Tell the truth, share your story, and connect with fellow writers at the Literary Cleveland Nonfiction Summer Camp. A four-week mix of in-person interactive field trips and online group workshop meetings, this Nonfiction Summer Camp is designed to create solidarity, camaraderie, and connection among Northeastern Ohio writers of all experience levels.
Whether you are writing a memoir, personal essays, or creative nonfiction, Story Club Cleveland founder Dana Norris will lead you through research, narrative structure, scene making, style and more. The month will culminate with sharing at Story Club Cleveland on September 6.
Creative Nonfiction of all experience levels are welcome. Each class week will feature: one Saturday in-person interactive field trip, some outside-of-class generative writing time, and one Wednesday evening class meeting via Zoom. Each Wednesday session will feature a mix of work sharing, group discussions, mini craft lessons, best practice sharing, and/or writing sprints.
Saturday Field Trip activities will take place at the following locations:
- Saturday, August 3, 3-5pm at Goldhorn Brewery
- Saturday, August 10, 2-4pm at Ledges Trailhead in Cuyahoga Valley National Park
- Saturday, August 17, 7-9:30pm at Imposters Theater (tickets included)
- Saturday, August 24, 10am-12pm at the Brownhoist
- Friday, September 6, 7pm at the Brownhoist (tickets included)
Instructor:
Dana Norris is the founder of
Story Club Cleveland, a nonfiction storytelling show held in Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, and Columbus. Her work has appeared in/on McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Rumpus, Tampa Review, the Risk! podcast, WCPN Cleveland, and WBEZ Chicago, among many others. Dana is the author of
The Storytelling Code: 10 Simple Rules to Shape and Tell a Brilliant Story. Learn more about Dana at
www.dananorris.net.
