GrubStreet's Teen Summer Writing Fellowship immerses high school students in the writer's life of creative craft and publishing. During three weeks at GrubStreet, teens work with published authors and meet with literary agents and editors, take field trips to inspirational locales like the ICA, and more.

Check out our FREE YAWP Saturday Sessions for Spring 2023! These sessions are free for Boston-area high schoolers. Whether you need fresh ideas, a dedicated space to write, or just want to geek out about the written word with other writers, we're here for you or the teen writer in your life. Check below for more info about each of our upcoming sessions. 

Check out our FREE YAWP Saturday Sessions for fall 2022! These sessions are free for Boston-area high schoolers. Whether you need fresh ideas, a dedicated space to write, or just want to geek out about the written word with other writers, we're here for you or the teen writer in your life. Check below for more info about each of our upcoming sessions. 

This summer, we're excited to host a mix of online and in-person classes so you can write with fellow teens virtually, in-person at our Center for Creative Writing, or both! Take a look below to see all of our summer classes. As always, scholarships are available for every single class below and are super easy to apply for.

August 8th through August 12th, 10:30am-3:30pm ET

• A Week of Short Stories (Immersive) with Olivia Kate Cerrone (In-Person: Seaport)
• A Week of Horror! with Peter Medeiros (In-Person: Seaport)
• A Week of Poetry …

YAWP Summer starts on June 27th! In celebration of summer vacation, our teen writers share the books that are lighting up their minds.

Whether you're in the mood for an epistolary novel taking place during a time war, a memoir exploring grief and heritage, or green toilet plunger-shaped aliens and WWII, there's a read for you! And if you're itching to read one of these teen picks, you can always grab a copy from our partners at Porter Square Books: Boston Edition.

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and …