Happy new year, devoted blog readers! While 2017 was a total disaster in a lot of ways, it was, at least for me, a great year for books. Here's the breakdown of what I read this past year, my top
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on September 13, 2017. — Samantha Irby is the writer behind the blog bitches gotta eat and the author of Meaty: Essays (Curbside Splendor Publishing, 2013), New Year, Same Trash: Resolutions I Absolutely Did Not Keep (Vintage, 2017), and We Are
Hey, are you totally bummed you didn't get to take a class with me at GrubStreet this summer? Good thing I am teaching a whole bunch this fall. Sign up now! Contact me with any questions. —- Creative Nonfiction I Fridays, September 15 -
Are you a writer between the ages of 13-18, looking for something to do the week of August 7-11? Well, lucky you! Sign up for my GrubStreet class There's a Story in That: Making Stories from Real Life for Teens. This
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on July 12, 2017. — Scaachi Koul is a senior writer for Buzzfeed News. In addition to Buzzfeed, Koul’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The
Kicking yourself for not signing up for my class Nonfiction: Writing Family History at GrubStreet? Good news! There is still time to enroll! The class meets for 10 weeks on Thursdays from 6pm-9pm, and the new start date is Thursday, June 29,
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on June 14, 2017. — Mary Mann is the author of Yawn: Adventures in Boredom. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Smithsonian, The New York Times, The Believer, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other
Have you always wanted to write about your grandmother but aren't sure how she will react? Do you want to put your sister on blast for all the stuff she did to you as a kid? Do you want to
For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate. Published on May 15, 2017. — Sarah Dickenson Snyder is poet based in Massachusetts and Vermont. She is the author of The Human Contract (Kelsay Books, 2017) and the chapbook Notes From A Nomad (Finishing Line
If you're looking to take some fun writing classes on creative nonfiction, you're in luck! I am teaching several classes at GrubStreet this spring and summer that I will now proceed to shamelessly plug. ---- Young Adult Writing Program (YAWP): Stranger Than Fiction