GrubStreet and GrubStreet’s Memoir Incubator Program invite you to attend the launch of TELL-ALL, the first Boston literary series devoted to all things memoir. The event features readings from Joan Wickersham, award-winning author of “The Suicide Index”; and emerging local writers Deborah Schifter, Beyazmin Jimenez, Angie Chatman, and Norman Belanger.
This event is free and open to the public.
Join the Boston Writers of Color for our August social! We welcome novelists, screenwriters, poets, essayists, bloggers, and even those who are new to writing. Meet new friends, relax and unwind with a drink and some writerly conversation!
First drink is on GrubStreet! No tickets required.
To become a member of the Boston Writers of Color community on Facebook, visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/550348355148320/.
As a young, queer woman, CATHERINE GUTHRIE had worked hard to feel at home in her body. However, after years writing about women’s health and breast cancer, Guthrie is thrust into the role of the patient after a devastating diagnosis at age thirty-eight. At least, she thinks, I know how to fight this.
She was wrong. In one horrifying moment after another, everything that could go wrong does–the surgeon gives her a double mastectomy but misses the cancerous lump, one of the most effective drug treatments fails, and a doctor’s error unleashes millions of breast cancer cells into her body.
Flat is Guthrie’s story of how two bouts of breast cancer shook her faith in her body, her relationship, and medicine. Along the way, she challenges the view that breasts are essential to femininity and paramount to a woman’s happiness. Ultimately, she traces an intimate portrayal of how cancer reshapes her relationship with Mary, her partner, revealing–in the midst of crisis–a love story.
Filled with candor, vulnerability, and resilience, Guthrie upends the “pink ribbon” narrative in unconventional ways and offers up a unique perspective on womanhood, what it means to be “whole,” and the importance of women advocating for their desires. Flat is a story of how she lost, and then found, the courage to listen to her body.
Catherine Guthrie is an award-winning women’s health journalist. For the past twenty years, her reporting, essays, and criticism have appeared in dozens of national magazines including Time; O, The Oprah Magazine; Slate; Prevention; and Yoga Journal. She has faced breast cancer twice. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.
Love to write but don’t have anywhere to get feedback on your work? Want to meet fellow writers and work under the guidance of published authors? GrubStreet is here to help!
Drop by our Open House on Wednesday, August 22nd for drinks, snacks, and the answers to your questions about all things GrubStreet. New or future grubbies can get to know Grub HQ, hear about upcoming Fall classes, and mingle with fellow students and writers. Grub staff members will be on hand to discuss your writing goals and recommend classes that are right for you, plus we have special class discounts for all attendees.
Not only that, but current Grubbies will read from their work in our Student Showcase! Come with any questions between 5:30 and 6:55pm. Reading starts at 7:00pm.
Poets and writers from Write Down the Street creative writing classes will read fiction, poetry, and memoir from many experiences and perspectives. Readers include Lloyd Sheldon Johnson, Marjorie Saintil-Belizaire, Carmen-Isabel Belizaire, Zachary Saintil-Belizaire, Carolyn Jackson, and more!
Write Down the Street / Autores a la Vuelta is a partnership between GrubStreet, one of the nation’s largest literary arts centers, and Boston Public Library. These workshops create space for writing and discussion in English, Spanish, Haitian Creole and everything in between, with free creative writing classes at the Egleston Square, Mattapan, and East Boston library branches.
Boston-based writer and storyteller and GrubStreet instructor JUDAH LEBLANG presents the premiere of his one-man show “It’s Now or Never” on Thursday evening June 21, 7:30 pm at Turtle Studios, 213 California Street in Newton. This is a special preview before he takes it on the road to fringe festivals in Canada. The show is a (mostly) humorous look at getting older, living a creative life, and dealing with times when ‘man planned, and God laughed.’ The show grew out of his memoir, “Finding My Place.” Copies of the book ($15) will be on sale at the event.
Thinking of applying to the Novel Generator? GrubStreet will host an informal Q&A session with instructor ANNIE HARNETT on Wednesday, June 27th, 6:30-7:30 p.m., here at GrubStreet HQ, to answer any questions you have about the Generator, including the workload, the application process, what the program does and doesn’t entail, the schedule, the philosophy behind our approach, and anything else you have on your mind. No need to register, just show up!
Thinking of applying to the Memoir Generator? GrubStreet will host an informal Q&A session with instructor MICHELLE SEATON on Thursday, July 12th, 6:00-7:00 p.m., here at GrubStreet HQ, to answer any questions you have about the Generator, including the workload, the application process, what the program does and doesn’t entail, the schedule, the philosophy behind our approach, and anything else you have on your mind.
Are you ready to share your writing–live? While spoken word artists write in a tradition that is oral, musical, performative, AND literary, what about performing our stories, essays, and poems that were written primarily for the page? How can we amp up the potential of the literary reading to connect with audiences and bring new dimensions to our work? We’ll talk about how to select material to read aloud, timing, pacing, projection, and eye contact. We’ll also look at examples of poets and writers who are compelling performers and have introduced elements of sound, music, theater, film and visual and performance art into their readings. Bring up to 3 pages of finished work. We especially encourage past Write Down the Street participants to attend this workshop.
This workshop welcomes participants comfortable in English, Spanish, or both.
Families welcome. Coffee and snacks provided. Teens are welcome to attend with an older relative. We will provide simple activities to keep young children occupied.
This class takes place at the Boston Public Library’s Egleston Square branch, 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119. If you have any difficulty signing up online, please call 617-695-0075.
¡No te pares ahí leyendo sin hacer nada! Interpretando tu escritura en vivo
sabado 23 de junio, 11:30am-1:00pm
Listo para compartir tus escritos–¿en vivo? Mientras los artistas spoken word escriben dentro de una tradición que es a la vez oral, musical, literaria, y performativa, ¿que tal de traer al escenario nuestros cuentos, crónicas, y poemas escritos para la página? ¿Como podemos explotar las potenciales de la lectura literaria para conectar con públicos y añadir nuevas dimensiones a nuestras obras escritas? Nuestra discusión abarcará temas como seleccionar material, el tiempo, el ritmo, la proyección de la voz, y contacto visual. También veremos ejemplos de escritores y poetas que son intérpretes fabulosos y que han introducido a sus lecturas elementos de sonido, música, teatro, cine, performance, y arte visual. Debes traer hasta 3 páginas de tu obra escrita. En particular le animamos a los que han participado anteriormente en Write Down the Street a asistir a este taller.
Son bienvenidos en este taller los participantes que se sienten cómodos en inglés o español.
La clase tomará lugar en el sucursal Egleston Square de la Biblioteca Pública de Boston, 2044 Columbus Ave, Roxbury, MA 02119. Cualquier dificultad para inscribirse en linea, favor de llamar a 617-695-0075.
Love to write but don’t have anywhere to get feedback on your work? Want to meet fellow writers and work under the guidance of published authors? GrubStreet is here to help!
Drop by their Open House on Thursday, May 24th for drinks, snacks, and the answers to your questions about all things GrubStreet. New or future grubbies can get to know Grub HQ, hear about upcoming Summer classes, and mingle with fellow students and writers. Grub staff members will be on hand to discuss your writing goals and recommend classes that are right for you, plus we have special class discounts for all attendees.
Not only that, but current Grubbies will read from their work in our Student Showcase! Come with any questions between 5:30 and 6:55pm. Reading starts at 7:00pm.