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Ashley Anna McHugh wins the New Criterion Poetry Prize

Coordinator — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:22:18 +0000

Ashley Anna McHugh has just been awarded the tenth annual New Criterion Poetry Prize for her new book, Into These Knots (Ivan R. Dee, October 2010). Ashley is a 2007 graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing MFA program in Poetry.

For news and information about the New Criterion Poetry Prize, visit their website at http://www.newcriterion.com/

The Breukelein Institute honors Jhumpa Lahiri

Coordinator — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:52:45 +0000

Photo credit: Elena Seibert

On Monday, November 15, 2010, The Breukelein Institute conferred its Gaudium Award upon four outstanding men and women: Stephen Colbert, Rick Curry, S.J., Carmen Dell’Orefice, and Jhumpa Lahiri, a graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing program in Fiction and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies. Ms. Lahiri is also the author of The Namesake, a novel, and Unaccustomed Earth, her second short story collection.

The Institute’s annual fund raising dinner was held at the Yale Club in New York City.

www.breukelein.org/gaudium2010.htm

www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/jhumpalahiri/

Alumni News

Coordinator — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:02:37 +0000

Happy November and welcome back to the blog! We’re happy to share the latest items in alumni news.

-Congratulations to Kevin Shushtari (Fiction ’09), recipient of the Forugh Farrokhzad Fellowship Award: http://www.vermontstudiocenter.org/vsc-announces-new-forugh-farrokhzad-fellowship/

Janee J. Baugher (Poetry ’92)’s debut collection of poems, Coordinates of Yes (Alahada Books), was released in March 2010. Visit Janee’s website for more information on her wonderful new book: http://janeejbaugher.wordpress.com/

-Micah Nathan (Fiction ’10)’s novel, Losing Graceland (Broadway 2011), will be released on January 4, 2011. Micah also will have a story coming out in Gettysburg Review next year.

Kevin Shushtari wins the July 2010 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award

Coordinator — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 16:14:16 +0000

Congratulations to J. Kevin Shushtari, a May 2009 graduate of the MFA program in Fiction here at BU. Kevin has just won the July 2010 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for his story, “The Vast Garden of Strangers.” He will also contribute an essay to Glimmer Train’s next edition of the Glimmer Train Bulletin, their print resource for writers, which consists of tips and techniques from their award-winning contributors.

Glimmer Train’s
Very Short Fiction Award — July 2010
Top 3 Winners And Finalists

1st-place winner:
J. Kevin Shushtari for “The Vast Garden of Strangers”

2nd-place winner:
Graham Arnold for “The Story Is in The Reflection”

3rd-place winner:
Nahal Suzanne Jamir for “In Perfect English”

http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp?action=finalists

http://www.glimmertrain.com/writersask.html

PEN/ O. Henry Prize Winners

Coordinator — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:05:47 +0000

We’ve just learned that Ha Jin and BU alumna E.V. Slate have been named winners of the PEN/ O. Henry Prize. Their stories “The House behind a Weeping Cherry” (Ha Jin), and “Purple Bamboo Park” (E.V. Slate) both appear in the forthcoming PEN/ O. Henry Prize Anthology. Congratulations to both!

Schmuel Traum Prize

Coordinator — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:41:23 +0000

Katherine Hollander, GRS ‘06, was named first prize winner of this year’s Schmuel Traum Prize in Literary Translation, for her translations, from the German, of poems by Else Lasker-Schüler. Says Katherine,”I’m happy and humbled, since Traum himself seems to have been an extraordinary person who, like Lasker-Schüler, was a German Jew who loved European languages and culture, and who maintained that interest and affection even after fleeing Germany for Palestine.” The prize is sponsored by BU’s University Professor’s Program and the Kushner Family in honor of Schmuel Traum.

AAP Anthology

Coordinator — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:11:13 +0000

It seems to be Rachel DeWoskin Week here at BU Creative Writing. We’ve just learned that her poem, an AAP Contest winner from the year 2000, has been selected to be included in the newest Academy of American Poets Anthology.

Playwriting Award

Coordinator — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:38:50 +0000

More good news: I’ve just learned that Stephen Barkhimer (GRS ’07) has won the National John Cauble Short Play Award, from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, for his play Hard Rain. Just so there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind, this is a huge deal.

In addition to being an excellent playwright, Stephen is also a working actor, and a very talented one. Congratulations, Mr. Barkhimer.

Prize Winners

Coordinator — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:43:44 +0000

We’re happy to announce the winners of several awards:

Nikki Bazar is this year’s winner of the Florence Engel Randall Prize in Fiction.

Caroline Sterne is the recipient of the Paul T. Hurley Prize in poetry for 2009.

Shilpi Suneja is the recipient of the Saul Bellow Award for fiction for 2009.

And Renee Emerson’s poem “Brownie” was selected by Lloyd Schwartz as BU’s winning entry for the Academy of American Poets Prize.

Congratulations, everyone.