Every month, we celebrate our community successes. This month, Grubbies were published in literary journals across the country, won awards and prizes, secured book deals, and so much more. Our community is closing November 2024 out with twenty publications, two awards and prizes, and two book publications! Let us celebrate you: submit your good news to GrubStreet’s Department of Congratulations.

Tina Morris is happy to announce the publication of her hybrid memoir Return to the Sky. She is grateful for the editing help offered by Ethan Gilsdorf and Dorian Fox, and the encouragement of E.B. Bartels. Stephen S. Hale's article "An Ocean Walk in the Ocean State" was published in the Summer/Fall 2024 issue of the Appalachian Mountain Club's journal Appalachia. Viktoria Shulevich's humor piece "Life Advice With Animal Analogies" was published in the 11/11/24 print edition of The New Yorker Magazine. Additionally, her Halloween humor piece "Scenes From a Horror Film Made Specifically for Introverts" was published in Slackjaw Humor. Chris Looby’s short story “The Grappled Mystery of All Earth’s Ages” was selected for inclusion in Inkfish Magazine.

Instructor Tina Tocco's poem "Downstairs" was reprinted in the October 30 issue of Writing in a Woman's Voice. Anne Labouisse Dean’s debut novel Far Side of Revenge, a work of historical fiction about the tenth-century Irish prince Brian Boru, has been accepted for publication by GladEye Press. It is due out in Spring 2025. Instructor Clara Silverstein’s collection of poems Above the Fall Line will be published by Finishing Line Press. The poems reflect on history—her own, her family’s, and our country’s. She thanks her students for inspiring her with their wisdom and bravery as they write their own stories. Marcia Yudkin's hermit-crab essay, "Love Molds™ Analysis #26," was published in Does It Have Pockets.

Instructor and BWOC member Kayla Degala-Paraíso's micro-poem "I am in a red dress at Les Ambassadeurs" was recently published in the Eunoia Review. This ekphrastic poem was inspired by Edgar Degas's pastel piece "Le Café-Concert des Ambassadeurs." Brenden Layte's flash nonfiction piece "Marbled" was published by Roi Fainéant Press. Sylvia Baedorf Kassis is thrilled to share that her poem "Detritus" and related painting "Bullets 1.0" were featured in November's issue of The Wrath-Bearing Tree Literary Magazine. Pete Prokesch's flash fiction piece "My Algorithm Thinks I'm Ready to be a Father" was published in B O D Y. He thanks instructor Elena Britos for the wonderful author photo.

Incubator graduate Mallika Iyer's essay "The New Story of a Family Illness" was published in Please See Me. She would like to thank her instructors Jennifer Crystal, Ethan Gilsdorf, and all of her classmates for building her practice and confidence. Alex Thayer's debut middle-grade novel Happy & Sad & Everything True was released by Simon & Schuster on November 12. Instructor Carolyn Roy-Bornstein is thrilled to announce that her fourth book, Writing Through Burnout: How to Thrive While Working in Healthcare, will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press. She thanks Ethan Gilsdorf, who read a much earlier version of her book proposal. Angela Ahn Mouradian's short story "When I Was An Oriental" was published in the fall issue of October Hill Magazine. She thanks her writing group for their insights and support.

BWOC member and incubator graduate Thuy Phan was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Edith Wharton & Straw Dog Writers Guild Writers-in-Residence Program. Len Abram will discuss his latest book, Killer’s App, at the Belmont Library. Memoir Incubator graduate Jason Prokowiew is now represented by The Bindery Agency for his memoirs War Boys and Fat Boy Fat. He thanks Alysia Abbott for her steadying pep talks and faith in War Boys, especially.

Olga Katsovskiy published a craft essay, “The Nonfiction Trio: Writer/Narrator/Editor,” on the Brevity Blog. Current Essay Incubator student Emma Weiss was selected to perform as a featured poet at the Michael DePaola Literary Salon at the United Theater in Westerly, Rhode Island. Joey Garcia's essay “A Public Space" was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cristina Rivera Garza for the Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize and will appear in the March issue of Wasafiri magazine. Claire Berman's flash essay "Step" was published in JMWW.

Instructor and BWOC member Kayla Degala-Paraíso's short story, "The Slaughter of Wild Boars," was recently published by Penumbra Online. It was selected as a “Staff Favorite” for fiction in the Fall 2024 Issue. Yvonne Liu was selected for PEN America's Emerging Voices Workshop Los Angeles. She thanks her Advanced Memoir instructor Javier Sinay for his guidance on her memoir-in-process, I Talk to My Mother in the Clouds. Instructor and BWOC member Yu-Mei Balasingamchow has been accepted for a residency at Ucross in spring 2025. YAWP student Maria Lytrivi's short story "Cassandra," a dark reimagining of the Trojan myth, was included in The Dark Legends of The World anthology by Diania Publications. She would like to thank everyone at GrubStreet for the support she has received and instructor Kayla Degala-Paraíso for introducing her to experimental writing.

Sarah Gregorian recently published (under her pen name TH Forest) her fourth book, Foundations, which is the second book in the Appearances series. Carol R Steinberg told a story at the WGBH show Stories from the Stage on November 15th. She thanks Michelle Seaton, Alysia Abbott, and Aimee Seiff Christian for their support. John Walters's short story "Melt" is being published in the MetroWest Writer's Guild's Fiddlehead Folio in December 2024. He thanks both Sara Rauch, Colin Corrigan, and the students in “Developing Your Short Fiction” and “Advanced Revision and Submission Strategies: Fiction” classes for their help with this piece. Cat Green's poetry chapbook Without Instruction will be published late next year with JAKE.

Janay Garrick’s essay, which she worked on with instructor Ethan Gilsdorf, was recently published by Fourth Genre: “Matriarch Pink: Some Notes on Gender, Religion, and Power.” Linda Button’s essay “Why We Fight” will be included in the Pangyrus print anthology, coming in February. She is eternally indebted to Ethan Gilsdorf and her Essay Incubator family. Meredith L. King's personal essay "Blinking Lights" was published in The Rumpus. Danielle Arostegui's speculative short story "Children of the Sea" was published in Solarpunk Magazine. LaDonna Witmer’s essay "With Fear & Trembling," which she workshopped in Amy Seiff Christian's “Memoir in Progress" class, is included in a new anthology on religious trauma called Take the Fruit.