Let's celebrate the commendable community success stories from this October! Grubbies were published in literary journals across the country, won awards and prizes, and so much more. Our community is closing October 2024 with forty-three publications, four awards and prizes, and seven book publications. Let us celebrate you: submit your good news to GrubStreet’s Department of Congratulations.

Memoir incubator graduate Jason Prokowiew's essay "Don't Listen to Anybody" was published on the Brevity Blog. Additionally, his essay "Why We Stole" was published in the fall issue of the North American Review. He thanks his GrubStreet-formed writing group for helping him get it there. Teri Stein’s essay “Penumbra” was published by The Sun. She is grateful to Ethan Gilsdorf for opening up the possibilities of what an essay could look like, and for the creative freedom that gave her as a writer. Olga Katsovskiy's “Kinder Surprise" was nominated for Best of Net in Creative Nonfiction by Pithead Chapel.

Elly Berke's children's book Listen, Wonder, Ask is now available. The story follows the curiosity of a young girl as she learns about the languages and customs of her neighbors from Bangladesh, Iraq, Somalia, and China. Her success would not have been possible without the expert coaching, guidance, and editing of her coaches Jenn De Leon and Joy Baglia. Novel Generator graduate Sophia Carroll's creative nonfiction piece "Wolf Hollow in February" was published in SmokeLong Quarterly. She would like to thank her Novel Generator classmates for their support. "The Summer Sauce," an excerpt from Sara Rauch's longer coming-of-age narrative was published in Issue 15 of The Spectacle.

Vicki Boyd's poem "Phone Call from a Brown Son" will be published by One Art in its October 26 issue. She drafted this poem in Angela Siew's "6 Weeks, 3 Poems" class and gives a big shout-out to Angela and GrubStreet instructors Sara Rivera and Carolyn Zaikowski for their guidance and support. Neal Burnham's Boston Calling, a work of auto-fiction about the immigrant experience to Boston from an expat boomer POV, is out and available on Amazon. He thanks GrubsStreet for inspiring him to complete and self-publish it. Recent Essay Incubator graduate Andi Brown won his second Moth StorySlam. He feels instruction from Ethan Gilsdorf taught him how to craft the type of tight narrative needed for storytelling.

Multidisciplinary artist and GrubStreet's Director of Development, Mariona Lloreta, has been awarded the City of Boston's Wake Up the Night grant. She invites the GrubStreet community to ALTARS, The Live Experience, an evening of multidisciplinary performances in music, poetry, dance, and film by Boston-based artists, happening on Friday, November 15th, 7:00-9:00pm at Hibernian Hall. Teju Adegoke’s personal essay was published in the Boston Globe. She credits Ethan Gilsdorf’s workshops with helping her build her confidence to submit her work. Novel Generator graduate Claire Berman's essay "A Love Story All the Same" appeared in Bellevue Literary Review this month. She thanks instructors Annie Hartnett, Theresa Okokon, her Advanced Essay Workshop classmates, and her writing group for their support.

Instructor and BWOC member Yu-Mei Balasingamchow's debut novel, Names Have Been Changed, will be published in 2026, by Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. She thanks her students and colleagues for their support and encouragement. Olga Katsovskiy's craft essay "Moth-Style Storytelling and Creative Nonfiction: Driving Directions and Polaroids" was published on the Brevity Blog. The short story “The Long Road Down to the Very Beginning” by B. B. Garin was published by The Westchester Review.

BWOC member and fantasy writer Aislyn Fair’s first chapter of her novel, Wingdust, has been published in Embark Literary Journal. Anne Labouisse Dean’s historical novel, Far Side of Revenge: Brian Boru, Future King of Ireland, will be published by GladEye Press in April, 2025. She is grateful for the help from historical novel classes taught by Olivia Cerrone and Cam Terwilliger and the feedback from numerous agents at past Muse conferences. Andrea Caswell's interview with Sven Birkerts on his new book about writing has been published by Cleaver Magazine. She'd like to thank instructor Cat Parnell for her assistance and encouragement.

Meredith Wilshere's nonfiction essay “Find My Friends Changed My Friendships” was published in PS. She is grateful for the support from her instructors and classmates. Memoir Incubator graduate Jason Prokowiew received an Honorable Mention in the Winning Writers' Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest for his essay "The Demulcent of Shame," originally published by Roxane Gay. Pete Prokesch's flash-fiction story "How to Save a Marriage" was published by Free Flash Fiction. He wants to thank his friend and artist Marcus Renninger for the wonderful illustration. Instructor Tina Tocco's poem “Grace Evangelical” has been reprinted in The Orchards Poetry Journal.

Instructor and BWOC member Yasmine Ameli was recently featured in Poetry for her essay "More Than a Failed Essay: On the Prose Poem" and poems "Bedtime Story (1)”, "Bedtime Story (2)", and "Bedtime Story (4)". Linda Sanders’s essay "Cycling Through the Passage of Time" was published in The Vineyard Gazette on October 11. She would like to thank Ethan Gilsdorf for his feedback and encouragement. Jean Iversen’s personal essay "A Bungalow of My Own" was published on October 10 in Belt Magazine, an online publication about the Rust Belt and greater Midwest. She thanks Monica Benevides, who supported this work in her Advanced Personal Essay course.

Viktoria Shulevich's humor piece "Announcing My Seasonal Transition to Fairweather Friend" was published in Points in Case. Fantasy author Sarah Hills McGowan's short story "Seven Months Away" will be published in the December 2024 edition of Gramarye, the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction's journal. Instructor and Muse & the Marketplace Teaching Scholar Allison Pottern Hoch’s absurdist, paranormal short story "Cryptid Car Rental" was published in the inaugural issue of Trollbreath Magazine. Additionally, she has co-published a story in the collection New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention. Instructor and manuscript consultant Cara Benson's essay "How To Use This Book" is now online at Orion Magazine.

Instructor Holly Thompson's biographical picture book Listening to Trees: George Nakashima, Woodworker was recently published by Neal Porter Books/Holiday House. Holly’s so grateful for the picture book courses she teaches at Grub and the Grub community that always inspires and keeps her honing her craft. James English's short story "City Clothes" was published in issue #42 of Post Road. He wishes to thank his many GrubStreet instructors, especially Katrin Schumann. Instructor Shuchi Saraswat's essay "Sink & Mirror" was recently published in the fall issue of Ploughshares. Additionally, her essay "Unidentified, Woman" published in Michigan Quarterly Review, is listed as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2024. Essay Incubator instructor Ethan Gilsdorf appeared on the Choiceology podcast in the episode "A Hero's Journey". He also published his essay "D&D turns 50 this year. Gather round the Dungeon Master's table" in WBUR's Cognoscenti and WBUR featured an interview with him.

Instructor Randy Susan Meyers's sixth novel, The Many Mothers of Ivy Puddingstone, launches 10/29. Booklist wrote, “With realistic, hard-hitting prose and a well-researched and startling setting, Meyers delivers another deeply felt, beautiful novel. “ Viktoria Shulevich's humor piece "An Open Letter to Aurora Borealis By Someone Who Didn’t See It and Definitely Doesn’t Have FOMO" was published in Belladonna Comedy. “Dried Out” a short story by incubator graduate, Rebecca Miller, has been published in the fall issue of The Southern Review. She thanks Short Story Incubator instructor Ron MacLean and the “Oblivious Wolves” (her amazing writing colleagues). Mimi Manyin's flash fiction "Hug Me" was published in Fractured Lit (2024 Anthology Prize Winner). Alexandra Grabbe published “After 3 Decades Of Marriage, My Husband Chose To Move Overseas. What Happens To Us Now?” in the HuffPost. She pitched them four times before hitting a homer.

Novel Incubator graduate Hesse Phillips's novel Lightborne debuted on October 22nd with Pegasus Books. They'd like to give a special shout-out to Novel Incubator instructor Michelle Hoover and the ever-growing incubee community for all their support over the years. Edward Anthony Iannuccilli will be inducted into the Rhode Island Italian-American Hall of Fame because of his writings about his Italian-American heritage. "Training Bras to Hot Flashes: Judy Blume's Timeless Wisdom on Faith and Growing Up" by Tamara MC examines Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret through the lens of her interfaith upbringing. She thanks Anri Wheeler for publishing this essay in Pangyrus. Jeffrey M. Feingold’s short story “Every Woman on the Planet” will be published by Witcraft on 11/1, and his story “Hooters” will be published by Bull in November/December. He was the featured guest on the October 21 podcast, Creative Peacemeal. Also, his forthcoming collection of short stories, A Fine Madness, won the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the short story anthology category.

BWOC member Alissa Lee's debut novel, With Friends Like These, will be published by Emily Bestler Books/Simon & Schuster in 2025. She thanks Henriette Lazaridis, Carinn Jade, and the other members of her "Advanced Novel Planning" class for their wisdom and encouragement. Instructor Mary Carroll Moore's second novel, A Woman's Guide to Search & Rescue, was just named a finalist in the 2024 American Book Fest "Best Book" Awards. The novel was also a finalist in the Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award and the National Indie Book Award, and won a Silver Medal in the 2024 Readers' Favorite awards. Eryn Sunnolia's flash creative nonfiction piece “Substitute” was recently published by Vast Chasm Magazine.

BWOC member Ashley D'Souza's environmental news story, "How Brookline is using new science to try to save its beech trees," was published in Brookline News, accompanied by their own nature photography. Ashley is thankful for instructor Ethan Gilsdorf and their classmates in “Writing Climate Essays and Op-Eds” for helping them get started with environmental journalism. Additionally, two of their poems, "Flowers" and "Mass," were published in Volume IX: Urban Elegy, the Writers Without Margins 2024 Literary Journal. Instructor Joy Baglio's short story "Frog Heart" was published in the summer 2024 issue of Ploughshares, which was guest edited by Rebecca Makkai.

Instructor and screenwriting consultant Cheryl Eagan-Donovan published her essay "Music and Lyrics by E.O." in the September 2024 issue of the peer-reviewed journal, The Oxfordian. The article explores the work of Edward de Vere, writing under the pseudonym Shakespeare. Dr. Mary Anderson's book The Happy High Achiever: 8 Essentials to Overcome Anxiety, Manage Stress, and Energize Yourself for Success––Without Losing Your Edge was published by Hachette Book Group. She is grateful to GrubStreet instructor Ethan Gilsdorf for all of his instruction, thoughtful insights, and generous support on her book journey. Len Abram's fourth novel, Killers App, has been published, the third in a series featuring Boston PD detectives Ben Schwartz and Al Di Natale.