Welcome to Literary Cleveland
Developing writers, amplifying voices, and transforming our community through storytelling.
Upcoming Classes
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Poetry
6/14
Haiku Hike
Haiku writers will pause at varied micro climates to practice mindfulness meditation, sensory awareness and compose haiku.
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.
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!)
Upcoming Events
Don't miss out on all the fun!
June 13, 2025
One Mic Open
Share your work at our free open mics each month hosted by Eric Odum!
June 18, 2025
Plum City Reading - June 2025
Featuring Megan Giddings, Ray McNiece & Santiago Jose Sanchez
Featured Announcments
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Story Slam Fundraiser
A Lit Summer Night
Help support our literary community! We're holding our Story Slam Fundraiser on June 5, 2025 with Hanif Abdurraqib to help raise $30,000 to support our free programs, including the Inkubator Writing Conference. This year we are facing a gap of $25,000 due to federal funding cuts to the NEA and NEH. Please, stand with us and spoort by donating or bidding on the auction!
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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