Class Level

All Levels

​Unless otherwise noted, most of Literary Cleveland’s classes are designed to be helpful to writers at all levels of experience.

Other Class Types

Upcoming Classes & Workshops

Reader Series
1/6, 2/3, 3/3 & 4/7

Read Like a Writer 2026 - Session One

The best way to improve as a writer is to write. The second best way is to read and analyze classic literature.
Writing Process
1/6

Intro to Developing a Writing Habit - January 2026

We’ll discuss strategies for getting you into your seat, how to combine playfulness with discipline, and discuss the three components necessary for a writing ca
Fiction
1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4 & 2/11

Creating New Fiction - January 2026

It's all welcome in this six-week generative workshop designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project.
Reader Series
1/13, 1/27 & 2/10

Reading Contemporary Poetry - January 2026

We hope to encourage reading the work of contemporary poets and foster discussion about ways to approach reading a book of poems by one author.
Poetry
1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11, 2/18 & 2/25

Snakes & Spirals: Using Repetition in Poetry

In this generative workshop, we will study and write poems that play with repetition.
Writing Groups
1/29, 2/5, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12 & 3/19

Click Submit: Submitters Workshop & Accountability Group - Spring 2026

Get serious, connected, and perhaps even published with the guidance, structure, and help of this workshop and accountability group.
Nonfiction
2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12 & 3/19

Creating New Nonfiction - February 2026

There are so many ways to tell your story, and it’s all welcome in this six-week class.
3/10

Genre and Worldbuilding in Fiction

We will discuss emerging and established iconography of various genres, and ways writers can work within and beyond these existing languages to establish worlds
Fiction
3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15

Creating New Fiction - March 2026

Are you writing a novel? Short stories? Flash fiction? It's all welcome in this six-week generative workshop designed to help you create new work.
Fiction
3/25

Making the Grade: Writing Novels for Young Readers

Entering the world of literature as a kid is a wondrous experience, but writing books for kids can be just as rewarding
Writing Process
4/1

Intro to Developing a Writing Habit - April 2026

This two-hour lecture will provide the foundational concepts that we’ll work with in the four-week Developing a Writing Habit Class.
Multigenre
4/9, 4/16, 4/23 & 4/30

Death is the Style

“Kill your darlings” is the anthem of the bored, exhausted writer.
Business of Writing
4/21

Ready, Set, Submit! Getting Your Work Published

This course is designed to help writers navigate the process of getting their short-form work (short stories, creative nonfiction, and poetry) published.