Wed 10/29 @ 6:30PM

Literary Cleveland’s Plum City reading, which take place at Loganberry Books on Larchmere Boulevard, offers lit lovers an opportunity to hear from both local authors and writers from around the country, who are published on independent presses without huge marketing budgets. So their work could be easy to miss. At these events, you can hear the author’s own voice as they read from their work, and purchase their books directly from them.

At the final event of the year, the authors featured are Case Western Reserve assistant professor/novelist Caren Beilin, poet Leila Chatti and Oberlin visiting assistant professor Cleo Qian. Beilin has just published her latest book, a novel titled Sea, Poison.

This installment of the Plum City Reading Series will take place Wednesday, October 29 at Loganberry Books (13015 Larchmere in Cleveland. Doors open at 6:30 and reading begins at 7pm to be immediately followed by an afterparty at the Literary Cleveland Offices (13002 Larchmere). Chatti is a Tunisian-American poet, whose latest book Wildness Before Something Sublime came out earlier this year.  Cleo Qian is queer fiction writer and poet, who was a 2024 National Poetry Series finalist and published her more recent story collection Lert’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go in 2023.

Doors open at 6:30, reading starts at 7pm. Following the reading there’s an afterparty at Literary Cleveland’s offices which are right across the street from Loganberry Books.

Admission is pay-what-you-can. Register for the event here.