November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and to honor this annual challenge to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days, Appletree Books, an independent bookstore in Cleveland Heights, is inviting local writers to write in the window . . . as in its store front window. Local writers have signed up, following the footsteps …
Read More Writing in a Bookstore Window: One NaNoWriMo’s Experience(Sharon Rigg) Born: 1945 Ohio connection: Birth South Euclid Sharon Creech, a writer of more than 20 picture books for children and novels for young adults (YA), was born and raised in South Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland. She grew up there as part of, as she says, “a noisy and rowdy family.” Relatives told …
Read More Creech, SharonBorn: July 21, 1899Died: April 27, 1932 Ohio connection: Birth Garrettsville Harold Hart Crane, regarded as one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century, was born in Garrettsville, Ohio, on July 21, 1899. His father, a successful candy and syrup manufacturer, later moved the family to Warren before sending his son to live with his maternal …
Read More Hart CraneBrews + Prose is a monthly Author reading series that happens on a Tuesday every month at 7:00 p.m in the Ohio City Room at Market Garden Brewery located at 1947 W 25th St, Cleveland, OH 44113. On Tuesday, November 14th at 7:00 p.m the featured authors will be John Freeman and Adam Giannelli John Freeman is an …
Read More Brews + Prose: John Freeman and Adam GiannelliIn February 2015, several Cleveland Public Library staff members attended the YWCA of Greater Cleveland’s inaugural It’s Time to Talk, a forum where diverse people engage in conversations about race, discrimination, unconscious bias, and cultural competency in our community. In the same year, to answer the question presented to forum attendees: “What could you do to help …
Read More It’s Time to Talk: OCFB Book Sets Focus on Issues of Diversity and Social JusticeThis November there will be many people the world over putting pen to paper and fixing fingers to keyboards, as they take up the challenge to write 50,000 words–in 30 days–for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Oh, the spaces they’ll write: in schools; in public libraries; in coffee houses and cafes; in bookstores and . . …
Read More A Unique Space to Write for NaNoWriMo: Sign Up to be a Writer in the Window of Appletree BooksMeet Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste’s second novel is set in Shaker Heights and explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, the ferocious pull of motherhood – and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. A member of the SHHS Class of 1998, Celeste …
Read More A Visit From Celeste NgLetters About Literature will provide a free one-hour webinar for educators on Wednesday, October 25, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Click here for more information and registration link. Full Description of the Event: Letters About Literature is a reading and writing contest for students in grades 4-12. Students are asked to read a book, poem or …
Read More Letters About Literature: Webinar for EducatorsBorn: 1979 Ohio Connection: Birth Morrow County When she was in eighth grade, award winning YA author Mindy L. McGinnis knew that she wanted to be a writer. She held several jobs before becoming an assistant to a teen librarian with the Cardington-Lincoln Local Schools. There she worked (and wrote) for 13 years, until leaving in …
Read More Mindy McGinnisThe Ohio Arts Council is inviting all Ohio high schools to register now for the 2017-2018 Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest. Registration Deadline is Friday, Dec 01, 2017 at 11:30 PM Poetry Out Loud is a free national program sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, and administered in …
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