{"id":1710,"date":"2014-12-01T13:45:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2014-12-01T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T19:00:29","slug":"emma-duffy-comparones-first-story-leads-pushcart-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2014\/12\/01\/emma-duffy-comparones-first-story-leads-pushcart-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Duffy-Comparone&#8217;s debut story leads Pushcart Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/01\/Emma-Duffy-Comparone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2014\/01\/Emma-Duffy-Comparone-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Emma Duffy-Comparone\" width=\"233\" height=\"310\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/01\/Emma-Duffy-Comparone-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2014\/01\/Emma-Duffy-Comparone-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re thrilled to announce that Emma Duffy-Comparone&#8217;s story, &#8220;The Zen Thing,&#8221; is the lead story of 2015&#8217;s Pushcart Prize anthology! \u00a0According to the introduction by Bill Henderson, it&#8217;s the first time in the history of the prize that an author&#8217;s first-published story has been chosen to lead the collection.<\/p>\n<p>Hearty congratulations, Emma!<\/p>\n<p>You can read an interview with Emma and a\u00a0snippet of &#8220;The Zen Thing&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.one-story.com\/index.php?page=stories&amp;story_id=175\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Duffy-Comparone\u2019s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in <em>The Pushcart Prize XXXIX, Ploughshares, One Story, American Scholar, Southern Review, Mississippi Review, Cincinnati Review<\/em>, and <em>The Sun<\/em>. She has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conferences, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Elizabeth George Foundation. She is a lecturer at Tufts University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re thrilled to announce that Emma Duffy-Comparone&#8217;s story, &#8220;The Zen Thing,&#8221; is the lead story of 2015&#8217;s Pushcart Prize anthology! \u00a0According to the introduction by Bill Henderson, it&#8217;s the first time in the history of the prize that an author&#8217;s first-published story has been chosen to lead the collection. Hearty congratulations, Emma! You can read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,620,4163],"tags":[8832,8833],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}