Special Series

Spotlight: Interview with 2023-2024 Emerging Writer Fellow Stevie Billow

We had a chance to check in with one of our 2023-24 Emerging Writer Fellows, Stevie Billow, at their halfway point and ask a few questions about their time at GrubStreet so far.

Special Series

Dept. of Congrats: November 2023 Community Successes

Our community is closing November 2023 out with twenty-seven publications, six awards and prizes, and seven book publications!

Special Series

Spotlight: Interview with 2023-2024 Emerging Writer Fellow Malik Thompson

We had a chance to check in with one of our 2023-24 Emerging Writer Fellows, Malik Thompson, at his halfway point and ask a few questions about his time at GrubStreet so far.

Special Series Writing Life Advice

Writing Your First Novel? Be Messy and Be Radical

Novel Generator Instructor Elizabeth Santiago shares how craft books can help you without writing your novel for you.

Special Series

Light Up the Center Performer Spotlight: Russell Gutta Ferguson

We are excited to announce we have just added another amazing performer to our Light Up the Center event this Thursday, November 2nd. Boston native and a Krump champion, Russell Gutta Ferguson.

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Light Up the Center Performer Spotlight: Fiona Maurissette

GrubStreet's Light Up the Center event this year on Thursday, November 2nd, will be a lively in-person gathering with performances, food and drinks. A community celebration dedicated to the theme of working for equity across the arts, it will feature performances by Boston-based artists from diverse disciplines, like educator and writer Fiona Maurissette.

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Light Up the Center Performer Spotlight: Shilpi Suneja

With the theme of working for equity across the arts, GrubStreet's Light Up the Center event this year on Thursday, November 2nd will feature performances by Boston-based artists from diverse disciplines, like GrubStreet author Shilpi Suneja.

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Light Up the Center Performer Spotlight: Fabiola Méndez

As part of GrubStreet's Light Up the Center event this year, we're hosting a special reception on Thursday, November 2nd, to celebrate and support GrubStreet's expansive writing community with exciting, multidisciplinary performances and a lively in-person gathering with food and drink. 

Special Series Writing Life Advice

“The Fellowship Transformed the Way I Saw Myself”: How Teen Writers are Creating Community at Grub

For three weeks every summer, GrubStreet's Teen Summer Fellowship immerses high school students in the writer's life of creative craft and publishing, working with published authors and receiving a stipend for their commitment to the program and their work as artists. 2017 Fellow Justin Celebi reflects on the community he found in the program, and how the friends he made transformed the way he felt about himself as a writer.

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How the Essay Incubator Transformed My Writing and Reshaped My Life

Jennifer Dines writes about her experience in the Essay Incubator and how the program transformed her writing and reshaped her life.