BU Creative Writing

William Oppenheimer (Class of 1991) has a new book of stories out, Goody Tw0-Shoes, which is now available as a Kindle e-book. The collection looks back on the tensions between a pair of twins growing up in New Jersey during the 1970s. It features the title story, described by Esquire as “a pleasure to read” […]

We’d like to congratulate our own Jill Maio (Fiction 2009), whose story “Tallying” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the Los Angeles Review. The LAR describes “Tallying,” which appeared in their Fall 2010 Issue 8, as “one of those haunting and courageous stories, painful yet somehow humorous at times.” Congratulations, Jill!

Each year the Massachusetts Book Awards recognize the best writers in this vibrant literary state by naming winners and a list of “Recommended Readings” in four genres — fiction, nonfiction, poetry & children’s/young adult literature. This year, The Unpredictability of Light (Word Press), a collection of poems by Boston University Creative Writing alumna Marguerite Bouvard […]

Robert Pinsky, BU poetry professor and former U.S. Poet Laureate, will give three performances in LA next week with the great Bobby Bradford and his Mo’tet: Wednesday 2/9 at the Oakwood School, Thursday 2/10 at the Armand Hammer Museum, Friday noon at The Century in Century City.