2025 Catholic Literary Arts Events

Would you enjoy meeting CLA members and friends in a positive atmosphere encouraging support and collaboration?

Would you enjoy hearing about more publication opportunities from fellow writers in a CLA community for Writers of Faith? 

Join us for a social hour of introductions and camaraderie at one of CLA’s Spring Happy Hours. Conducted via Zoom and moderated by Maura Harrison, the sessions will invite participants to share about opportunities for collaboration and/or critique, spiritual lessons, and opportunities for publication.  To get everyone talking, each Happy Hour will have a general topic for discussion. Then we’ll see where the topics lead us.

Maura H. Harrison is a writer and artist from Fredericksburg, VA. Her written and visual works have appeared or are forthcoming in Dappled Things, Ekstasis Magazine, The St. Austin Review, Solum Journal, Windhover, Trampoline: A Journal of Poetry, Amethyst Magazine, Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, and others. She has received recognition in poetry competitions sponsored by Catholic Literary Arts (CLA) and the Society of Classical Poets, receiving first place recognition for her poem in CLA's 2023 Marian Advent Prayer Contest, and second place recognition for her poem in the 2024 Assumption Poetry Contest. She also placed first in the 2024 Advent Poetry Contest: Listening with Mary

To register for February 28, 2025, follow this link.

To register for April 25, 2025, follow this link.