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♦ "An emotional Amanda Palmer took the stage last week at Grub Street's Muse and Marketplace Conference as part of the NEA- funded Publish it Forward series." – Amanda Palmer Video: What's A Rock Star Doing At A Writers' Conference?, The Huffington Post, May 2013
♦ "The Boston writing center Grub Street had its annual Muse & the Marketplace conference over the weekend, drawing hundreds of writers, agents, and editors to the Park Plaza for panel discussions about the publishing industry." – Muse & Marketplace conference draws crowds, The Boston Globe, May 2013
♦ "I first met Power in 2004, when she joined my master novel workshop at Grub Street, where she dazzled us with her dedication — a component as crucial to writing success as talent." – Henriette Lazaridis Power: A first-time novelist giving back, The Boston Globe, April 2013
♦ "In 2010, Grub Street transformed itself to an extent and at a pace that would probably be impossible for a college-based workshop, even one with the desire to change." – Looking Ahead, We Wanted To Be Writers, April 2013
♦ Grub Street is "perfectly positioned to serve the writing community much more effectively than traditional workshops in this era of digitization, social media, self-publishing, and e-books…. and at a price young writers (or old ones, for that matter) can afford." – Professional Practices: Part 2, We Wanted To Be Writers, April 2013
♦ "Bridburg believes that even as the industry changes, the cornerstone of publishing remains the same: a book needs to blow readers away." – The Future of Books, WGBH, March 2013
♦ "Best Booth: Grub Street's set complete with couch, table, and the always dapper Chris Castellani." – 13 Bests of AWP 2013, The Huffington Post, March 2013
♦ "Most notably, I enjoyed the good offices of the non-profit Grub Street program that overlooks the Boston Common and trains some 2,000 writers a year in Boston, it was a pleasure to be their guest and I’m continually impressed with what Eve Bridburg and her group are doing." – Ether for Authors: Looking for AWP’s Leadership, Publishing Perspectives, March 2013
♦ "We’ll continue innovating and keeping up with what writers need, pushing all of our students toward their best work, and having fun. That’s one thing I hope never changes at Grub Street: all of us, our staff, our instructors, our students, our board, we’re all having a great time." – Eve Bridburg interviewed by Derek Alger, PIF Magazine, March 2013
♦ "I’ve known Chris for fifteen years. We were two of the first teachers at Grub Street, a Boston-based writing center that Chris (as executive and now artistic director) has helped build into one of the nation’s best." – The Rumpus Interview With Christopher Castellani, The Rumpus, February 2013
♦ "That feeling of having too many options, Bridburg said, can cloud things like intent and mission, which is why Grub Street implemented Launch Lab, a program to help define success and then to figure out the best way to achieve it." – What Should Authors Do in the Digital Age?, Publishers Weekly, February 2013
♦ "This fall, Castellani turned student, as one of 16 writers with a 2013 book who beta tested a pilot program at Grub Street called Launch Lab." – Grub Street’s Castellani Practices What He Teaches, Publishers Weekly, January 2013
♦ "Grub Street hosted a 'Joyride' gala the other night at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline." – Grub Street has a ‘Joyride’ in Brookline, Boston Globe, November 2012
♦ Massachusetts Teens Publish Anthology – In Brief: November 8th, Publishers Weekly, November 2012
♦ The Gardner partners with the Grub Street writer’s program for this soiree featuring poetry, word games, and literature. – Where to find cocktails, concerts in a museum setting, The Boston Globe, October 2012
♦ Boston Public Radio's Kara Miller spoke with Eve Bridburg, executive director of Grub Street, about how marketing and sales tactics, along with the authors' responsibilities, are rapidly changing. – The Entrepreneurial Author, Boston Public Radio, August 2012
♦ "At a party this spring sponsored by Grub Street, Boston’s independent writing center, novelist Elinor Lipman and Beacon Press director Helene Atwan got more than just drinks and hors d’oeuvres." – Beacon to Publish First Tweet Book, Publishers Weekly, July 2012
♦ Press Release: Teens Get a Taste of Print-On-Demand Publishing through Boston's Grub Street
Their Anthology, One Day We Rise and We are Everywhere, to Release on October 16th
♦ Grub Street Moves Up Party - 162 Boylston Street Boston, March 30, 2012:
♦ "As a teacher at Grub Street, I have watched countless students — teenagers and seniors, tennis instructors and bartenders — find that thing on the page that they didn’t know they needed to say." – Reason To Write On, Boston Herald, June 2012
♦ "Eve Bridburg has been a literary midwife to countless books, between her work as a literary agent and as founder and director of Boston’s Grub Street, the center of Boston’s writing world." – Eve Bridburg: Grub Street and her life with stories, Boston Globe, April 2012
♦ "The folks in Boston may have found a way to cure novel-panic—and a whole new way for novelists to workshop." – A Novel Approach: Learning to Write More Than Stories, Poets & Writers, January/February 2012
♦ "All writers — from unpublished newcomers to experienced authors — are part of the gang at GRUB STREET." – Best Literary Gang 2011, The Phoenix
♦ "You should use Grub Street." – 3 Things a Young Writer Learned at Boston Book Fest, Boston.com, October 2011
♦ "Boston literary/arts center Grub Street threw a fab party at Mohr & McPherson this week to thank its many donors and friends." – Grub Street Gives Thanks, Boston.com, October 2011
♦ "The Grub Street writing center, for instance, located on the other side of Boston Common, is a thriving literary community, with dozens of workshops each year, writing space, readings, and a national spring conference that draws hundreds of agents, publishers, and writers to downtown." – Borders Leaves A Vacuum, Boston Globe, August 2011
♦ "Guiding more than 10,000 writers over the literary center’s 14 years, including everyone from untried hopefuls to award-winning novelists such as Iris Gomez and Randy Susan Meyers." – Executive Director Eve Bridburg included in The 50 Most Powerful Women in Boston, Boston Magazine, February 2011
♦ "In the world of publishing, the Grub Street writing center is the little engine that could." – Empowering Writers, Boston Globe, July 2010
♦ "We have a student who’s a lobsterman. All day he fishes for lobsters, and at night he works on his novel in our workshops." – Interview with Grub Street, Front Porch Journal, March 2010
♦ "'The organization,' said Johnston, is as vital to Boston writers as 'oxygen is to fire.'" – Novices Peek At Literary World, Boston Globe, May 2008
♦ "The obvious part of Grub Street’s two-fold mission is to get Boston writing, something the independent writing center has succeeded in doing through workshops and classes for the past 10 years." – Grub Street Names Its First Book-prize Winner, The Phoenix, February 2007
♦ "With its new downtown headquarters, Grub Street, Inc. has cemented its place at the center of literary Boston." – Putting In A Good Word, The Phoenix, October 2005
♦ "Eve Bridburg looks to grow Grub Street Writers into Boston’s literary hub." – Streetwise, The Phoenix, February 2003
♦ "Anyone who wants to write is welcome at Grub Street." – Turning Alumni into Teachers Since 1997, Bostonia, Summer 2000