BU Creative Writing

The Stormchasers (Dutton, 2010), by 1998 BU fiction graduate Jenna Blum, will be available on paperback on April 26 wherever books are sold. The story is about twins who have been separated by tragedy, who are reunited through storms. An excerpt and synopsis are available here: http://www.jennablum.com/blum-stormchasers-synopsis.htm Kirkus Reviews describes the book as “a somber, […]

This is a reminder that our Annual Faculty Reading, which has become one of the premier literary events in the city, has been rescheduled for Tuesday, April 12, at 6:00PM in the BU School of Management Auditorium. The reading will feature Leslie Epstein, David Ferry, Allegra Goodman, Louise Gluck, Ha Jin, Ronan Noone, Sigrid Nunez, […]

Jennifer Cacicio, 2008 graduate of our MFA in Creative Writing program in Fiction, has had a candid and thoughtful piece on modern dating published by Salon. Jennifer details her recent breakup, and how her life suddenly began to resemble the HBO series “Big Love” (which had its finale last night) here. Jennifer’s writing has appeared […]

William Oppenheimer (Class of 1991) has a new book of stories out, Goody Tw0-Shoes, which is now available as a Kindle e-book. The collection looks back on the tensions between a pair of twins growing up in New Jersey during the 1970s. It features the title story, described by Esquire as “a pleasure to read” […]

We’d like to congratulate our own Jill Maio (Fiction 2009), whose story “Tallying” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the Los Angeles Review. The LAR describes “Tallying,” which appeared in their Fall 2010 Issue 8, as “one of those haunting and courageous stories, painful yet somehow humorous at times.” Congratulations, Jill!