Congratulations to all the Grubbies who were published in literary journals across the country, won awards and prizes, secured book deals, and so much more. Our community is closing August 2025 with sixteen publications, three awards and prizes, and four book publications! Let us celebrate you: submit your good news to GrubStreet’s Department of Congratulations.

Carol Marks Stopforth's essay "Running with Eunice" was published in HerStry's Redemption Series. She would like to thank instructor Katie Bannon for her extraordinary teaching and coaching, and Jen Shepherd and Sana Fayyaz – her writing "buddies" for their support. BWOC member Amit Shah is launching his essay collection, Revisiting the Mines: Essays and Excavations. Amit developed many of the essays in classes with Samantha Shanley at GrubStreet.

Callie Jennings has a broadside out from Meow Meow Pow Pow and would like to thank the folks in Black Pruitt's Advanced Poetry Workshop for their help! NmaHassan Muhammad has been shortlisted for the Prism International’s Grouse Grind Lit Prize for V. Short Forms 2025. The micro story is a reworked scene from a longer story he workshopped at GrubStreet’s Short Story Workshop for BIPOC Writers and Oxbelly Fiction Writer's Retreat. He'd like to thank his GrubStreet instructor, AJ Rodriguez, and classmates for their insightful feedback.

Essay Incubator graduate Mathilde Piton's essay "How I fell in love with my e-bike" was published in WBUR's Cognoscenti on August 13th. She would like to thank Christina Ganim and Randi Stern from her Essay Incubator cohort for their feedback and encouragement on this piece. Crime fiction author A. D. Metcalfe has released the latest in her series of books, Street Brotherhood-Rise of the Underground. Metcalfe credits a "Novel in Progress" course led by Henriette Lazaridis as having been instrumental in her writing process.

Instructor Tim Weed's essay "Messengers of the Eternal: Trees in Life & Literature" was published in The Revelator. Poet and novelist Beth Brown Preston has published her third collection of poetry, Oxygen II, by Aquarius Press/Willow Books (2025). Memoir Incubator graduate Jason Prokowiew's "It's All Gone," an excerpt from his memoir War Boys, won first place in the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference Writing Contest (Memoir Category), judged by Greg Mania. The excerpt will be published in the Noyo Review.

Jean Hey recently signed a book deal with Red Hen Press to publish her debut novel, Shadows Under the Thorn Tree. Viktoria Shulevich’s humor piece “Don’t Judge My Book by Its Cover” was published in McSweeney’s. Additionally, her humor piece “I’m Totally Comfortable With This Awkward Silence” was published in Points in Case. Christine Eskilson’s short story “Missing Rachel” appears in the Summer 2025 issue of Guilty Crime Story Magazine.

Alison Goldberg’s new picture book, The Remembering Candle, was released in August from Barefoot Books. Instructor Lyzette Wanzer has been named a winner in the Poetry category of the San Francisco Foundation/ Nomadic Press Literary Awards. The awards provide $2,500 per recipient for outstanding work in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Each winner was selected not only for the power of their craft but for their urgent contributions to culture, justice, and community.

Short Story Incubator graduate Janice Furlong’s short story “The Natural” was published in Pangyrus (August 2025). She sends thanks to Short Story Incubator instructor Ron MacLean and writing group members Ann Russell, Stephanie Erber, Fran Cronin, Daniel Motsinger, and Daniel Cohen for their incisive feedback and encouragement.

BWOC member Jim Washington's poem "I'm from a Time " will be included in the anthology The Book of Jobs: Poems About Work edited by Erin Murphy. His poem is a tribute to Black female elevator operators who worked in downtown Boston's old-school department stores. The anthology will be soft launched on One Art on September 1st, subsequently to be published by Penn State University Libraries Open Publishing in 2026.