The Inkubator is Literary Cleveland’s free annual festival for writers and readers. Generate new writing, improve your craft, and advance your career.
September 18–23
2023
cleveland
PUBLIC LIBRARY
ABOUT
THE
CONFERENCE
Mon SEP 18 / 7:00PM ET / fiction
Lydia Davis & Danny Caine
Tue SEP 19 / 7:00PM ET / nonfiction
Hafizah Augustus Geter &
Joseph Earl Thomas
Wed SEP 20 / 7:00PM ET / poetry
Clint Smith & Hanif Abdurraqib
EVENT
fiction
Marie Vibbert
nonfiction
Stacy Jane Grover
poetry
ANITA Skeen
business
Michele Tracy Berger
beyond
Silk Allen, Rico Brown, Sonia Feldman, Andrea Imdacha, Michael Loderstedt, & Corey Miller
fiction
Angela Crook, JD Belcher, Mary Grimm, Miesha Wilson Headen, Susan Petrone, & Abby Vandiver
nonfiction
Lara Lillibridge
poetry
Manuel Iris
business
Sonia Feldman
beyond
Jason Harris, Avery Ware, & Willow Watson
fiction
Liz Breazeale & Laura Maylene Walter
nonfiction
Sam Allard, Stephanie Casanova, Sharon Holbrook, & Ken Schneck
poetry
Jon Conley, Zach Peckham, & Alyssa Perry
business
David Gray
beyond
Cori Sykes
EVENT
keynote
fiction
Matt Bell
nonfiction
Lee Chilcote
poetry
Tiara Dinevska-McGuire
business
Jess Jelsma Masterton
beyond
Jason Harris, Laurie Kincer, Dr. Raquel M. Ortiz, & Jamie Lyn Smith
TEEN
Matt Haberbusch
fiction
Rakesh Satyal
nonfiction
Amy Fish
poetry
Siaara Freeman
business
Prince Shakur
beyond
Manuel Iris
TEEN
Raja Belle Freeman
fiction
Tommy Dean
nonfiction
Laura Walter & Elissa Washuta
poetry
Jason Harris, Caryl Pagel, Zach Savich, Robin Beth Schaer, & Lindsay Turner
business
Jacqui Lipton
beyond
Phillip Kennedy Johnson
TEEN
Cynthia Larsen
fiction
Nardine Taleb
nonfiction
Sean Thomas Dougherty
poetry
Kisha Nicole Foster
business
Eris Eady, Ajah Hales, Nailah Muhammad, & Josiah Quarles
beyond
Mary Biddinger, Jacob Bruggeman, Jason Harris, Mitch James, & Zach Peckham
TEEN
Amy Hughes
reading
Sean Thomas Dougherty, Siaara Freeman, Manuel Iris, Kevin Latimer, Rakesh Satyal, Zach Savich, Robin Beth Schaer, & Elissa Washuta
SUN, SEP 10
SUN, SEP 24
SEP 1–30
The Literary Cleveland Inkubator Writing Conference is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cleveland Foundation, the Cyrus Eaton Foundation, the Nord Family Foundation, and the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
The Literary Cleveland Inkubator Writing Conference is sponsored by The Cleveland Public Library. Our Gold Sponsor is Visible Voice Books. Silver Sponsors include Ashland University, Loganberry Books, Mac’s Backs Books and KeyBank, and Bronze Sponsors include Alma College, Appletree Books, Clevo Books, Debbie George State Farm Agent, Fireside Book Shop, Hathaway Brown, Margaret W. Wong and Associates, OverDrive, and Wilks University Graduate College in Creative Writing.