Join us in person at the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland for a free writing group intended for queer and trans writers.
From July to December 2025, we will be offering a free monthly multi-genre writing group at the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland (6705 Detroit Ave, Cleveland OH 44102). Whether you are in the middle of a project or starting something new, Queer Writes: Queer & Trans Free Writing Group is designed to help you draft new work, refine your craft, and build community with other writers. Join us every month or stop by for a single session when you can.
The group will meet every Third Tuesday of the month in the from 6:00-7:30pm:
July 15
August 19
September 16
October 21
November 18
December 16
NOTE: This group is intended for queer and trans writers to work on craft, generate writing, and build community in a space where they and their work are centered. All are welcome in the group, but we ask anyone attending the meetings that is not LGBTQIA+ to be mindful of the space you take up in the group and the energy you bring into the space, which is meant to amplify the voices of queer and trans individuals that have been historically silenced. Anyone being disrespectful or disruptive may be asked to leave.
Presented in partnership with LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland.
Join us in person at the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland for a free writing group intended for queer and trans writers.
From July to December 2025, we will be offering a free monthly multi-genre writing group at the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland (6705 Detroit Ave, Cleveland OH 44102). Whether you are in the middle of a project or starting something new, Queer Writes: Queer & Trans Free Writing Group is designed to help you draft new work, refine your craft, and build community with other writers. Join us every month or stop by for a single session when you can.
The group will meet every Third Tuesday of the month in the from 6:00-7:30pm:
July 15
August 19
September 16
October 21
November 18
December 16
NOTE: This group is intended for queer and trans writers to work on craft, generate writing, and build community in a space where they and their work are centered. All are welcome in the group, but we ask anyone attending the meetings that is not LGBTQIA+ to be mindful of the space you take up in the group and the energy you bring into the space, which is meant to amplify the voices of queer and trans individuals that have been historically silenced. Anyone being disrespectful or disruptive may be asked to leave.
Presented in partnership with LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland.
Naazneen Diwan is an educator, writer, community organizer and curriculum designer. With a PhD in Gender Studies from UCLA, she has taught courses in Arabic, Interracial Solidarity, Gender and Knowledge, Disability Studies and Gender and Race in the U.S. at Ohio State University, UCLA and CSULA for over 12 years.
Willow (she/her, they/them) is a Black transfemme poet, narrativist, and creative hailing from the Black Midwest via unceded Mississauga, Kaskaskia, and Erie territory (Cleveland, OH). Her work explores post-apocalyptic intimacies, grief, and networks of kinship and belonging.
