{"id":1939,"date":"2015-06-22T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=1939"},"modified":"2015-06-22T11:56:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:56:03","slug":"bu-alumni-found-prodigal-literary-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/06\/22\/bu-alumni-found-prodigal-literary-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"BU alumni found Prodigal literary magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1939-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/video-550236-h264_high.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/video-550236-h264_high.mp4\">\/crwr\/files\/2015\/06\/video-550236-h264_high.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re thrilled\u00a0to announce the creation of\u00a0<em>Prodigal,<\/em>\u00a0a new literary journal of poetry and prose<em>\u00a0<\/em>founded by BU Creative Writing alumni! \u00a0Its editors include Aaron Kerner (former MFA program coordinator), Michael Kinnucan, Jordan Zandi (poetry &#8217;11) , Chiara Scully, and Nicholas Leonard (poetry &#8217;12), and the art director is Vilija Pakalniskis. \u00a0 The first issue comes out both in print and on the web this fall. \u00a0Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prodigallitmag.com\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0to go to their website and see some of the work to be featured in the inaugural issue, and click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1850725271\/prodigal-literary-magazine\">here<\/a> for the Kickstarter campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Each issue has a theme, and the first issue of <em>Prodigal<\/em> explores &#8220;the tension between singular and collective identities, the &#8216;i&#8217; versus &#8216;we.&#8217;&#8221; Contributors range from emerging to established writers both in the US and abroad, and include\u00a0Ryan Patrick Frank (poetry &#8217;04), Vanesha Pravin (poetry &#8217;09),\u00a0Sophie Grimes (poetry &#8217;11), and Tomas Unger (poetry &#8217;14),\u00a0among others.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prodigal<\/em> opens submissions for its second issue mid-summer.\u00a0Jordan Zandi writes that\u00a0&#8220;it could be a great venue for graduates of the program (especially recent ones) to send their work.&#8221; \u00a0Visit the\u00a0<em>Prodigal\u00a0<\/em>website for more info.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, BU MFAs! \u00a0We&#8217;re so proud of you.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re thrilled\u00a0to announce the creation of\u00a0Prodigal,\u00a0a new literary journal of poetry and prose\u00a0founded by BU Creative Writing alumni! \u00a0Its editors include Aaron Kerner (former MFA program coordinator), Michael Kinnucan, Jordan Zandi (poetry &#8217;11) , Chiara Scully, and Nicholas Leonard (poetry &#8217;12), and the art director is Vilija Pakalniskis. \u00a0 The first issue comes out both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,522],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939"}],"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=1939"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1939\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}