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Maia Rauschenberg published in Passages North

September 24, 2010 at 11:36 AM

New verse by alumna Maia Rauschenberg (Poetry ’09) has been published in the Winter/Spring 2010 issue of Passages North, a literary magazine published at Northern Michigan University. * Following her graduate, Maia spent several months in Patagonia as the recipient of a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship for travel related to her creative writing. She blogged […]

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Jessica Treadway wins the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award

September 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM

One of our alumni, Jessica Treadway, has won the 2010 Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction award for her short story collection, Please Come Back To Me. The book is to be published this month (September 2010) by the University of Georgia Press.  Jessica graduated from BU’s Creative Writing program in Fiction in 2002. She’s the author of […]

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Kathleen Foster published in Fifty-Two Stories

September 13, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Two of Kathleen Foster’s stories, “The Loveliest Children” and “The Teahouse of the Almighty,” were published this summer online in Fifty-Two Stories, “a fiction delivery service of Harper Perennial.” Kathleen is a recent graduate of the MFA program in Fiction. Her work is now in the July archive of Fifty-Two Stories. Link to the stories […]

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New Publication: Jordan Coriza

August 30, 2010 at 9:17 AM

A new short story, “Ghost”, by writer and translator Jordan Coriza (MFA 2008) has been published in the August 2010 Acentos Review.

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Shilpi Suneja named a short story contest finalist

August 25, 2010 at 10:52 AM

Shilpi Suneja (MFA 2009) was named one of ten finalists in the 2010 Asian American Short Story Contest sponsored by the New York-based Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Hyphen magazine. Shilpi is previously the winner of the “Set in Harvard Square” contest organized by Harvard Book Store, for her story “A River Cannot Be a […]

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Saskya Jain wins Florence Engel Randall Award

May 24, 2010 at 10:46 AM

MFA candidate Saskya Jain has been chosen as 2010 recipient of the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Award, given annually by the Boston University Women’s Guild to an outstanding woman writer in the Creative Writing Program. From the Women’s Guild: “Florence Engel Randall (1917-1997) was the author of The Almost Year, a 1971 American Library Association […]

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Colleen Doyle wins BU AAP student poetry prize

May 5, 2010 at 4:30 PM

The winner of the 2010 Boston University Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Prize – as selected by this year’s judge, David Rivard – is MFA candidate Colleen Doyle (’10). Honorable mention has been awarded to Rebekah Stout (’10). In 1955, The Academy of American Poets established its University and College Poetry Prize program at […]

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Prof. Pinsky and other laureates and heretics

April 27, 2010 at 3:58 PM

In his new book, Laureates and Heretics: Six Careers in American Poetry,Robert Archambeau “examines the influence of the poet and critic Yvor Winters on his final generation of graduate students at Stanford in the early 1960s: Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, James McMichael, John Matthias, and John Peck. Archambeau divides the poets into two groups, laureates […]

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Rosanna Warren in The Atlantic

March 19, 2010 at 10:55 AM

Rosanna Warren’s poem “The Latch” appears in the April 2010 issue of The Atlantic. Prof. Warren is familiar to many in the BU MFA community; in addition to teaching writing, she convenes a translation seminar that brings many professional translators to campus each spring to discuss their product and process. Her most recent book of poems is Departure (2003). […]

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The ALSCW in the DFP

March 16, 2010 at 12:32 PM

Today’s issue of The Daily Free Press has a long feature on the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, which organization has its home office here on the BU campus. From the article by Liza Katz: “Founded in 1994, the organization’s original purpose was to combat disconcerting trends in literary study, ones that overemphasized […]

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