{"id":1935,"date":"2015-06-19T11:16:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1935"},"modified":"2015-06-19T16:06:21","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T20:06:21","slug":"jillian-jackson-awarded-st-botolph-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/06\/19\/jillian-jackson-awarded-st-botolph-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Jillian Jackson Awarded SBCF Emerging Artist Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_0934.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_0934-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0934\" class=\" wp-image-1936  alignleft\" height=\"369\" width=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_0934-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/IMG_0934-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re so proud to announce that\u00a0current MFA candidate\u00a0Jillian Jackson\u00a0has received a prestigious\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sbcfboston.beyondbracketsandpixels.com\/sample-page\/\">St. Botolph&#8217;s Club Foundation<\/a> (SBCF) Emerging Artist Grant! \u00a0SBCF is dedicated to promoting artistic and cultural enterprises of New Englanders through generous grants for artists\u00a0&#8220;to whom it can make a difference through the combination of financial support, recognition, and endorsement.&#8221; \u00a0Some of the Creative Writing Program&#8217;s former St. Botolph grant recipients include poet Duy Doan and fiction writers\u00a0Kimberly Elkins, Mai Wang, and Emma Duffy-Comparone. \u00a0We&#8217;re so pleased to add Jillian to this great list.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations,\u00a0Jill! We&#8217;re excited to read your work soon.<\/p>\n<p>Jillian Jackson is an MFA Fiction candidate at Boston University. She has a degree in literature from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and she&#8217;s interned for many Boston area publishers, including David R. Godine, Shambhala Publications, and Candlewick Press. She&#8217;s the recipient of Boston University&#8217;s Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award. She lives in Allston, MA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re so proud to announce that\u00a0current MFA candidate\u00a0Jillian Jackson\u00a0has received a prestigious\u00a0St. Botolph&#8217;s Club Foundation (SBCF) Emerging Artist Grant! \u00a0SBCF is dedicated to promoting artistic and cultural enterprises of New Englanders through generous grants for artists\u00a0&#8220;to whom it can make a difference through the combination of financial support, recognition, and endorsement.&#8221; \u00a0Some of the Creative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[620,858],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935"}],"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=1935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1953,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1935\/revisions\/1953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}