Fall 2022
Thursday, September 22nd
“Stretching Time,” a Workshop with Jordan Castro. Bellflower Hall, Room 102. 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Only 25 Participants/ Must pre-register by emailing writershouse@case.edu.
Friday, October 28th
“Tanka Walking,” A Workshop with Andrew Zawacki. Bellflower Hall, Room 102. 11:00a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Only 25 Participants/ Must pre-register by emailing writershouse@case.edu.
Friday, December 2nd,
“From Theory to Praxis: Implementing Linguistic Justice in the Classroom,” a Workshop with April Baker-Bell. Location TBA. 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Only 25 Participants/ Must pre-register by emailing writershouse@case.edu.
Spring 2022
Saturday, January 29th
“Dancing with Ghosts: How Haunted Memoir Rethinks the Real,” a Workshop with Bruce Owens Grimm. Virtual. 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. EST.
Friday, February 18th
“Words for Music Perhaps,” a Lecture by Tom Bishop. Guilford House. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. (This is an English colloquium supported by the Stonum Family Fund and co-sponsored by Writers House.)
Saturday, March 19th
“It Is Ourselves That We Remake: Revising and Re-envisioning Poems,” a Poetry Workshop with Diane Kendig. Virtual. 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. EST.
Friday, March 25th
A Poetry Reading by George Bilgere. Guilford House. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. (This is an English colloquium co-sponsored by Writers House.)
Friday, April 8th
“Constance Fenimore Woolson: The Story of her Revival and Why the Recovery of Nineteenth-Century Women Writers Matters,” a Lecture by Anne Rioux (The Sadar Lecture). Clark 206. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. (This is an English colloquium co-sponsored by Writers House.)
Fall 2021
Friday, October 1st
A Presentation by Cris Harris. Guilford Parlor. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.
Friday, October 29th
“Art Imitating Art: Writing Ekphrastic Poems, ” a Workshop with Brita Thielen. Virtual. 12:45 to 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 6th
“On Writing the Self,” a Memoir Workshop with Raechel Anne Jolie. Virtual. 1:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Spring 2021
Friday, February 19th
“Reimagining Research through Creative Nonfiction,” a Workshop with Amber Kidd and Allyson Wierenga. 1:00 to 2:15.
Wednesday, February 24th
“Who are you? Who are your people?” A Poetry Workshop with Marcie Rendon. 6:30 to 7:30. (Co-sponsored by the CWRU Social Justice Institute, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Lake Erie Native American Council, and Writers House.)
Saturday, March 6th
“Writing the Haibun: Fusing Prose & Haiku,” a Poetry Workshop with Ali Black. 1:00 to 3:30.
Saturday, March 20th
“Beyond the Creaking Step: How to Create Suspense,” a Fiction Workshop with Shelley Costa. 1:00 to 3:30.
Fall 2020
Friday, October 2nd
Poetry Reading: Celebrating Black Writing in Cleveland, featuring Michelle R. Smith and Mary Weems. Virtual. 3:15 to 4:15. (This is an English colloquium co-sponsored by Writers House and the Great Lakes African American Writers Conference.)
Friday, October 30th
“Permission to Play with Language: Or Learning to be Weird with Words,” a Workshop with Andrew Petracca and Joseph Spieles. Virtual. 12:45 to 2:00.
Saturday, November 14th
“Finding Your Story : Using Personal Experience to Write for Kids,” a Workshop with Tricia Springstubb. Virtual. 1:00 to 2:30.
Spring 2020
Friday, February 21st
A Poetry Reading by Jeff Gundy. Guilford Parlor. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. (This is an English colloquium co-sponsored by Writers House.)
Friday, February 28th
“A Little Million Doors: Poetry, Art, and the Sciences of Body and Mind (An Interdisciplinary Discussion).” Featured panelist: Chad Sweeney. Guilford Parlor. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. (This event is supported by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the English Department Colloquium Series, the Sharnoff Endowed Fund for Poetry, Writers House, and the Program in Medicine, Society, and Culture.)
Friday-Saturday, February 28th-29th
Symposium: “New Directions for Shakespeare and Psychoanalytic Studies.” Confirmed plenary speakers include: Richard Burt, Vera Camden, Dominique Scarfone. Bellflower Hall. (This event is sponsored by the Baker Nord Center for the Humanities, Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, and Writers House.)
Saturday, February 29th
February Fiction Conference with Allegra Hyde, Kevin P. Keating, D.M. Pulley, and Abby L. Vandiver. Clark Hall. 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (This is a Literary Cleveland event co-sponsored by Writers House.) https://www.litcleveland.org/classes-workshops/february-fiction-conference
Fall 2019
Tuesday, November 5th
“Pulling from the Headlines: Poetry Written After Media,” a Roundtable Discussion featuring visiting poets Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and Javier Zamora, journalist James Sheeler, and Dr. Damaris Puñales-Alpízar. Guilford Parlor. 5:30 p.m.-6:45 p.m.
Friday, November 8th
A Poetry Reading by Xavier Zamora and Marcelo Hernandez Castilo. Senior Classroom, Tinkham Veale University Center. 3:15 to 4:15 p.m.
Saturday, November 16th
November Nonfiction Conference with Lawrence Lanahan, Judah Leblang, Sarah Lohman, and Charlotte Morgan. Clark Hall. 11:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Literary Cleveland event co-sponsored by Writers House) https://www.litcleveland.org/classes-workshops/november-nonfiction-conference
Sunday, November 17th
Black Women Writing Cleveland. Ali Black, Charlotte Morgan, Michelle Smith, and Mary Weems. South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch / William N. Skirball Writers’ Center / 1876 South Green Road / South Euclid, OH 44121. 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. https://english.case.edu/black-women-writing-cleveland/
Friday, November 22nd
“Playful Revision,” a Workshop with Michelle Koski and Brita Thielen. Bellflower Hall, Room 101. 12:45 to 2:00.
