New! November Workshops
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) events ($40.00 for series/$15.00 for workshops — member and youth discounts available)
Lit Cleveland’s NaNoWriMo workshops are for anyone working on fiction, whether you’re formally participating in NaNoWriMo or not. Co-hosted by Lake Erie Ink. For teens (6th – 12th grade) and adults.
Tuesday, November 1st, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Kickstart NaNoWriMo with novelist panel and Come Write In! at Lake Erie Ink
Thursday, November 10th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Troubleshooting Fiction with Laura Walter
Thursday, November 17th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Building Worlds with Linda Robertson
Tuesday, November 29th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Come Write In! at LEI w/tea, coffee and hot chocolate
Wednesday, December 7th, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: “Thank God It’s Over” NaNoWriMo Celebration
Roots of American Music Songwriting Workshop ($18.00/$15.00 for members)
Saturday November 5th, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm, Church of the Covenant, 11205 Euclid Ave.
Explore the art of songwriting with two experienced musicians. Develop new ideas, polish a song you’re already working on, and enjoy a chance to receive feedback on your work. An open mic will follow the two workshops.
Roots and Rust Belt Songwriting w/Kevin Richards
Storytelling with the Blues w/Afi Scruggs
Writing from Real Life w/Judah Leblang ($45.00/$40.00 for members)
Saturday, November 12th, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm, location TBA
Writers are observers, continually examining our lives and the lives of others. For memoir writers, our life experiences become the raw material of our creative work. This workshop will focus on difficult circumstances that might become the rich “raw material” for new work. By the end, you will have worked through a topic and be well on your way to writing about it (and others) in a thoughtful and critical way.
Between the Lines with Nin Andrews and Karen Schubert
Wednesday, October 19th, 7:00 pm, Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern, 11625 Euclid Ave.
Nin Andrews’ poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies including Ploughshares, Agni, The Paris Review, and four editions of Best American Poetry. The author of 6 chapbooks and 6 full-length poetry collections, she has won two Ohio individual artist grants, the Pearl Chapbook Contest, the Kent State University chapbook contest,the Gerald Cable Poetry Award and the Ohioana poetry book award for 2016. , Someone Wants to Steal My Name. Her book, Why God Is a Woman, was published by BOA Editions in 2015. Her chapbook, Our Lady of the Orgasm, will be out in October 2016.
Karen Schubert’s publications include four poetry chapbooks, and poems, short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, interviews and reviews in Water~Stone Review, Artful Dodge, diode poetry journal, terrain.org, PoetsArtists, Apple Valley Review, DMQ, Best American Poetry blog, Poets’ Quarterly, AGNI online and many others. She holds an MFA from the NEOMFA, where she served as editor of Whiskey Island Magazine. She is co-founder of Lit Youngstown, a literary arts organization.
In partnership with the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern and East Cleveland Public Library.
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Tuesday, October 4th: Words and Wine featuring Mary Quade, Bistro 70 in Painesville
Tuesday, October 4th: Brews and Prose w/Tomas Q. Morin and Dave Hill, Market Garden Brewery
More info at www.clevelandpoetics.blogspot.com.
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