Our online on-demand classes have flexible schedules, with most classes having no set meeting time, so you can learn whenever works best for you. Through weekly lessons, you will dig into dynamic craft lessons, inspiring prompts and assignments, compelling, diverse readings, helpful peer and instructor feedback, and more through our interactive and super easy-to-use platform (designed specifically for writers!), Wet Ink

Porter Square Books: Boston Edition, located on the first floor of GrubStreet's Center for Creative Writing, is open and ready to fulfill all of your book-browsing desires! Staff Picks are 20% off, so you can add to your TBR pile guilt-free. Whether you want to read about vampires that are only slightly well-behaved, one Cherokee family and the monsters they meet, or a character with the deep desire to be seen, loved and understood, PSB has a pick for you. We're located on the southeast side of 50 Liberty, facing the Marina and the ICA. …

In addition to online (Zoom and On Demand) classes below, GrubStreet will also be hosting limited in-person short classes and events at our new space in the Seaport this fall. To see the full list of all our steps in response to Covid-19, including updates about our space and events click here.

We're excited to present the latest installment in the Grubbie Debut event series, featuring Robin Mclean. Her debut novel, Pity the Beast, follows "in the footsteps of such chroniclers of American absurdity as Cormac McCarthy, Joy Williams, and Charles Portis [...] Pity the Beast is a mind-melting feminist western that pins a tale of sexual violence and vengeance to a canvas stretching back to prehistory, sideways into legend, and off into a lonesome future." Award-winning author Sabina Murray will join the author in conversation.

This hybrid event will take place in-person at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition …

Check out our FREE YAWP Saturday Sessions for fall 2022! These sessions are free for Boston-area high schoolers. Whether you need fresh ideas, a dedicated space to write, or just want to geek out about the written word with other writers, we're here for you or the teen writer in your life. Check below for more info about each of our upcoming sessions.