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Literary Cleveland classes and workshops let you explore other voices and discover your own. We have workshops and craft talks for writers and readers of every genre, experience level, and background. View our upcoming classes below; filter by category, level, or class type; and sign up for our newsletter to be the first to learn about new offerings.

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

Generative Nonfiction - Apr 2025 (FULL)

Each week, we’ll examine creative nonfiction forms and draft our own pieces.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Business of Writing
4/15

Shameless Self Promotion - April 2025

Learn how to market your work with confidence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Nonfiction
5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24

Finding Your Memoir - May 2025

Craft-focused course with generative writing both in and out of class, and informal feedback from the instructor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Poetry
5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19 & 6/26

Intro to Poetry - May 2025

Generate new poems in this six-week class designed to kick your writing into gear.
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Fiction
5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19, 6/26

Intro to Fiction - May 2025

Whether you are brand new to fiction writing, need inspiration, or looking to polish up on fiction fundamentals, you are welcome to Intro to Fiction.
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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.
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Fiction
6/2, 6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30, 7/7

Writing Contemporary Short Stories - June 2025

A six-week intermediate workshop split between reading published work and workshopping our own
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Fiction
6/5, 6/12, 6/19, 6/26

Start Writing Right Now - June 2025

Come experiment in this low-stress, generative class!
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Poetry
6/7

Haiku Hike

Haiku writers will pause at varied micro climates to practice mindfulness meditation, sensory awareness and compose haiku.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!)
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Multigenre
6/21

Ekphrastic Streets: A Picture Says 100 Words

Put your creativity in motion and let your pen lead the way!
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Fiction
6/28, 7/3, 7/10

Worldbuilders' Support Group

This three-week class will develop your skills in building immersive fictional worlds.
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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.
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Poetry
7/1, 7/8, 7/15, 7/22, 7/29 & 8/5

Every Word Must Conjure

Every Word Must Conjure is a multi-week generative writing workshop that dives into the differences between denotation and connotation in poetry.
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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.
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Fiction
7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13, 8/20 & 8/27

Fiction Revision - Summer 2025

In this workshop, learn about the necessary art of revision for fiction projects.
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Poetry
7/10, 7/17, 7/24, 7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21 & 8/28

You Aren’t Done Yet: On Revision (Poetry Revision - Summer 2025)

In this class, we will discuss the process of revision and how to go about re-visioning our poems.
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Fiction
7/12, 7/19 & 7/26

Reading & Writing BIPOC Flash Fiction

This session aims to answer: Who are we writing for? What have we been taught that we can dismantle and make our own?
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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.
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Multigenre
7/21, 7/28, 8/4 & 8/11

Disability, Queerness & Possibility: A Multi-Genre Workshop

In this multi-class workshop, we will study essays and poems from disabled and neurodivergent writers and write and workshop our own.
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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.
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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.
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Nonfiction
7/31, 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4

Intro to Nonfiction

Everyone has a story to tell. In this 6-week class, we will generate new material as well as learn about the fundamentals of creative nonfiction.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nonfiction
8/13, 8/20, 8/27, 9/3, 9/17 & 9/24

Coming Back to Your Senses: Using Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, and Smell to Begin and Enhance Your Memoir

This workshop will also discuss ways in which to write about difficult events in our lives using literary craft elements to help tell our stories.
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Fiction
8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/18 & 9/25

Intro to Fiction - August 2025

Whether you are brand new to fiction writing, need inspiration, or looking to polish up on fiction fundamentals, you are welcome to Intro to Fiction.
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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.
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