Join Porter Square Books and Grubstreet tonight at 7pm (EDT) in the latest installment of the Grubbie Debuts series, featuring longtime GrubStreet student, instructor, and board member Jennifer De Leon for the launch of her debut nonfiction collection, White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, and Writing

Join Regie Gibson for a virtual performance of Letter and Spirit: Here, Among the Americans, which will use poetry, spoken word, and song to explore what it means to be an American

Our Memoir Incubator Program is an MFA-level course, spanning 12 months, for ten memoir writers interested in drafting, developing or revising their memoir drafts, a comprehensive craft-based study of the memoir form, and, as appropriate, a thoughtful introduction to the memoir publishing market. 

The murder of eight people, including six women of Asian descent, on Tuesday night in Atlanta was a horrific and heartbreaking tragedy that comes at a time of increased racist and gender-based violence, hate, and anti-Asian rhetoric across the country. 

We want to acknowledge the pain of this tragic event and the ways in which this violence further adds to the suffering, anxiety, and anger that the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community across the country has felt in response to increased xenophobia, misogyny, and racism. 

The March 2021 edition of "Writing Life Essentials" is a monthly hand-curated list of contests, grants, scholarships, submissions 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