Devote a day to your writing at our Spring Writing Retreat, Saturday, January 24 from 10am-4pm.
We're in a new location this time at St. Ignatius Hall on the campus of John Carroll University.
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: Dave Lucas in poetry, Raechel Anne Jolie in nonfiction, and Isaiah Hunt in fiction. 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 John Carroll University ~ St. Ignatius Hall rooms 225, 226, and 230.
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 info@litcleveland.org.
Devote a day to your writing at our Spring Writing Retreat, Saturday, January 24 from 10am-4pm.
We're in a new location this time at St. Ignatius Hall on the campus of John Carroll University.
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: Dave Lucas in poetry, Raechel Anne Jolie in nonfiction, and Isaiah Hunt in fiction. 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 John Carroll University ~ St. Ignatius Hall rooms 225, 226, and 230.
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 info@litcleveland.org.
Dave Lucas was born and raised in Cleveland. He studied literature and poetry at John Carroll University (BA, 2002), the University of Virginia (MFA, 2004), and the University of Michigan (PhD, 2014). His first book of poems, Weather (VQR / Georgia, 2011), received the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Named by Rita Dove as one of thirteen “young poets to watch,” he has also received a “Discovery/The Nation Prize and a Cleveland Arts Prize.
Raechel Anne Jolie is a writer and educator living in Ohio, on Erie and Mississauga land. They are the author of Rust Belt Femme.
Isaiah Hunt was born and raised in Cleveland. An Afrofuturist at heart, his favorite writers are Sun Ra, Daniel Jose Older, and Nnedi Okarafor. He is a second-year in Fiction at the NEOMFA Program and a graduate teaching assistant for both Kent State University and the Wick Poetry Center. Isaiah was a spring 2021 Literary Cleveland intern and loves sharing his obsession with storytelling with others.
