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CLEVELAND, Ohio - When 25-year-old writer Brendan Whitt read his work on stage for the first time during a Literary Cleveland event at the Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern, he knew he wanted to get active in more happenings like it. So he decided to organize his own...

"The Black Pen," a reading to promote Black literature in Cleveland...  Locals J. Everett Prewitt and Rhonda Crowder will be the featured authors, along with Whitt himself...

COOL CLEVELAND

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Young Cleveland author and filmmaker Brendan Whitt, who is currently working on his masters in creative writing at Cleveland State University, published his first novella A Summer in Harlem in 2013. It tells of an Alabama teen, sent to Harlem for a visit during the summer of 1948, who discovers that the legendary Black arts mecca has been overrun by poverty, drugs and despair....

tHE cLEVELAND WAY BLOG

CLEVELAND, OHIO - ...Brendan has published two novellas and two collections of poetry as well as several features appearing in Cleveland publications the Call & Post and Volume Magazine Cleveland. He also runs his own creative content company OPAL which launched in 2018. In his spare time Brendan likes to work on his screenwriting and will release two projects, a documentary and a short film in 2018....