Category: Alumni

Ashley Anna McHugh wins the New Criterion Poetry Prize

November 18, 2010 at 3:22 PM

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 […]

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The Breukelein Institute honors Jhumpa Lahiri

November 16, 2010 at 12:52 PM

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, […]

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Alumni News

November 8, 2010 at 4:02 PM

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 […]

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H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy in the New York Times

November 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM

Alumnus H.M. Naqvi’s debut novel, Home Boy, has garnered a glowing review in the Times; Joseph Salvatore calls it “smart and sorrowful… a remarkably engaging novel that delights as it disturbs.” You can read the full review here, visit Naqvi’s homepage, or read a little of the book by clicking below.

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Women in Literary Arts (WILA) Conference

August 7, 2009 at 2:32 PM

BU Alumna, Erin Belieu, along with Cate Marvin are planning a Women in Literary Arts Conference, and there is a considerable amount of excitement about the proposed conference, and I think a lot of our grads, and current students may be interested in attending. It’s likely to be in the Boston area, either in late […]

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PEN/ O. Henry Prize Winners

August 5, 2009 at 4:05 PM

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!

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H.M. Naqvi

July 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM

 Husain Naqvi’s book, Home Boy, was accepted for publication some time ago. At last we have a little cover art to look at. Even if Amazon isn’t providing us with searchable content within the novel itself just yet, at least we know what to look for when it hits the shelves on the 25th of […]

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Schmuel Traum Prize

July 8, 2009 at 11:41 AM

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 […]

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The Old Man From Highwater

June 26, 2009 at 10:38 AM

Swann Li I             In the early morning when Father Fan came home, on his back a bamboo tub of newly dug-up peanuts, muddy and wet, the rain was still falling. Shafts of water were beating on the stone slabs in the yard, splashing up into hundreds of fuzzy dandelion blossoms, wetting the feathers of […]

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AAP Anthology

June 4, 2009 at 5:11 PM

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.

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