GrubStreet’s Community & Neighborhood Programs offer FREE custom classes to community partners. Below is a list of classes that are FREE and open to the public through our Grub @ BPL Program offered in partnership with the Boston Public Library Branches in Mattapan, Grove Hall, and more:
Grub @ The BPL (Adams Street): Memoir Workshop
Mondays, 2-4pm (6/9, 6/16, 6/23, 6/30)
Grub @ The BPL (Charlestown): Strategies for Telling Your Life Story
Thursdays, 2-4pm (7/3, 7/10, 7/17, 7/24)
Grub @ The BPL (Codman Square): Ask A Writer: Poetry Drop-in Office Hours
Mondays, 6:00-7:30PM (7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28)
Grub @ The BPL (Lower Mills): From the Personal to Universal: Personal Essay Workshop
Wednesdays, 10:30am-12:30pm (7/9, 7/16, 7/23, 7/30, 8/6, 8/13)
Grub @ The BPL (Connolly): Planting Your Story's Seeds: Fiction Workshop for Beginners
Saturdays, 2-4pm (7/12, 7/19, 7/26, 8/2)
Grub @ The BPL (East Boston): Finding Your Writer's Voice: Poetry Workshops
Saturdays, 1-3pm (7/19, 7/26, 8/2, 8/9)
Grub @ The BPL (East Boston) Intro to Book Publishing
Saturday, 9-11am on 7/19
Grub @ The BPL (Mattapan): Strange Realms: Sci-Fi + Fantasy Writing Basics
Mondays, 12-2pm (8/4, 8/11, 8/18, 8/25)
Grub @ The BPL (East Boston) Intro to Book Publishing
Saturday, 9-11am on 8/23
Grub @ The BPL (Faneuil): Shaping Memory into Story: Memoir Writing Workshop
Saturdays, 10am-12pm (9/6, 9/13, 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18; Note: NO CLASS 9/20)
Grub @ The BPL Writing about your life / Escribir tu vida / 真实故事
Saturdays, 2-4pm (9/13, 9/20, 9/27, 10/4)
If your community organization would like to request direct creative writing program support, please reach out to our Programs team at [email protected]. Our small staff usually responds to partnership inquiries within two to four weeks. Even if we don’t have immediate capacity to start new partnerships immediately, it helps to organize requests so we can plan our budgets and scheduling for future years.