Category: Alumni

Emma Duffy-Comparone wins Pushcart Prize

May 9, 2014 at 9:28 AM

Fantastic news for Emma Duffy-Comparone!  Emma recently won a Pushcart Prize for her story, “The Zen Thing,” From the story: Each year, like a shifty circus in a truck, the family unpacks itself for a weekend on a beach and pretends to have a good time. This summer they are in Rhode Island, on Scarborough […]

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Poet Tara Skurtu featured on WBUR

May 6, 2014 at 10:33 AM

We’re continually proud of BU poet Tara Skurtu, who, in addition to having her poems published in a slew of journals, was recently featured on Radio Boston’s ARTery segment on WBUR!  What an honor (and a treat!).  Listen to it here. Bravo, Tara! Tara Skurtu teaches Creative Writing at Boston University, where she received a […]

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Lisa Hiton featured on The Casserole Reading Series, among other places

May 5, 2014 at 12:57 PM

Lisa Hiton recently gave a live poetry reading on The Casserole Reading Series, hosted by west coast poet, Chelsea Kurnick!  Check it out here. Two of Lisa’s poems appear in -Anti, and earlier this year, she published this brief and lovely poem in Cellpoems.   In addition, her poem, “Moonchild,” was published in the spring issue […]

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Abriana Jette’s Poetry Anthology features BU poets

May 2, 2014 at 5:24 PM

We’re thrilled to see The Best Emerging Poets of 2013 on sale on Amazon! The book, edited by Abriana “Abe” Jette (poetry alum) features BU poets such as Caitlin Doyle, Bekah Stout, and Dariel Suarez, and is soon to be the number one poetry anthology selling on Amazon. Buy your copy today! Congrats, Abe! Abriana […]

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Publications Galore for Dariel Suarez

May 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM

It’s been an impressively productive year for Dariel Suarez, whose fiction and poetry has been published or is forthcoming in a smattering of journals and other places! His short story, “Lemonade,” was published in Superstition Review this week. Another story, “Hope,” has been accepted for publication by Michigan Quarterly Review. It will appear this summer […]

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Mimi Lipson’s story collection available on Amazon and in stores

April 28, 2014 at 1:40 PM

Mimi Lipson’s book of short stories, The Cloud of Unknowing, is now available on Amazon and in select bookstores nationwide. Hurrah! Published by Yeti Publishing, the book has received enthusiastic reviews from Sigrid Nunez and Ha Jin, among others. Read an interview with Mimi here, and be sure to check out the stories, which Sigrid […]

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Poets Who Sound Like Spring

April 15, 2014 at 10:43 AM

Three BU poetry alums–Natasha Hakimi, Mike Brokos, and Sophie Grimes–have been featured in Stay Thirsty magazine!  The quarterly column was written by Abriana Jette, who is a BU alum herself.  Congrats, poets!  

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Anthony Wallace’s novel named finalist for PEN/Hemingway Award

April 3, 2014 at 4:01 PM

Fantastic news for Anthony (Tony) Wallace, whose novel The Old Priest has been named a finalist for the 2014 PEN/ Hemingway Award!  What a great honor.  We at Creative Writing are proud and impressed! Tony in The Times. As a finalist, Tony will attend the awards ceremony at the Kennedy Library on April 6 and also get a […]

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Kelly Morse published in Brevity

March 3, 2014 at 4:39 PM

Great news for Kelly Morse, whose essay, Saigon, was recently published in Brevity: a Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. “There’s no room on the sidewalk, never is, no sloped exits. A moat of trash. The man’s breath explodes as he pushes out of potholes, waits for lights amidst the motorbikes; facing forward, his shoulder-blades droop […]

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Qais Akbar Omar interviewed by The Economist

June 14, 2013 at 11:23 AM

Qais Akbar Omar (Fiction, 2015) is interviewed today at The Economist’s Prospero literary blog. From the interview: WHEN the Taliban were forced out of Kabul in 2001, life began once again for Qais Akbar Omar. He helped rebuild the family carpet business, became an interpreter for the United Nations, worked on a Dari-language production of […]

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