting and funding it
Fiction
3/18

Secondary Characters: Populating Your Story with Figures Who Entice & Intrigue

This craft talk will help us look at some of our favorite secondary characters in speculative fiction and what makes them work so well.
Nonfiction
3/19

Turning Research into Compelling Nonfiction - March 2025

In this class we'll explore how to turn research into compelling nonfiction (for essays or a book project).
Multigenre
3/22

Writing Beyond Our Wounds

Participants will learn ways to use writing and creativity to find their way back to themselves and to persevere through challenging times.
Poetry
3/27, 4/3, 4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8 and 5/15

I Can Hear Her Breathing: Poems that Build New Worlds

Through conscious surrender and creation, we tap into what is longing for our attention to be rebirthed and restored.
Nonfiction
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Nonfiction - Apr 2025

Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
Poetry
4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/22, 4/29 & 5/6

Generative Poetry - Apr 2025

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?
Poetry
5/3, 5/10 & 5/17

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.