Devote a day to your writing at our Winter Writing Retreat, Saturday, May 23 from 9am-4pm.
We're back at Cleveland State University's Mather Mansion for this season's event (check your confirmation for public transportation and parking information).
We'll have food and drink, chairs and tables, community for encouragement and accountability, and writing prompts in each genre to help you make progress on your project or to get started on something new.
After a brief welcome, you will head to the genre room of your choice to get some brief writing prompts and inspiration from your genre leader: Damien McClendon in poetry, Tara Pringle Jefferson in nonfiction, and a fiction leader to be announced. Then we will have 45 minutes of silent writing time for you to generate new work with built in breaks between writing sprints will allow you to stretch, refuel, and chat with other writers before getting back to work.
Knock out a new poem or two, draft a chapter of a novel or memoir, revise that essay or story you have been working on, and earn a reward for achieving your writing goal for the day.
9:30-10:30 – Check In
10:30-11:00 – Welcome/orientation
11:00-11:15 – Breakout 1 with writing prompts in each genre
11:15-12:00 – Writing Sprint 1
12:00-12:30 – Break
12:30-12:45 – Breakout 2 with writing prompts in each genre
12:45-1:30 – Writing Sprint 2
1:30-2:00 – Break
2:00-2:15 – Breakout 3 with writing prompts in each genre
2:15-3:00 – Writing Sprint 3
3:00-4:00 – Optional sharing
This class takes place at Cleveland State University's Mather Mansion (2605 Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH 44115).
A limited number of scholarship spots are available for this program for writers in Northeast Ohio. Email Michelle Smith at msmith@litcleveland.org to inquire.
Cancel at least 48 hours in advance of the first class meeting to receive a full refund. Email msmith@litcleveland.org.
Devote a day to your writing at our Winter Writing Retreat, Saturday, May 23 from 9am-4pm.
We're back at Cleveland State University's Mather Mansion for this season's event (check your confirmation for public transportation and parking information).
We'll have food and drink, chairs and tables, community for encouragement and accountability, and writing prompts in each genre to help you make progress on your project or to get started on something new.
After a brief welcome, you will head to the genre room of your choice to get some brief writing prompts and inspiration from your genre leader: Damien McClendon in poetry, Tara Pringle Jefferson in nonfiction, and a fiction leader to be announced. Then we will have 45 minutes of silent writing time for you to generate new work with built in breaks between writing sprints will allow you to stretch, refuel, and chat with other writers before getting back to work.
Knock out a new poem or two, draft a chapter of a novel or memoir, revise that essay or story you have been working on, and earn a reward for achieving your writing goal for the day.
9:30-10:30 – Check In
10:30-11:00 – Welcome/orientation
11:00-11:15 – Breakout 1 with writing prompts in each genre
11:15-12:00 – Writing Sprint 1
12:00-12:30 – Break
12:30-12:45 – Breakout 2 with writing prompts in each genre
12:45-1:30 – Writing Sprint 2
1:30-2:00 – Break
2:00-2:15 – Breakout 3 with writing prompts in each genre
2:15-3:00 – Writing Sprint 3
3:00-4:00 – Optional sharing
This class takes place at Cleveland State University's Mather Mansion (2605 Euclid Ave, Cleveland OH 44115).
A limited number of scholarship spots are available for this program for writers in Northeast Ohio. Email Michelle Smith at msmith@litcleveland.org to inquire.
Cancel at least 48 hours in advance of the first class meeting to receive a full refund. Email msmith@litcleveland.org.
Damien McClendon is an award-winning poet from Youngstown, OH. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literary Translation from Columbia University, and his work has been published in Indiana Review and elsewhere. From 2018-2020, he was the Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights, and he currently lives in the Cleveland area working on a full-length book of poems.
Tara Pringle Jefferson is the author of Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman’s Guide to Self-Care and Generational Healing (Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins).
