ARCHIVE FOR Eve Bridburg

GrubStreet’s annual gala Lit Up is going virtual this year on Wednesday, October 7th from 7:30pm - 8:15pm. Join best-selling author and Grubby Award Winner Celeste Ng and comedian Bethany Van Delft to help amplify the stories and voices of Black writers and writers of color in Boston. Tickets for this year's online literary fundraiser will be on a "pay what you will" basis and are available here. 

When I was a literary agent, it was unusual to meet editors who didn’t fit into all of the following categories: white, straight, middle or upper-middle class, ivy league-educated, and raised on either the ...

To help keep our spirits up and our words flowing, we're sharing special videos from GrubStreet's past. In this post, GrubStreet's Founder and Executive Director Eve Bridburg introduces Amanda Palmer's "Publish It Forward" talk from 2013. In addition to her talk, Palmer also performed two lovely songs for us that evening: "Ukulele Song" and “The Thing About Things."

Dear Fellow Grubbies,
 
I’m writing with an important update about GrubStreet’s headquarters at 162 Boylston Street. As most of you know, we are currently in the process of building a new home in the Seaport. We had been hoping to stay at 162 Boylston until our new creative writing center is complete. However, we have recently learned that the owners of 162 Boylston Street are planning to sell the building and are therefore no longer open to extending our lease on a month-to-month basis beyond June. 

In anticipation of our move later this year, GrubStreet’s Founder and Executive Director Eve Bridburg shares an exciting update about GrubStreet’s new look and feel, including our new logo and color. 

For the inaugural Business of Books blog post, GrubStreet’s Founder and Executive Director Eve Bridburg talks to publishing expert Kristen McLean about the fate of physical books, the future of audiobooks and podcasts, and most importantly what this all means for writers like you.