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Join award-winning novelist and writing teacher Michelle Hoover with tips and special guests for your morning writing wake up call, with a range of author interviews and writing challenges to help you get a new project going and keep you in your chair.
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Join Our July Writing Challenge
Featuring Prompts & Lessons from Marie-Helene Bertino's BEAUTYLAND
Kelly J. Ford: Finding Your Genre & Not Giving Up
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Patricia Park & Desmond Hall: Investing in Your Writing Career
Today, fabulous fiction duo Patricia Park and Desmond Hall talk about how writing is like exercise, how to invest in your writing career, and the importance of finding a great teacher and writing community.
Annie Hartnett & Tessa Fontaine On Accountability
Tessa Fontaine and Annie Hartnett return to talk about accountability (and their new writing retreat).
AE Osworth: Revisiting Joy Writing
Their latest, AWAKENED, was released last April
The St. Paddy's Weekend Writing Bootcamp is Just Around the Corner
Join Us March 14 to Energize Your Writing
Crystal King: Tackling the Speculative (& the ornery issue of technology too)
King's latest, THE HAPPINESS COLLECTOR, was released in December
Rosie Sulton & Barbara Best: Peer Coaching for Writers
The New Program Begins This Fall
Join Our St. Paddy's Weekend Writing Bootcamp
An All-Day Event March 14 to Energize Your Writing Routine
Elizabeth Searle: Reverse Engineering for the Script Curious
Her latest, THE DRAMA ROOM, was released this fall
Charlene Wang: Curing a Passive Protagonist
Her novel, I'LL FOLLOW YOU, released in October
Sheri Joseph: The Life-Artifice Spectrum for Revision
Her latest, ANGELS AT THE GATE, was released in September
Peter Orner: Saying Something Slowly
Writing his latest, THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST'S DAUGHTER, took fourteen years
Kristin Vukovic & Jo Piazza: The Complexities of Place
Join Kristin and me at Belmont Books (Mass.), January 15
Roundtable: Can Climate Fiction Move the Needle?
with authors Ash Davidson, Wren James, Tim Weed, Kate Woodworth, and Emma Pattee
Alumni Testimonials from the In-Person GrubStreet Novel Incubator Program
Application Deadline February 18 for our 2026/2027 Year
Josh Barkan: Writing a Memoir Before You Know Its Ending
Ten years later, he revised WONDER TRAVELS for publication
Milo Todd: Writing Challenging Fiction in a Flattening Culture
Todd's debut, THE LILAC PEOPLE, was released in May
Jessica Francis Kane: Leaning into Your Obsessions (& Your Obstacles Too)
Kane's FONSECA was released in August