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Cuyahoga County Public Library is honored to continue the important work of the former LIT: Cleveland's Literary Center. Please continue to visit our site as we build programs, workshops and opportunities for writers.
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Writing Workshops: Series | Writing Classes: Single Events
| Free Author Events | Ticketed Author Events
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Third Thursday of each month
Continuing the tradition of The LIT's Poetry Workshop, this workshop, led by Robert McDonough is free and open to the public. Please register. May 17 | June 21 | July 19 | August 16
every Saturday, June 16 through August 18
Creating nonfiction, personal essays and memoirs that report real life. This workshop, led by Neal Chandler, is free and open to the public. When you register for this course, you are committing to attending ten Saturday sessions. Please do not register if you cannot attend at least nine of the sessions.
Mondays, July 30, August 6, August 13
Have a book idea that just won't go away? This three-week class will get you started, whether you want to write a nonfiction book, novel or memoir. Led by Deanna Adams. Please register.
6:30 PM
This session will explore the pros and cons to help you decide what’s best for you and your book. Led by Deanna Adams. Please register.
This class will cover what you need to know about agents and help you decide if you do, in fact, need one. We’ll cover what an agent can and can’t do for you and where to look for the right one to meet your needs. Led by Deanna Adams. Please register.
7:00 PM
Author Carole Calladine will examine how successful writers and you use time. Learn how to jumpstart and complete a writing project with ten essential writer tricks of the trade. Please register.
Author Erin O'Brien will share the secret recipe to great food writing, with easy tips to help you turn a great dish into a great story. Please register.
Meet published writers hosted by the Library, ask questions about their craft and practice, and get a book signed!
Author of The Man from Primrose Lane
Wednesday, June 6
Wednesday, July 18
Author of The Gilded Age East-West Summer Reading Fest!
Author of The Deception at Lyme, or The Peril of Persuasion (Mr. & Mrs. Darcy mystery) East-West Summer Reading Fest!
Author of The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts Continuing a tradition of The LIT, Local Perspectives is back! Local Perspectives is a book discussion followed by a visit from the author.
Author of My Friend Dahmer
Independence High School auditorium
Author of upcoming Size 12 and Ready to Rock, a Heather Wells mystery,The Princess Diaries, and many more.
Author of upcoming Shadow of Night, the sequel to A Discovery of Witches.
Also, check out these FREE author events ...
Authors @ CCPL
Meet published writers hosted by the library, ask questions about their craft and practice, and get a book signed!
The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage program is the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation’s signature fundraising event.
Through Writers Center Stage, we are proud to present nationally recognized and award-winning authors to area book lovers.
Each season the program strives to present an outstanding and diverse representation of the contemporary literary world as it adds to the region’s great cultural offerings.
Founded in January 1974, The LIT was incorporated October 15, 1976 as the Poets’ League of Greater Cleveland. The mission of the organization was to give voice to Cleveland’s growing community of beat style and street poets, for whom poetry was not an academic endeavor, but for whom poetry was a means of artistic, literary, social, and political expression. With a mission to promote the art of written and spoken word poetry, The PLGC was a place where workshops, classes, and poetry readings were organized and executed. By the mid 1980′s, however, the artistic and social climate began to change, and prose was incorporated into the purview of the League, and in 1991, The Poets’ League merged with Cleveland Writers’ Center to form the Poets’ & Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland. In expanding its mission, vision, and operations to include a broader spectrum of literary genres, fiction, essay, memoir, and journalism became areas of study and workshop. After that time, the name changed again to The LIT: Cleveland’s Literary Center, but the focus remained literature across genres and literary arts, seeking to enrich lives through reading and creative expression. Cuyahoga County Public Library is honored to continue the important work of The Lit.
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