This piece appears in the “Breaking the Silence: Queer Self, Life, and Love in Northeast Ohio” anthology. “Breaking the Silence” is a part of Literary Cleveland’s…
This piece appears in the “Breaking the Silence: Queer Self, Life, and Love in Northeast Ohio” anthology. “Breaking the Silence” is a part of Literary Cleveland’s…
This piece appears in the “Breaking the Silence: Queer Self, Life, and Love in Northeast Ohio” anthology. “Breaking the Silence” is a part of Literary Cleveland’s…
E.F. Schraeder has been weaving creepy tales since childhood. As soon as the prolific Cleveland-born and Cleveland-based author could wield a pen, a robust library of…
“Out of Ohio” is our interview series featuring notable LGBTQ+ individuals born and raised in Ohio who are now out in the wider world using their…
Queer author Christopher Barzak loves ghost stories. Growing up on his grandparents’ farm in Kinsman, his family’s penchant for telling stories about the supernatural and unexplained…
by David-Elijah Nahmod (A version of this piece appeared in EchoMag.com.) Prolific author Jim Provenzano covers some heavy ground in Finding Tulsa, his seventh novel. Written…
Waking up today felt a bit harder. Getting out of bed even more so. There were three things that keep whirling in my head today as…
Written by Megan Powell, Senior Library Services Assistant, Madisonville Branch Library This piece originally appeared in the blog of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and appears…
Often in LGBTQ+ stories, the Midwest is depicted as a place to flee rather than somewhere queer life exists constantly, in all its beautiful complexity, regardless…