WritersShop Writing Workshop - Storytelling

Name: WritersShop Writing Workshop - Storytelling
Start: 2025-09-30T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-30T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Point Place Library

Schedule

Tue Sep 30 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Point Place Library | Toledo, OH

Join us at the Point Place Library on Tuesday, September 30th at 6pm for a writing workshop with the incredible Ray McNiece, master storyteller.
Ray McNiece is the author of nine books of poems and monologues and two poetry/music CDs. His two most recent books is Love Song for Cleveland, a collaboration with photographer Tim Lachina and Breath Burns Away, New Haiku
(Red Giant Press, 2019). His forthcoming book Bone Key Sutra, includes Haiban, song lyrics and poems from his many sojourns in Florida. The Orlando Sentinel reporting on Ray’s solo theater piece Us — Talking Across America at the Fringe Festival called him “a modern day descendant of Woody Guthrie. He has a way
with words and a wry sense of humor.” The Star-Phoenix said, “His thoughtful writing combines with perfectly timed delivery to create a powerful wordscape that owes as much to jazz as drama.” His most recent theatrical piece, Lives of A Poet — A Verse Autobiography, premiered at Cleveland Public Theater in 2016. He has toured Russia with Yevgeny Yevtushenko, appeared on Good Morning, Russia and performed at the Moscow Polytech, the Russian Poets’ Hall of Fame where he was
dubbed ‘the American Mayakovsky.’ He has toured Italy twice with legendary beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He fronts the blues rock band, Tongue-in-Groove. He has received a Creative Work Force Fellowship, a CPAC grant and residencies at The Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the Jack Kerouac House. He was the 10th Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. He was Awarded a $50,000 Poet Laureate Grant from the American Academy of Poetry for his Poem for Cleveland Project in 2022 from which the anthology “Poem For Cleveland” was created. www.raymcniece.com
WritersShop Writing Workshops are free and open to all. Hosted by Lucas County Poet Laureate Jonie McIntire, WritersShop workshops are hosted on the final Tuesday of each month from 6-8pm by a different literary artist. The next two workshops will be on October 28 at Point Place library led by Chiquita Mullins Lee and on November 25 at Toledo Heights library led by Adrian Lime.