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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 ...

YAWP Summer 2020 Writing Fellowship Applications are now open!

GrubStreet's Teen Summer Writing Fellowship immerses high school students in the writer's life of creative craft and publishing. During three weeks at GrubStreet, teens work with published authors on original prose and poetry, meet with literary agents and editors, take field trips to inspirational locales like the ICA, and more

From over forty-nine books publications to value engineering our new space at 50 Liberty, GrubStreet’s Founder & Executive Director, Eve Bridburg, shares GrubStreet’s highlights and new developments from 2019. 

Most Mondays of 2019 found me in our new space at 50 Liberty

In the January 2020 edition of "Best of Boston," we bring you our top Boston lit events this month, curated from the Boston Literary District's event calendar, an essential source of literary happenings.

New Voices in Fiction: Miranda Popkey presents Topics of Conversation: A Novel in conversation with Elizabeth Ames