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.

Writing Life Advice

What’s My Essay About? Tips from the Essay Incubator

The Essay Incubator is a 10-month intensive program for essay writers interested in drafting, revising, and publishing their work. Applications for the 2023-24 Essay Incubator are closed. Learn more about the program here.

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.

Writing Life Advice

Meeting Yourself Where You’re At: A Gentle Approach to Writing

Teaching Fellow Claudia Wilson shares the importance of meeting yourself with kindness in your writing practice.

Writing Life Advice

Getting An Agent Won’t Change Your Life

This post was originally published on Dead Darlings, a blog about novel writing run by alumni of GrubStreet's Novel Incubator program.

Writing Life Advice

What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Write

GrubStreet Instructor Katherine Yeh shares how to get writing when the blank page is daunting. You can learn more in Katherine's upcoming multi-week class, Jumpstart Your Writing, starting October 11th in-person at our Seaport location.