The application for GrubStreet's 2021 Emerging Writer Fellowship is now open. To meet the growing needs of our community, we’re excited to expand the number of fellowships we’re offering this year by adding a third award.

The Emerging Writer Fellowship aims to develop new, exciting voices by providing three writers per year tuition-free access to GrubStreet’s classes and Muse & the Marketplace conferences. Over the course of one year, each Emerging Writer Fellow will attend a combination of seminars and multi-week courses of their choosing, bookended by attendance at both the 2021 and the ...

Live in Egleston Square or Mattapan? We’ve partnered with the Boston Public Library to bring FREE creative writing workshops to your neighborhood virtually this spring. All classes welcome new and practicing writers! 

Upcoming Multi-Weeks:

What Shape Is Your Home? The Hermit Crab Essay with Vero Gonzalez

Ready to get your novel out into the world? If so, GrubStreet’s competitive and affordable MFA-level course is for you. Over 12 months, writers will revise their novels, study the novel form, and gain a thoughtful introduction to the publishing world.

Applications for the 2021-2022 Novel Incubator are now open! Click here to apply

Whether you’re prepping your manuscript or revising your poetry, we've got a short class for you. As always, scholarships are available for all of the offerings below: 

March 5th & 6th

Manuscript Prep: Writing a Tagline, Synopsis, Bio, and Query

The trash fire that was 2020 continues to bring frustrations and hardships. We’re also getting a little burned out from remote learning. But what if you still want to safely get together with other creative writers in some relaxed way online that doesn’t feel like school? Well, here you go.

Teens said they wanted some structure in a class that was also lowkey and flexible, so it didn’t feel like obligatory school