About the Writers’ Room of Boston
Our Mission
The Writers’ Room of Boston is a welcoming and supportive community and workspace for writers in all genres. The Room is a sanctuary that provides a quiet, secure, and accessible space in which to write and is open 24/7, 365 days a year. It also helps writers at all stages in their writing careers access the necessary resources and community to expand and promote their work.
No serious writer is turned away for financial reasons.
OUR COMMUNITY
Meet the Writers
Members
Arlene Flores
Arlene Flores is a Latina emerging fiction writer and poet. She loves…
Marc Eichen
Marc Eichen’s stories have appeared in Still Points Arts Quarterly, The Chautauqua Review, West…
Matt Izzy
Matt Izzi has been a member of the Writers’ Room of Boston…
Paul Farwell
Paul Farwell’s short stories have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, The Antioch…
Catherine Weiner
I am working on a fiction novel, as well as short and…
Joan Nichols
I’m working on a family saga. The first book, THE RED CLOAK,…
Elazar Mack
Currently work on a novel temporarily called: “Not in order to get…
George Chang
I will be working on a young adult romance novel called “The…
Bria Smith
My research Chronic Stress in Black Femmes in Boston is a project…
Fellows
Tragique
Fellow in memoir. Over 3 years I have accumulated over 100,000 words…
Ciera Miller
Fellow in Children’s and Young Adult genres.
Ciera Miller is an Associate…
Tzlil Kahana
Fellow in Nonfiction. I am currently looking for inspiration and I feel…
Ariel Friedman
Fellow in Poetry.
I am a multi-genre cellist, songwriter, poet, and mother.…
Christine Benvenuto
Fellow in Other Genres.
I am at work on a full length…
Christopher Pascal
Fellow in Nonfiction. I am researching the history of slavery and abolitionism…
Elizabeth Austin
Gish Jen Fiction Fellow.
As a night shift nurse, I follow a…
Isabelle Joy Stephen
Fellow in Nonfiction. AI’m currently working on a collection of essays entitled…
Pablo Torroella
Fellow in Script and Screen genres.
I intend on writing a feature…
Board
Marc Eichen
Marc Eichen’s stories have appeared in Still Points Arts Quarterly, The Chautauqua Review, West…
Matt Izzy
Matt Izzi has been a member of the Writers’ Room of Boston…
Paul Farwell
Paul Farwell’s short stories have appeared in Chicago Quarterly Review, The Antioch…
Alumni
Annaka Saari
I’m currently at work on a manuscript (with the working title Play) that I hope will eventually be published as my first poetry collection. The poems in Play operate at…
Ashley Abitz
Ashley is an MFA student in poetry at Emerson College. She holds a BFA in poetry from Texas Tech University, where she received the Stephen Ross Huffman Poetry Award in…
Sara Desmond
I am at work on a major revision of a multi-generational novel about grief and redemption set in the rural Pennsylvania of my upbringing. It’s entitled, “Gather the Ghosts.”
Izzy Astuto
Over this next year, I plan to focus on two different scripts of mine. The first is the feature film I wrote as my college thesis, which is a religious…
Brody Childs
While at WROB I intend to continue work on my science fiction series Illegal Astronauts and the on-going production process (writing, editing, and designing) my weekly writing Substack posts.
Mable Chan
Mable Chan is a journalist, writer, producer, and founder of One in a Billion Productions, a film-focused multi-media nonprofit. Her current writing projects include a memoir and a TV pilot.…
Sophia Wetzig
“I am working on a long-form narrative nonfiction manuscript that operates on the level of grammar and syntax. In other words, it’s nonfiction prose but operates like poetry. It uses…
Kevin Pakrad
I am working on a project which was initially a short story, but has evolved into something bigger. It is about a horrible man called Fish who, at the start…
Caroline White
I’m currently conducting a directed study with Margot Douaihy at Emerson College titled “Poetry as the Language of the Body,” where I’m exploring the connection between poetic form, negative space,…
Madelyn Cornetta
I am currently working on a modern retelling of Ariadne and the Minotaur, set in a fictional 1950's-style city where Minos uses McCarthyism-like tactics to round up Athenian immigrants and…
Pascale Harter
Board Member for Communications, Engagement & Partnerships,
Pascale is a storytelling strategist and multimedia journalist with an award-winning career at the BBC. She hosts the narrative-focused international news show From…