Creating New Fiction - March 2026

Are you writing a novel? Short stories? Flash fiction? It's all welcome in this six-week generative workshop designed to help you create new work or make progress on your project. You'll respond to writing prompts, write outside of class to meet weekly deadlines, analyze published fiction, and discuss craft elements such as plot, character development, structure, style, tension, pacing, and more.

Instructor: Meg Toth is a fiction writer and an Assistant Editor/Reader for Conjunctions Magazine. Her short fiction—which has appeared in such venues as The Massachusetts Review, The Idaho Review, Pithead Chapel, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet (Kelly Link & Gavin Grant), and Barrelhouse—was nominated for the 2025 & 2024 Pushcart Prize and the 2024 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She lived in New York City for seventeen years, where she taught college film, literature, and writing courses, but she recently moved back to her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, a place that appears frequently in her writing. Toth has received residencies from the Ragdale Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (where she was awarded the Alison Lurie Memorial Fellowship for Female-Identifying Fiction Writers) to work on Ashworks Estates, a Gothic campus novel. Toth enjoys bird-watching, playing complex board games, and going on food adventures with her partner.

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Details: Creating New Fiction takes place Wednesdays March 11, March 18, March 25, April 1, April 8, and April 15 from 6:30-8:30pm in person at the Literary Cleveland office (13002 Larchmere Blvd).

Genre: Fiction

Level: All levels

Format: Craft and generative workshop with writing in and outside of class.

Location: This class takes place in person at the Literary Cleveland office (13002 Larchmere Blvd).

Size: Limited to 14 participants (including scholarships).

Suggested Sequence: Follow this class with a craft and/or generative nonfiction workshop, a feedback course, or a publishing course.

Scholarships: Two scholarship spots are available for this class for writers in Northeast Ohio. Apply by December 15. Click here to apply.

Cancellations & Refunds: Cancel at least 48 hours in advance of the first class meeting to receive a full refund. Email info@litcleveland.org.

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