programs

The Memoir Project

Launched in 2006 in collaboration with the City of Boston, the Memoir Project creates educational and personal enrichment opportunities for seniors by bringing them together to work with Grub Street instructors on stories of personal and historical significance. The program has reached hundreds of seniors in the Boston area, produced three anthologies, and is heading to Nantucket in the fall of 2010.

Young Adult Writers Program

Grub Street throws open its doors one Saturday each month, offering FREE creative writing workshops to Boston-area teenagers, ages 14 to 18. Learn more.

Summer Teen Fellowship

Our Summer Teen Writing Fellowship immerses high school students in the writer's life of creative craft and publishing. Our summer fellows work with published authors on original prose and poetry, meet with literary agents and editors, take field trips to inspirational locales like the ICA, and much more.

National Book Prize

Grub Street awards writing of great literary merit through our National Book Prize. Three times a year, we recognize a writer outside of New England who is publishing his or her second, third, fourth (or beyond...) book. Winners receive an honorarium, a reading and book party in Boston, and the opportunity to lecture here at Grub Street.