{"id":1796,"date":"2015-02-06T12:36:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2015-02-06T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:36:38","slug":"dariel-suarez-finalist-for-new-american-press-fiction-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/02\/06\/dariel-suarez-finalist-for-new-american-press-fiction-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Dariel Suarez finalist for New American Press Fiction Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/02\/15_01darielsuarez_cpg010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/02\/15_01darielsuarez_cpg010-770x1024.jpg\" alt=\"15_01darielsuarez_cpg010\" width=\"289\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/02\/15_01darielsuarez_cpg010-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/02\/15_01darielsuarez_cpg010-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/02\/15_01darielsuarez_cpg010.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 289px) 100vw, 289px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Terrific news for Dariel Suarez (Fiction 2012), whose book of short stories,\u00a0<em>A Kind of Solitude<\/em>, has been selected as a\u00a0finalist for the New American Press Fiction Prize! The official announcement can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/newamericanpress.com\">here.<\/a>\u00a0 The book includes\u00a0several short stories that Dariel worked on while in the MFA program.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a story from the collection,\u00a0\u201cOtto\u2019s Body,\u201d has been accepted by the press\u2019s Editor-In-Chief for publication in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maydaymagazine.com\/\"><em>MAYDAY<\/em> Magazine<\/a>, where the contest finalists will be highlighted.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Dariel!<\/p>\n<p>Dariel Suarez is the author of the chapbook <em>In The Land of Tropical Martyrs<\/em>, available from Backbone Press. He earned his M.F.A. in fiction at Boston University and is one of the founding editors of <em>Middle Gray Magazine.<\/em> He has taught creative writing at Boston University, the Boston Arts Academy, and Boston University\u2019s Metropolitan College. Dariel\u2019s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous journals and magazines, including <em>Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, The Florida Review, Southern Humanities Review,<\/em> and <em>The Caribbean Writer<\/em>, as well as several anthologies. Dariel is currently finishing revisions on a novel about a Cuban political prisoner, titled <em>The Playwright\u2019s House.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrific news for Dariel Suarez (Fiction 2012), whose book of short stories,\u00a0A Kind of Solitude, has been selected as a\u00a0finalist for the New American Press Fiction Prize! The official announcement can be found here.\u00a0 The book includes\u00a0several short stories that Dariel worked on while in the MFA program. In addition, a story from the collection,\u00a0\u201cOtto\u2019s [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"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=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}