Author Spencer Wise on the importance of getting lost in your writing and how not to squelch the vital energy of your work.  

Last month I found myself teaching a session at GrubStreet where I’d taken my first ever fiction workshop almost two decades earlier

Do you work downtown and want to fit some writing into your day? Or do you have a schedule that gives you free afternoons instead of evenings? Join our FREE Brown Bag Lunch Writing Series.

Bring your lunch and come on over to GrubStreet on Wednesday, May 22nd, from 12:30pm-1:15pm. For 45 minutes, you’ll meet fellow writers and get your creative juices flowing with some cool writing exercises

Don't miss out, here's everything happening this week at Grub:

Multi-Week Classes:

• 6 Weeks, 6 Essays, Starting May 16th
• 6 Weeks, 6 Stories, Starting May 16th
• Memoir in Progress, Starting May 16th
• Creative Nonfiction I, Starting May 19th

Events:

• Boston Writers of Color: Local Editors of Color Panel, May 15th

Short Classes at Grub HQ:

• Op-Ed Crash Course: How to Pitch and Publish Socially Charged Essays, May 17th

• Unlocking the Story: Character Intensive, May 17th

• Befriend Your Inner Critic, May 17th

• Marketing For Writers -- Whether You're Published or Not, May 18th

• Novel Revision Series: Dramatic Structure & ...

GrubStreet Instructor, Ben Berman, discusses how we must learn to shift between different mindsets throughout the writing process.

My five-year-old is obsessed with Kung Fu Panda – though the scratches all over my neck are not from her best impersonation of Tigress but because every time we try to watch the movie she gets so scared that she clutches onto me for dear life.

We always knew the GrubStreet community was bursting with talent, but the stars have recently aligned to bring more book publications between 2018 and 2019 than ever before from students, instructors, staff and other members of the community. That’s why they’re keeping a running list and celebrating by curating a series of conversations between Grubbie authors with new books