Abstract
This creative nonfiction essay uses portraiture, a method developed by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, to examine the ways in which Grub Street, a creative writing organization for adults in Boston, USA, acts a support for adults' learning, growth, and development. In addition, this essay situates the organization within a broader context of nonprofit organizations designed to give voice and empowerment through writing especially to those who are traditionally underserved. Through the identification of themes such as finding a “through-line” or narrative to one's own writing, and by extension to one's own life, this work suggests that the same organization can have at times quite different meanings for its participants, but nonetheless unites them in the desire to integrate life and thought into creating one's best work.
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