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 June 2025 with thirty-one publications, three awards and prizes, one book deal, and seven book publications! Let us celebrate you: submit your good news to GrubStreet’s Department of Congratulations.

BWOC member and instructor Kayla Degala-Paraiso’s poem "The inconvenience store" was recently published in JMWW. Corine de Ruiter’s Tears for a Golden Butterfly: A Memoir of Grief and Spiritual Awakening was published on May 28, 2025, by Balboa Press- A Division of Hay House. She is very grateful for the inspiration and help she received during the "Writing the Mosaic Memoir" class with Clara Silverstein. Memoir Generator graduate Iris (Yi Youn) Kim received the 2025 Excellence in Pacific Islander Reporting award from the Asian American Journalists' Association for her piece on Indigenous Doula Trainings in Guam.

Instructor Martine Bellen’s poem "Where to Perish" has been published in the May/June edition of the online journal On the Seawall. Memoir Incubator graduate Jason Prokowiew's memoir War Boys is a 2025 Aurora Polaris Award Finalist at Trio House Press. Novel Generator graduate Christopher Reardon's debut novel, Electric Train, and fourth poetry book, Disablé, will be released on June 13, 2025.

Ten excerpts from instructor Deborah Sosin's manuscript titled "This Is 70: A Life in Micro-Memoirs" were shared in Sari Botton's Oldster Magazine. Susan Schirl Smith's essay "Becoming A Peaceful Earth Warrior" was featured in the final issue of SugarSugarSalt Magazine. BWOC member Mu-Chieh was recently commissioned to interview her sister and artist Szu-Chieh Yun, who has a show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, for TaiwaneseAmerican.org.

BWOC member Allison King's debut novel, The Phoenix Pencil Company, was published on June 3rd and was the June Pick for Reese's Book Club. Essay and Memoir Incubator graduate Linda Button's essay “The Wada Test” received the Annie Dillard Prize for Nonfiction in the Bellingham Review, judged by Lilly Dancyger. The essay was also a finalist for The Rumpus prize and the Iowa Review. Instructor Silk Jazmyne's short story "Closing Time" will be featured in Obsidian's Themed Issue, 50.2 - Activating the Archives, with a folio guest edited by Shereen Renee Thomas.

Ana Hebra Flaster’s memoir Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town recently launched and has earned several awards, including first place overall in Indie Readers Discovery Book Awards/Nonfiction. She is grateful to GrubStreet and instructor Mary Carroll Moore, who guided her in structuring the story. NmaHassan Muhammad’s poem "The Stitched Map” was recently published in the Rowayat Magazine. Additionally, he has been named a finalist for the 2025 Sundress Light Bill Incubator Microgrant. Ronald-Stéphane Gilbert's novel Conversations With My Mother, A Novel of Dementia on the Maine Coast has been released in a large-type, library-bound edition by CenterPoint Large Print.

BWOC member Ashley D'Souza was awarded a $6,000 Taylor/Blakeslee Graduate Fellowship to support their master's in science writing at MIT. Ethan Gilsdorf supported them in their graduate school and fellowship applications, and his "Writing Climate Essays and Op-Eds" class in 2023 inspired them to pursue environmental journalism. Memoir Incubator graduate Dr. Tamara MC published "Unapologetically Joyful: How My Neurodivergent Exuberance Challenges Expectations." in Motley Bloom. Globe Pequot Press has published the second edition of instructor Clara Silverstein's cookbook The Boston Chef's Table, which highlights contemporary New England recipes from the best chefs in the Boston area and the city's culinary history.

John W. Farrell’s short story “Bifurcation Points” appears in this month's issue of Dark Horses, the Magazine of Weird Fiction. He thanks GrubStreet consultant Douglas Silver for being a huge help in his revision process prior to its acceptance. Jen Hallaman's essay "Citrus Greening" was published in the June issue of Pithead Chapel. She is grateful to her friend and former GrubStreet classmate, Lynda Rushing, for her wisdom and encouragement. BWOC member Melissa A. Watkins is a 2025 Kimbilio Fellow and will be attending the writer's retreat in North Carolina this August. Mark Belsky's new book Abduction: Another Max Dent MD Adventure was released on June 6th.

Instructor Lauren Artiles is the recipient of a VSC Fellowship at Vermont Studio Center and will complete a residency in September 2025. She would like to thank her GrubStreet instructors, especially Caroline Belle Stewart, and her queer fiction writing group. Nancy Grossman's op-ed "A year after UMass’ mass arrests, the damage lingers" appeared recently on MassLive, in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, and the Greenfield Recorder. She remains grateful for the many essay and op-ed classes she took with Ethan Gilsdorf. Instructor Hunter Liguore's book The Modern Art of War: Sun Tzu's Hidden Path to Peace and Wholeness is releasing this summer in Brazilian-Portuguese as A Nova Arte Da Guerra published by Editora Rocco.

BWOC member Alexis M. Wright's lyric essay "How I Learned to Read: An Abecedarian Primer” was published in the 75th anniversary edition of the Shenandoah Literary Magazine. Marilyn Bellemore's article on the cranberry was published in Llewellyn's 2026 Herbal Almanac: A Practical Guide to Growing, Cooking & Crafting. Additionally, her article "My Aunt, My Angel" was featured in Women's World Magazine in the “My Guardian Angel” section. Lynda Rushing's essay "Harvey" will be published in the Fall 2025 print edition of River Teeth. She is grateful to Jen Hallaman for her kind support and Dorian Fox for his peerless coaching and sharp critical eye. Memoir Incubator graduate Anne Falkowski’s flash fiction “Scavengers” was a judge’s pick for the Bath Flash Fiction Prize and was published in their ninth anthology.

BWOC member and Memoir Incubator graduate Anri Wheeler published a hybrid personal essay/music review of Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter in Pangyrus. Instructor Mary Carroll Moore was featured as the June author in the “How We Spend Our Days” series, curated by novelist Cynthia Newberry Martin. The series has included writers like Steve Almond, Cheryl Strayed, and Dani Shapiro, focusing on one day in a working writer's life. Viktoria Shulevich's humor piece "My Bad, I'm a Worrier, Not a Warrior" was published in Points in Case. Memoir Incubator graduate Jason Prokowiew won the 2025 Aurora Polaris Award in Creative Nonfiction from Trio House Press for his memoir War Boys, which will be published in July 2026. He is deeply grateful for the help he's received – editorial, business, and emotional – from his fierce Memoir Incubator cohort, Alysia Abbott, Xujun Eberlein, his Grub-formed writing group members Kristin Amico and Emily May, and his extended Memoir Incubator family.

Essay Incubator graduate Brandy E. Wyant's essay "Flavors of Grief" was published in The Writing Disorder. She would like to thank the Essay Incubator alumni community for their encouragement and editing support. Jen Hallaman's poem "We Are Dancing at Someone Else's Wedding" was published in the Tinderbox Poetry Journal. NmaHassan Muhammad has been selected for the 2025 Imodoye Writers Residency, where he will be completing a chapbook collection of flash stories. Jude Jones’ satirical paper on stress and tenure in academia was published in The Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology. Elizabeth Brodbine Ghoniem recently published her flash fiction piece "A Funeral for My Past" in Scars: An Anthology (Beyond Words Press). Additionally, Elizabeth published her essay "Third Time's A Charm" on survivingbreastcancer.org and their newsletter.