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Developing writers, amplifying voices, and transforming our community through storytelling.
Upcoming Classes
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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.
Fiction

3/3, 3/10, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14, 4/21 & 4/28
Fiction Revision - Spring 2025
In this workshop, learn about the necessary art of revision for fiction projects.
Business of Writing

3/3, 3/10, 3/17 & 3/24
Crafting the Query Letter You Need
In this fast-paced four-week workshop, you'll create a query letter with an in-depth understanding of how to write your book's pitch.
Upcoming Events
Don't miss out on all the fun!

February 14, 2025
One Mic Open
Free open mics each month hosted by Eric Odum!
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February 18, 2025
Toni Morrison Community Reading
6:30-8:00 PM
Join the local literary community to celebrate the life and writing of Toni Morrison.
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February 26, 2025
Plum City Reading
Featuring Oberlin professors Chanda Feldman and Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers with Cleveland's own Mary Grimm
Featured Announcments
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Part Time Grant Writer
Now Hiring
Literary Cleveland is accepting applications for a part-time Grant Writer. This position is responsible for drafting, revising, submitting, tracking, and organizing grant-related materials, including proposals and reports. Applicants must reside in Northeast Ohio. Applications will be reviewed until March 10. Apply now!

Send us your writing!
Call for Submissions
We are seeking poems, stories, and essays about "appetite" for our Cleveland Humanities Festival Staged Reading on April 5. Limited to writers from Northeast Ohio. Submit by Feb. 24, 2024!

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
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