Building on the success of last year's Novelist Summer Camp, we are hosting three special summer programs for novelists, poets, and nonfiction writers looking for support, inspiration, productivity, and community.
For four weeks, attend a mix of fun, in-person activities and virtual sessions, all designed with novelists in mind.
On Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30pm, join the group virtually via Zoom. Each Wednesday session will feature mini craft lessons, writing time, and discussion with fellow writers. On Saturdays, attend excursions to find inspiration in works of art, uncover history in a cemetery, embark on a late-night bookstore scavenger hunt, and more, all while connecting with other writers and picking up craft and publishing tips. In-person and online events are supplemented by an online Slack group where writers can interact and share work (optional).
Novelists working in all genres and at all levels are welcome; this program aims to provide support and a productivity boost rather than critiques or traditional workshops, though writers will have the chance to connect in genre-based groups.
Saturday trips include visits to Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland Museum of Art, and a Loganberry Books after hours flashlight scavenger hunt!
REGISTER HERE!
Immerse yourself in the northeast Ohio poetry community and kickstart your poetic creativity with the Literary Cleveland Poetry Summer Camp. A five-week mix of in-person interactive field trips and online group workshop meetings, Poetry Summer Camp is designed to create solidarity, camaraderie, and connection among Northeastern Ohio poets of all experience levels.
Celebrated Cleveland poets Danny Caine and Michelle R. Smith will lead campers on a journey from ekphrasis to the mechanics of small press publishing to everything in between. The month of poetry fun and community will culminate with an open mic showcase at the Lakewood Arts Festival.
Poets of all experience levels are welcome. Each class week will feature: one Saturday in-person interactive field trip, some outside-of-class generative writing time, and one Wednesday evening class meeting via Zoom. Each Wednesday session will feature a mix of work sharing, group discussions, mini craft lessons, best practice sharing, and/or writing sprints.
Saturday trips include visits to Mac's Backs Books, Wick Poetry Center, Cleveland Museum of Art and more!
REGISTER HERE
Tell the truth, share your story, and connect with fellow writers at the Literary Cleveland Nonfiction Summer Camp. A four-week mix of in-person interactive field trips and online group workshop meetings, this Nonfiction Summer Camp is designed to create solidarity, camaraderie, and connection among Northeastern Ohio writers of all experience levels.
Whether you are writing a memoir, personal essays, or creative nonfiction, Story Club Cleveland founder Dana Norris will lead you through research, narrative structure, scene making, style and more. The month will culminate with sharing at Story Club Cleveland on September 6.
Creative Nonfiction of all experience levels are welcome. Each class week will feature: one Saturday in-person interactive field trip, some outside-of-class generative writing time, and one Wednesday evening class meeting via Zoom. Each Wednesday session will feature a mix of work sharing, group discussions, mini craft lessons, best practice sharing, and/or writing sprints.
Saturday trips include visits to CVNP Ledges, Imposters Theater, the Brownhoist and more!
REGISTER HERE!
Scholarship spots are available for these summer camps for writers in Northeast Ohio. Apply by April 15.
Building on the success of last year's Novelist Summer Camp, we are hosting three special summer programs for novelists, poets, and nonfiction writers looking for support, inspiration, productivity, and community.
For four weeks, attend a mix of fun, in-person activities and virtual sessions, all designed with novelists in mind.
On Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30pm, join the group virtually via Zoom. Each Wednesday session will feature mini craft lessons, writing time, and discussion with fellow writers. On Saturdays, attend excursions to find inspiration in works of art, uncover history in a cemetery, embark on a late-night bookstore scavenger hunt, and more, all while connecting with other writers and picking up craft and publishing tips. In-person and online events are supplemented by an online Slack group where writers can interact and share work (optional).
Novelists working in all genres and at all levels are welcome; this program aims to provide support and a productivity boost rather than critiques or traditional workshops, though writers will have the chance to connect in genre-based groups.
Saturday trips include visits to Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland Museum of Art, and a Loganberry Books after hours flashlight scavenger hunt!
REGISTER HERE!
Immerse yourself in the northeast Ohio poetry community and kickstart your poetic creativity with the Literary Cleveland Poetry Summer Camp. A five-week mix of in-person interactive field trips and online group workshop meetings, Poetry Summer Camp is designed to create solidarity, camaraderie, and connection among Northeastern Ohio poets of all experience levels.
Celebrated Cleveland poets Danny Caine and Michelle R. Smith will lead campers on a journey from ekphrasis to the mechanics of small press publishing to everything in between. The month of poetry fun and community will culminate with an open mic showcase at the Lakewood Arts Festival.
Poets of all experience levels are welcome. Each class week will feature: one Saturday in-person interactive field trip, some outside-of-class generative writing time, and one Wednesday evening class meeting via Zoom. Each Wednesday session will feature a mix of work sharing, group discussions, mini craft lessons, best practice sharing, and/or writing sprints.
Saturday trips include visits to Mac's Backs Books, Wick Poetry Center, Cleveland Museum of Art and more!
REGISTER HERE
Tell the truth, share your story, and connect with fellow writers at the Literary Cleveland Nonfiction Summer Camp. A four-week mix of in-person interactive field trips and online group workshop meetings, this Nonfiction Summer Camp is designed to create solidarity, camaraderie, and connection among Northeastern Ohio writers of all experience levels.
Whether you are writing a memoir, personal essays, or creative nonfiction, Story Club Cleveland founder Dana Norris will lead you through research, narrative structure, scene making, style and more. The month will culminate with sharing at Story Club Cleveland on September 6.
Creative Nonfiction of all experience levels are welcome. Each class week will feature: one Saturday in-person interactive field trip, some outside-of-class generative writing time, and one Wednesday evening class meeting via Zoom. Each Wednesday session will feature a mix of work sharing, group discussions, mini craft lessons, best practice sharing, and/or writing sprints.
Saturday trips include visits to CVNP Ledges, Imposters Theater, the Brownhoist and more!
REGISTER HERE!
Scholarship spots are available for these summer camps for writers in Northeast Ohio. Apply by April 15.
Laura Maylene Walter is the author of the novel Body of Stars (Dutton, 2021) and the short story collection Living Arrangements (BkMk Press, 2011). Laura’s writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, Kenyon Review, Slate, The Sun, and many others. Laura is a founding editor of Literary Cleveland’s Gordon Square Review and is the Ohio Center for the Book Fellow at Cleveland Public Library, where she hosts Page Count, a literary podcast.
Annmarie Kelly is the author of Here Be Dragons, a memoir about the wonderful misery of raising kids with someone you love. She is also the host of Wild Precious Life, a literary podcast about making the most of the time we have. Her writing has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered, in the New York Observer, Today Parenting, Black Fork, Anodyne, and Gordon Square Review. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Danny Caine is the author of the poetry collections Continental Breakfast, El Dorado Freddy's, Flavortown, and Picture Window, as well as the books How to Protect Bookstores and Why and How to Resist Amazon and Why. His poetry has appeared in The Slowdown, LitHub, DIAGRAM, HAD, and Barrelhouse. He's a co-owner of the Raven Book Store, Publishers Weekly's 2022 bookstore of the year.
Michelle R. Smith is a writer, poet, educator, cultural facilitator, and native Clevelander. She is the Programming Director for Literary Cleveland and author of the poetry collections Ariel in Black (2015) and The Vagina Analogues (2020).
Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club Cleveland, a nonfiction storytelling show held in Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, and Columbus. Her work has appeared in/on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Rumpus, Tampa Review, the Risk! podcast, WCPN Cleveland, and WBEZ Chicago, among many others. Dana is the author of The Storytelling Code: 10 Simple Rules to Shape and Tell a Brilliant Story.
