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The Manuscript Mart at the Muse & the Marketplace 2023 is an opportunity for writers to have a 20-minute meeting with an established literary agent or editor who has read the writer's first FIVE (5) pages in advance (along with an optional, highly encouraged query letter and/or synopsis) and can provide feedback from an industry perspective on a one-to-one video call during the May and/or July Summits.

Twenty-minute, one-to-one video call sessions will be scheduled 1:00–6:00 PM EDT on May 18, 19, & 21 (May …

Check out our FREE YAWP Saturday Sessions for Spring 2023! These sessions are free for Boston-area high schoolers. Whether you need fresh ideas, a dedicated space to write, or just want to geek out about the written word with other writers, we're here for you or the teen writer in your life. Check below for more info about each of our upcoming sessions. 

Come party with GrubStreet this summer in one of our *seventy-seven* new multi-week classes! BYOP (bring your own pen).

Cut loose (and get writing) with brand new online and in-person Summer 2023 multi-week classes, including Camp Camp: Summer LGBTQ+ Writing Group with Lauren Artiles, There's Only One Bed: Writing Romance with Marcella Haddad, The Art of Live Storytelling with Javed Razayee, and so much more.

Whether you join us online via Zoom or in-person at our Center for Creative Writing, we can't wait to write with you.

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The Memoir Incubator is a competitive and affordable 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.

PSB: Boston Edition and GrubStreet are delighted to present the launch of The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly, the new novel from Katherine Sherbrooke. Rachel Barenbaum will join the author in conversation, and Katherine will be joined onstage for a special performance by Madigan Linnane, a Berklee College of Music student who has composed original music and lyrics to bring to life two fictional songs that appear in the novel