Lee Chilcote is an award-winning writer and author whose work has been published in The Washington Post, The Associated Press, Vanity Fair, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland Magazine and many others. His poetry chapbooks are The Shape of Home and How to Live in Ruins. He is a founder and past executive director of Literary Cleveland and The Land. He lives in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland with his family.
We caught up with Sharon Holbrook, an experienced editor and writer with a love for Cleveland neighborhoods who recently joined The Land as managing editor.
With the help of nonprofit US Together, refugees in the Cleveland area work to get small businesses up and running. Funded by the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, the program has helped more than 30 entrepreneurs.
Owen MacMillan is a recent graduate of Kent State University's journalism school who is working as a summer intern with The Land. We recently caught up with Owen to ask him what he learned while at KSU, why journalism, and what he's getting out of working with The Land.
Brie Camp is a summer 2022 intern with The Land, through our partnership with The NewsLab at Kent State University. Recently we caught up with her to learn more about her background, why she chose journalism, and the work she's doing with The Land.
This past week, The Land writers Grant Segall and Michael Indriolo took home honors with the Press Club of Cleveland’s All Ohio Excellence in Journalism awards.
During the last few years, new businesses, housing, and arts organizations have opened along E. 105th St. in Glenville, bringing new life to the area. But most of this new development has been concentrated near University Circle. Further north along E. 105th St. new development has not yet taken root as expected.
The Land is looking for its first managing editor to join a lean leadership team. Working with urgency to meet The Land's growing demand for quality news, the managing editor will help take The Land's community-powered journalism to the next level.
Developer Russell Berusch bet big on living small when he completed 29 micro-suites on Larchmere. But will Clevelanders embrace it, particularly those living on historic Hessler Street in University Circle, where Berusch’s approved micro-unit development has drawn opposition?
Nuisance complaints such as trash, high grass and weeds are prevalent across the entire city. Council members want a quicker response time and an online system for tracking complaints.
Nuisance complaints such as trash, high grass and weeds are prevalent across the entire city. Council members want a quicker response time and an online system for tracking complaints.
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