BU Creative Writing

Middle Men, a collection of short stories by Jim Gavin (Fiction 2011), will be released today by Simon & Schuster. In a starred review, Kirkus has called Middle Men “exceptional…the best kind of satire: barbed and hilarious, but suffused with compassion”, and The Los Angeles Times has selected Jim as one of their “Faces to […]

A story by Alice Lesch Kelly (Fiction 1992), “Good Girl,” has been published in the winter issue of The Quotable, a print and online journal.  Her blog post about the story, “A Man Brings Home a Dog,” appears on the journal’s blog. You can read “Good Girl” online here and buy a copy of the […]

Don Share (Poetry 1988), who is Senior Editor of POETRY magazine, has recently published several new books. Wishbone, his third book of poems, is out now from Black Sparrow; his translations of Miguel Hernández, which earned him the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize, are being issued in March in a revised and expanded edition by […]

Cara Bayles, one of our current students, has just had a story–titled “Next”–published in Meridian (the semiannual publication from the University of Virginia). You can purchase a copy of the magazine here. Congratulations, Cara! Cara Bayles is an MFA candidate in fiction at Boston University. As a journalist, she covered the neighborhoods of Boston and […]

A poem by Dariel Suarez (Fiction 2012), titled “Signs,” has just been published in the latest print issue of Gargoyle Magazine, Gargoyle #59. Dariel was born in Havana, Cuba, where he resided until 1997. Dariel’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in several publications, including Collier’s Magazine, Versal, Smokelong Quarterly, the 2River View, and The Florida […]