Leader of Boston-based GrubStreet reflects on writing center's mission and successes

The nation's largest creative writing center is located right here in Boston. GrubStreet has taught students from around the world for the last 27 years. The group's mission is to create a productive and welcoming space for feedback on creative writing of all kinds. And that mission, seems to be working.

GrubStreet says over the last five years, writers in its community published nearly 2,000 novels, essays, memoirs and poems. Of those, close to 200 have been nominated or honored with awards or prizes.

We talk with Eve Bridburg, GrubStreet's founder and executive director, about the group's mission and what's next for the center and its writers.