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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to live in Boston.  I have a friend who is a published novelist and poet, and he was somewhat obsessed with teaching/being a part of Grubb Street.  He thought that his personal appearance was what was keeping them from accepting him, and I thought he was paranoid.  But now I think maybe there was something to what he said.

Also, I took one class through Grubb Street in person, and it was lackluster.  The teacher was not a published novelist "yet"; she was very young and it was her first year out of her MFA program.  She wasn't very good (but she was cute and perky, so now I am wondering...).

I also paid for one of the Grubb Street staff to read my novel and give a report, and now I regret that.  It took a lot of courage to show my book to someone, and I felt so vulnerable, wondering if the reader was going to show passages to other staff and laugh at me.  Now I am guessing that this very well could have happened. (The reader I chose was not one of the people mentioned in this scandal).[/quote]

Ouch! I really feel your last paragraph. That weighs on me too. But don't let it eat at you, and don't let it make you hide your work from others in the future. Maybe this story will wake some people up and bring back the true professionals.[/quote]

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