Literary Cleveland is currently seeking submissions of first-person stories, essays and poems by people who live in, work in, or have a personal connection to Mount Pleasant and surrounding areas!
Selected works will be published in Cleveland Stories Vol. 1, a book produced by Lit Cleveland. Selected contributors will be paid an honorarium of $50 and invited to a final reading and celebration tentatively scheduled for October 20th (details TBA).
The deadline for submissions is Saturday, September 15th. Please send submissions to info@litcleveland.org and use “Cleveland Stories” as the subject header. For submissions guidelines and writing prompts, go to our website
Gordon Square Review’s Fall Prose Contest Open through October 1st
Gordon Square Review is pleased to announce a 2018 Prose Contest for Northeast Ohio writers submitting fiction or nonfiction up to 7,500 words. Each entry costs $8. The winner will receive $250, publication in Issue 3 of Gordon Square Review, an invitation to read at the Issue 3 launch party, and a voucher for one free Literary Cleveland class or workshop. The contest deadline is October 1st – learn more about contest guidelines here.
Regular submissions for GSR’s third issue are also open through October 1st
September Classes
- Writing and Performing Poetry w/ DL Ware (Free!)
- Inspired by the Parks: A Reading of Prose and Poetry (Free!)
- Suspense on the Page w/ Shelley Costa & Casey Daniels ($40 / 30 for members)
- How to Be Heard…and Make People Listen w/ Christine Howey ($60 / 45 for members)
- Writing Wrongs: Social Change in Narrative Nonfiction w/ Christopher Johnston & Nikki Delamotte (Free!)
- It’s All About Race: Using Poetry to Resist Racism w/ Mary Weems (Free!)
- Writers and Readers: Paul Beatty (Free!)
- The Sherlock Project (Free!)
October Classes
- Developing a Writing Habit w/ Darlene Montonaro ($80 / 60 for members)
- Writing from Real Life w/ Judah Leblang ($60 / 45 for members)
- Who’s on Stage? Workshop for Beginning Playwrights w/ Mary Weems (Free!)
- Writing your Family History w/ Lee Chilcote (Free!)
- Resistance Writing w/ Laura Grace Weldon ($30 / 23 for members)
November Classes
- Writing Dialogue for Fiction, Plays, and Memoir w/ Les Hunter ($60 / 45 for members)
- How to Create Creative Nonfiction w/ Christopher Johnston (Free!)
Upcoming Opportunities / Lit Events Around Town
- How to Live in Ruins by Lee Chilcote on sale now ($15)
- Cleveland Review of Books seeks pitches and submissions for Issue One (Free!)
- Veterans’ Voices workshop w/ DL Ware (Free!)
