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Nonfiction
4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9, 5/16 & 5/23

Your Story Matters: The Building Blocks of the Personal Essay

In this class, we will be examining the building blocks of personal essay writing.
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Fiction
4/6

The Ekphrastic Hour: Art as a Feedback Loop for Fiction

We’ll look at examples of ekphrastic writing and ekphrastic experiments and get inspired to go beyond description to get at something more.
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Upcoming Events

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Cleveland Poetry Festival

April 12-14, 2024

Meet us at the Intersection of poetry and art!

The Gift of Darkness

April 6, 2024

A free staged reading in on the topic of awe as it relates to the solar eclipse as part of the Cleveland Humanities Festival

Lit Summer Camps

June-August 2024

Join Lit Cleveland this summer for support, inspiration, productivity, and community!
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Gordon Square Review

Literary Cleveland's biannual online literary journal

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