Join us in celebrating the commendable community success stories this March! Grubbies were published in literary journals across the country, won awards and prizes, secured book deals, and so much more. Our community is closing March 2025 with twenty-seven publications, two awards and prizes, two book deals, and eight book publications! Let us celebrate you: submit your good news to GrubStreet’s Department of Congratulations.

Kate Woodworth’s novel Little Great Island, a story of love, community, and climate change on an island off the coast of Maine, launches May 6 and is available for pre-order. She offers a huge thank you to Jenna Blum and the members of her workshop. BWOC member Ashley D'Souza was accepted into MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing and will begin their Master's this fall. They were encouraged to pursue science writing and environmental journalism by Ethan Gilsdorf's "Write Climate Essays and Op-Eds" class. Jenny Moye’s essay “Letting Go: The History of New York City” was published in Pangyrus. She thanks Nora Corrigan for her amazing instruction and support and fellow classmates for their feedback in the class "Introduction to the Personal Essay."

LGBTQ+ Novel Writing Immersive graduate Nailah Mathews’s debut chapbook and Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands, is available for pre-order from Newfound. BWOC member and Incubator graduate Thuy Phan was selected to participate in the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at UMass Amherst for nonfiction with author T Kira Māhealani Madden. Essay Incubator instructor Ethan Gilsdorf will be a featured performer at Mortified Live on March 21st and has published the craft essay,"Entering the Fourth Dimension: The Importance of Reflection" in the Brevity Blog. B. B. Garin's flash fiction piece "Frozen In Neverland" was published by The Ghost City Review. An early version of this story was workshopped in KL Pereria's “6 Weeks, 6 Stories” class.

Emily May's debut book of essays, Some Girls comes out this month from Galileo Press. It includes essays written and revised in classes led by Ethan Gilsdorf, Xujun Eberlein, and Shuchi Saraswat. Instructor Nicole Galland’s ninth novel, Boy, is now available from William Morrow. The novel is "a vibrant and thought-provoking tale of love, political intrigue, and gender-swapping set in the theatre world of Elizabethan London." Amanda Rotondo has a feature article coming out in the May/June issue of The American Gardener, the magazine of the American Horticultural Society. Additionally, her first book, a collection of historical stories about Massachusetts towns with hard-to-pronounce names, comes out April 22 with Arcadia Press.

Novel Incubator and Novel Generator alum Juliet Faithfull is thrilled to announce that her debut novel Liar's Dice has been sold at auction to Sara Birmingham at Thousand Voices and Melanie Tutino at Doubleday Canada. It will be published in spring 2026. She would like to thank GrubStreet, Annie Hartnett, Michelle Hoover and the Year 9 class for their amazing wisdom and support! Instructor E.B. Bartels is excited to share that her narrative nonfiction book Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter will be published in paperback in November. E.B. wants to thank all of her friends in the GrubStreet community (especially the Shay's gang) for their ongoing support.

Kyla-Yến Huỳnh Giffin's essay "Ngoại and the Coral Reef," written and revised during Theresa Okokon's "Intro to the Personal Essay" course, was published in The Offing. Olga Katsovskiy’s “Reflections on the AWP Conference: Evidence of Us” was published in the Brevity Blog. Russell Dupont’s latest book, Jazz at the Point, was released earlier this month. Kimberly Crow’s short fiction “The Chaperone” was featured in the March issue of Flash Fiction Online.

Jen Shepherd's essay "The Last Beautiful Day" will appear in The Rumpus' ENOUGH column on May 13th. Jen thanks instructor Katie Bannon for her brilliant and inspirational boot camps and workshops. Memoir Generator graduate Iris (Yi Youn) Kim had her essay, "They Tried to Take My Words. I Fought to Get Them Back," published in Memoir Land / Literary Liberation. Calla Jacobson is delighted to share that her personal essay, “Hills, Birds, Bones,” has been published in this spring’s issue of Colorado Review. She benefitted from Katie Bannon’s “Memoir Revision Essentials” class on endings.

Instructor Kelly Dalke was awarded a 2025 Luso-American Fellowship with The DISQUIET Literary Program. Maggie Huff-Rousselle published a short essay, "Take This Waltz," in Lyrics as Poetry, a print journal that publishes song lyrics and prose pieces on lyrics. Grace Massey is delighted to announce that her chapbook, A Future with Bromeliads, has been published by River Glass Books. She is immensely grateful to GrubStreet Advanced Poetry instructors Carolyn Zaikowski and Tatiana Johnson-Boria for their wisdom and inspiration.

Essay Incubator instructor Ethan Gilsdorf published "Stay a Little Bit Longer: The Art of Zooming In and Lingering" in the Brevity Blog. Steffi Gauguet’s essay “Stories We Tell Ourselves, or Narratives We Take for Truths” was published in MicroLit. She thanks Colin Corrigan for his essay class, which inspired her to write essays in the first place, and Cat Parnell for her help with this piece. Essay Incubator graduate Andi Brown recently won the Moth Grand Slam at The Huntington Theatre. He is grateful for the feedback from Ethan Gilsdorf and other Incubator students who helped him craft his story.

Novel Incubator graduate Rachel Barenbaum’s podcast Check This Out that airs on NHPR just announced that Season 4 will kick off with a brand new partnership with the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. It features one hour interviews with emerging and diverse authors. Instructor Ethan Gilsdorf was featured in the news story “Students take a page from bestselling authors: All-Day Audible with Authors returns to Portsmouth Middle School,” published by the East BayRI / Portsmouth Times. Ellen Cliggott made her podcast debut with a flash nonfiction essay featured on This Old Tree.

Memoir Incubator graduate Jason Prokowiew was awarded the Norma Watkins Scholarship to attend the 2025 Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference where he'll participate in the Master Class with Byron Aspaas. Rob McKean has been awarded a Massachusetts Grant for Creative Individuals. He thanks the Mass Arts Council for their recognition and he credits GrubStreet for continued inspiration. Yvette DeChavez's short story "Saint Gloria" appears in the spring issue of American Short Fiction. She workshopped the piece in Naphisa Senanarong's Advanced Fiction Workshop.

Barbara Felton's flash nonfiction essay "Final Cut" will be published in the spring 2025 issue of Welter, the University of Baltimore's Literary Magazine. She is grateful to her writing group which grew out of Ethan Gilsdorf's class on the personal essay. Cathy Wang is featured in Issue 43 of KHÔRA. Her piece "The Shape of Hope" is published under her pen name "Cathy Lue-W." She continues to draw from the lessons and inspiration from her time with instructor Colwill Brown.