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

Multi-Week Classes at Grub HQ: 

• Writing the Smart Page-Turner!, Starts January 23rd
• Jumpstart Your Novel, Starts January 24th

The deadline to apply for GrubStreet’s 2020 Emerging Writer Fellowship is fast approaching on February 10th, 2020. Eson Kim, GrubStreet’s Director of Community & Youth Programs, explains why you (yes YOU) should apply today (yes TODAY). 

We're thrilled to announce that Dariel Suarez, our current Director of Core Programs and Faculty, has been promoted to Education Director.

Dariel Suarez has been a transformational leader since he joined our staff. He has recruited an incredible cohort of instructors, developed new resources and trainings, and spearheaded exciting access and inclusion initiatives

We’re thrilled to welcome author Esmé Weijun Wang as our Muse 2020 Fellow in Nonfiction, for her singular essay collection, The Collected Schizophrenias. Wang's book is lauded as "an intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness...Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the 'collected schizophrenias' but to those who wish to understand it as well."

Join Wang for an intimate discussion about her construction of The Collected Schizophrenias, her writing process, and more.

When: Saturday, April 4th, 2020, 1:45pm ...

Join us on Thursday, January 23rd for the first Tell-All Boston event of 2020 with author Calvin Hennick at Porter Square Books, featuring Sari Boren, Angie Chatman, Doris Iarovici, Amy Yelin and alumni of our Memoir Incubator and Essay Incubator programs.

In his unforgettable debut memoir Once More to the Rodeo, Calvin Hennick holds a mirror up to both himself and modern America, in an urgent and timely story that all parents, and indeed all Americans, need to read. Five years into fatherhood, Calvin Hennick is plagued by self-doubt and full of questions. How ...