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

Reader Series
1/7, 2/4, 3/4 & 4/1

Read Like a Writer: Short Fiction - Session One - Jan 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
1/8, 1/15, 1/22 & 1/29

Developing a Writing Habit - January 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.
Reader Series
1/21, 2/4 & 2/18

Reading Contemporary Poetry - January 2025

Join Marion and Barbara to discuss these celebrated books by three masters of modern poetry.
Business of Writing
1/25

I’m Ready to Submit My Writing to Magazines and Journals—But How?

In this workshop, you’ll learn where to find publications that are looking for work, proper manuscript format, and submission etiquette.
Multigenre
2/1

Winter Writing Retreat 2025

Knock out a new poem or two, draft a chapter of a novel or memoir, or revise that essay or story you have been working on.
Fiction
2/3, 2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/3 & 3/10

Generative Fiction - Feb 2025

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.
Memoir
2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 2/25 & 3/4

Four Building Blocks of Memoir - Februrary 2025

If you want to write your memoir but have struggled to get started or otherwise feel stuck, then “Four Building Blocks of Memoir” may be the solution.
Writing Process
2/5, 2/12, 2/19 & 2/26

Developing a Writing Habit - Feb 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.
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.
Fiction
2/13

Getting Started with Historical Fiction - Feb 2025

Bring the past to life with a master class on the craft of historical fiction
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

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

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

This six-week generative workshop is designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.
Poetry
4/3

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.
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, 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.