A literary circle is a small group of students, scholars or writers who gather together to discuss a piece of literature in depth.^[1][2][3][4]

Famous or noteworthy examples include:

• The Socrates School
• The Bloomsbury Group
• The Dymock Poets
• The Algonquin Roundtable
• The Inklings
• Stratford-on-Odéon
• The Factory
• The El Floridita literary circle, which included Ernest Hemingway
• The Mutual Admiration Society
• The Whitechapel Boys
• The Streatham Worthies
• The Budh Sabha^[5]