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The Creative Writing Department’s Summer Class Offerings Are Here!

March 21, 2022 at 12:25 PM

                                It’s that time of year again — summer course listings have gone live! We have plenty of fantastic courses to offer — including a completely new, interdisciplinary class — and this summer is the perfect time to join us […]

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Classmates Receive Grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation

February 18, 2022 at 10:01 AM

Yu-Mei Balasingamchow and Pritha Bhattacharyya were classmates in Boston University’s MFA Fiction class of 2019. In January, both of them were awarded creative writing grants by the Elizabeth George Foundation. The Creative Department was thrilled to hear of this news, and department administrator Annaka Saari conducted a short email interview with Yu-Mei and Pritha after learning […]

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Weike Wang to be Next Speaker in Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series

February 3, 2022 at 10:54 AM

The Boston University Creative Writing department is so excited to welcome Weike Wang (Fiction ’15) as the next speaker in The Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series. Weike will join us via Zoom at 7:00PM on Thursday, 03 March. She will read from her new novel Joan is Okay, which was released by Random House in January, […]

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John Rosengren’s Tenth Book to Come Out in March

January 20, 2022 at 2:21 PM

John Rosengren (MA ’94)’s tenth book Classic Baseball: Timeless Tales, Immortal Moments will be released by Rowman & Littlefield in March. The book is a collection of articles written by Rosengren — some of which originally appeared in Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, VICE Sports, and other outlets — that explores stories surrounding legends such as Ty Cobb and […]

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Eleanor Goodman Receives NEA Fellowship

January 19, 2022 at 2:56 PM

Eleanor Goodman (Poetry ’03) has been named a 2022 Translation Fellow by the National Endowment for the Arts! The fellowship has been awarded in support of her translation of Chinese writer Zang Di’s poetry collection Elegies for My Son. Di has dedicated himself to writing one poem a day for decades, and the poems in Elegies […]

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Daniel Hardisty’s Collection Wins East Anglian Book Award

November 9, 2021 at 3:50 PM

Daniel Hardisty (Poetry ’18)’s collection Rose with Harm has been named the winner of the poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards! The book was published by Salt in late 2020, and was also shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Prize 2021. Gail Mazur has called the book “A really beautiful and mature […]

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Neshat Khan Earns Pushcart Mention

November 5, 2021 at 10:25 AM

BU alum Neshat Khan (Fiction ’17) has a lot of good news to share! Her story, “Gifted,” which was named finalist in Mississippi Review’s Fiction Contest (and was published in last year’s summer issue), received a Special Mention in the most recent Pushcart Anthology. Additionally, Neshat’s story “Moonspotting” was recently named a finalist for New […]

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The Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series Presents: Lisa Taddeo

November 2, 2021 at 3:54 PM

Boston University’s Program in Creative Writing is thrilled to announce that Lisa Taddeo (Fiction ’17) will be the featured reader for this fall’s installation of The Ha Jin Visiting Lecturer Series, which will take place on November 17 at 7:00 PM. Lisa will be reading from her debut novel, Animal, and will then participate in a […]

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Lisa Hiton’s Book Reviewed by Meg Fernandes

October 13, 2021 at 9:15 AM

The first review of Lisa Hiton (Poetry ’11)’s debut collection Afterfeast, has arrived! The book was reviewed in Harriet Books, Poetry Foundation’s portal for poetry-related news. The reviewer, Boston University alum Meg Fernandes (Poetry ’12), said of the book: “Lisa Hiton’s Afterfeast explores Mediterranean superstition, the spiritual complexities of Judaism, and the undersung erotics of lesbian intimacy with […]

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Stories by Carolynn Mireault Published and Forthcoming

October 12, 2021 at 11:21 AM

Carolynn Mireault (Fiction ’22) has been on a hot streak. This summer, Carolynn has published her stories in The South Shore Review (“Grief Bacon”), Across the Margin (“Blessing the Whammies”), FEED (“Joy of the World at Night” and “Here it Happens”), and Misery Tourism (“Unhappy Woman”). In addition to these stories, Carolynn also has pieces forthcoming in Louisiana Literature, BULL, The Westchester Review, […]

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