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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.
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.
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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Inkubator Call for Proposals
Want to be an Inkubator presenter? Interested in running a community project during the Inkubator? Looking for a paid fellowship? See our open calls for Inkubator presenters, community projects, and Inkubator fellows.
Essential Worker Anthology
Voices from the Edge
In 2021-2022, we collected the stories and poems of essential workers in Northeast Ohio into an anthology that details the lived experience of the pandemic from the point of view of those who sacrificed to keep others safe. Read these powerful and movies stories now.
Gordon Square Review
Literary Cleveland's biannual online literary journal
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