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Jessica Lott’s new novel

August 16, 2012 at 10:55 AM

We’re pleased to announce that Jessica Lott (Fiction 2004)’s novel THE REST OF US will be published by Simon & Schuster in the summer 2013. Jessica won the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award at Boston University and has an MA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis (2002). Her first book, the novella Osin (that she […]

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A debut novel deal for Kimberly Elkins

August 7, 2012 at 5:14 PM

We are very excited to report that Kimberly Elkins (Fiction 2010)’s novel, “What Is Visible,” which she worked on while at BU, has been sold to Grand Central Publishing, a division of Little, Brown. A chapter from the novel, “The Letter,” is the runner-up for the Nelson Algren Award and will be published shortly in […]

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Lisa Hiton in the Summer 2012 issue of the Indiana Review

June 26, 2012 at 2:14 PM

We’re proud to announce that Lisa Hiton’s poem “Tuesday” has been published in this summer’s issue of The Indiana Review! Lisa graduated in 2011 with an MFA in Poetry from BU, where she was a Teaching Fellow and co-curator of a reading series, Writers at the Black Box.  Among other honors, Lisa has been the […]

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Megan Fernandes publication news

May 2, 2012 at 11:31 AM

We’re proud to share Megan Fernandes (MFA: Poetry, 2013)’s recent publishing news, all accomplished as she’s been a full-time student in our MFA program! In the past year, Megan has published two chapbooks: Organ Speech (Corrupt Press) and Some Citrus Makes me Blue (Dancing Girl Press). The anthology she co-edited, Strangers in Paris (Tightrope Books) […]

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Kelly Morse recent publications

April 30, 2012 at 12:50 PM

Kelly Morse, a poet currently studying in our MFA program, has been quite busy as a student, publishing no fewer than four poems in this past year! Congratulations, Kelly. Please visit the following links to read Kelly’s wonderful poetry. “Phuong Vy” – mojo, issue 2 (forthcoming late spring) http://mikrokosmosjournal.com/wordpress/ “Natural Language” and “How to Drink the […]

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Caitlin Doyle’s poem in The Atlantic

April 18, 2012 at 1:53 PM

Caitlin Doyle, who received her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from BU in 2008, has had one of her poems published in the May 2012 issue of The Atlantic. Caitlin has also been awarded the 2012 ALSCW (Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers) Fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. The fellowship provides a […]

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Lisa Hiton: “Against Irreverence”

April 12, 2012 at 12:14 PM

Lisa Hiton (MFA, Poetry, 2011) has published a fascinating article about yoga, teaching, and cynicism, in the online elephant journal. Click here: “Against Irreverence: Unleashing the Wrecking Ball.” Lisa’s poetry and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Indiana Review, 491 Magazine, The Poetry Dress, and others. She teaches college literature and yoga in […]

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Carolyn Mainardi, BU undergraduate, published in Danse Macabre

April 6, 2012 at 12:43 PM

Exciting news this Friday–Carolyn Mainardi, a senior in the College of Communication at BU who has taken courses from MFA students and alumni of the Creative Writing Program, including Caroline Woods’s EN 305 and Daphne Kalotay’s EN 405, has been published! Her story, “Secret Eater,” about a girl whose sister is gnawed by a shark, […]

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BU Poetry Faculty in the Boston Globe

March 6, 2012 at 6:08 PM

The Boston Globe featured three of our readers at the February 22, 2012 Annual Faculty reading on their Names blog: http://www.boston.com/Boston/names/2012/02/poets-gather-boston-university/pwPMK8L9JruadtTZKuaU6O/index.html Leslie Epstein, Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner Ha Jin, Molly Smith Metzler, and Chloe Martinez also read.

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Read it online: new short fiction by Micah Nathan

February 10, 2012 at 5:59 PM

Micah Nathan (Fiction 2010), award-winning author of the novels Losing Graceland and Gods of Aberdeen, has two new short stories either already published or coming soon. Happy news for a Friday: you can read one of them online. “One Act” was released in the Gettysburg Review’s last issue. You can read the story here. “Quarry” […]

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