Northeast Ohio veterans: Do you have a story to tell? Do you enjoy writing poetry? Are you working on a novel or autobiography?
Join Literary Cleveland's free creative writing workshop for veterans to get started on new writing, do in-class exercises, get feedback, read great stories, essays, and poems, and meet other veterans. Led by instructor Hugh Martin.
Have fun with writing. Discover your voice. Tell your story.
Fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and poets are all welcome. You can be a beginner, or you can be an experienced writer. We want you!
Our Spring 2026 monthly workshops take place the third Tuesday of each month January-May online via Webex from 6:30-8:00pm:
Jan 20
Feb 17
Mar 10 (the 2nd Tuesday)
Apr 21
May 19
Literary Cleveland is proud to present Veterans' Voices for local veterans in partnership with the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System. For more information, please contact a Whole Health Team Member at (216) 791-2300 ext. 45986.
NOTE: These free programs are intended for those who have served in the United States Armed Forces or military.
Northeast Ohio veterans: Do you have a story to tell? Do you enjoy writing poetry? Are you working on a novel or autobiography?
Join Literary Cleveland's free creative writing workshop for veterans to get started on new writing, do in-class exercises, get feedback, read great stories, essays, and poems, and meet other veterans. Led by instructor Hugh Martin.
Have fun with writing. Discover your voice. Tell your story.
Fiction writers, nonfiction writers, and poets are all welcome. You can be a beginner, or you can be an experienced writer. We want you!
Our Spring 2026 monthly workshops take place the third Tuesday of each month January-May online via Webex from 6:30-8:00pm:
Jan 20
Feb 17
Mar 10 (the 2nd Tuesday)
Apr 21
May 19
Literary Cleveland is proud to present Veterans' Voices for local veterans in partnership with the VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System. For more information, please contact a Whole Health Team Member at (216) 791-2300 ext. 45986.
NOTE: These free programs are intended for those who have served in the United States Armed Forces or military.
Hugh Martin, a veteran of the Iraq War, is the author of In Country (BOA Editions, 2018), The Stick Soldiers (BOA Editions, 2013), and So, How Was The War? (Kent State UP, 2010). He is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Yaddo residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and a Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship.
