Category: Alumni

Playwriting Award

June 3, 2009 at 4:38 PM

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 […]

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Prize Winners

June 3, 2009 at 11:43 AM

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 […]

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Tiananmen Square, 20 Years Later

June 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM

As some of you may know Rachel DeWoskin (GRS ’00 and mentioned in the previous post) spent a large part of her life living in China. She’s just written a piece for NPR, looking back on the Tiananmen Square massacre, and its historical significance. You can read the full text of her article on the NPR website. (Photo […]

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Rachel DeWoskin

May 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM

Creative Writing alumna, Rachel DeWoskin (GRS ’00), will be reading from her new novel Repeat After Me, her fiction debut (her wonderful memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing first appeared in 2005), on June 9th at the BU Barnes & Noble, starting at 7:00 pm, in their 5th floor reading room.  Congratulations, Rachel, and here’s hoping everyone can […]

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Bits of Good News

May 22, 2009 at 5:03 PM

I’ve just found out that several of our students have been published, or will be shortly. Maya Sloan, GRS 2007, has published “Christian Living” in Passages North, and a quick Google search tells me she’s got stories forthcoming in Boulevard and Driftwood. (There may be a book on the horizon as well, but let’s hold […]

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Commencement, May 2009

May 18, 2009 at 1:32 PM

Christopher Martin, Michael Towers, and Alexis Kozak, moments before the commencement ceremony began. After commencement, our three students celebrate with William Fancher. 

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Taylor Altman

May 7, 2009 at 2:26 PM

The Ponds of Boston Some pitted by rain like spotted mirrors, others 
 green and smoky as Venetian glass, 
 choked with weeds and hidden in the woods; some shallow as the palm of a hand, and clear to the bottom, bright with koi; still others dark and turbid, stirred from underneath; some salty to […]

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Nigel Assam

May 6, 2009 at 4:57 PM

Lapeyrouse   From my grandfather on, my family was supposed to be buried in Lapeyrouse Cemetery across from Queen Victoria Square in Trinidad. Back there, there’s no family mausoleum. I remember his grave, shoots of grass from between stones, the corners of the cross blunted, and the too narrow street wide enough only for a […]

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The Wind in the Willows

May 5, 2009 at 4:25 PM

Two new editions of The Wind in the Willows appeared this week, one of them a scholarly, annotated edition by Creative Writing alumna Annie Gauger, who earned her MA here in 1999, and went on to the Editorial Institute to complete her PhD in the early 2000s. Both new editions of the classic childrens’ story were […]

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Alessandra Gelmi

May 4, 2009 at 3:24 PM

Alessandra Gelmi’s (GRS 1999) new book, Ring of Fire: Collected Poems 1972-2008 is now out from Publish America. 

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