We're excited to share that GrubStreet's Fabulist cafe was recently featured in the Arts & Culture section of GBH News. Read the full article. 

Every month, we celebrate our varied successes. This month, Grubbies were published in literary journals across the country, won awards and prizes, published books, and so much more. Our community is closing April 2023 out with forty-one publications, four fellowships, two book deals, and seven book publications! Let us celebrate you: submit your good news to GrubStreet’s Department of Congratulations

The May 2023 edition of "Writing Life Essentials" is a monthly hand-curated list of contests, grants, scholarships, submission calls, and awards. We try to prioritize opportunities that are at least one of the following: local, free to apply, and/or committed to celebrating and supporting writers from historically marginalized communities. We do the research, so you have more time for what matters: the writing. Or, doing some spring cleaning. That’s important, too.

In the May 2023 edition of "Best of Boston," we bring you our top Boston lit events this month, taking place virtually and in-person. See below for our list of local literary happenings.

Rory Power, author of In an Orchard Grown From Ash, in conversation with CL Herman

We are delighted to announce that #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang will headline our May Muse and the Marketplace Publishing Summit. The critically acclaimed author of Babel and the Poppy War trilogy enters new literary territory with her forthcoming book Yellowface (May 16). 

Kuang will be joined by two members of her HarperCollins editorial team — May Chen and Mireya Chiriboga — whose own experiences as industry professionals informed the plot of the book. Together, they will pull back the curtain on how …