{"id":2031,"date":"2015-09-21T14:40:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T18:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:41:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:41:59","slug":"cara-bayles-wins-chautauqua-journal-editors-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/09\/21\/cara-bayles-wins-chautauqua-journal-editors-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Cara Bayles wins Chautauqua Journal Editors&#8217; Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/bayles-mug.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/bayles-mug-721x1024.png\" alt=\"bayles mug\" width=\"303\" height=\"430\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/bayles-mug-721x1024.png 721w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/bayles-mug-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2015\/09\/bayles-mug.png 1527w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m\u00a0excited to announce that my former classmate, Cara Bayles (Fiction 2013),<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>won the <a href=\"http:\/\/chautauqualit.tumblr.com\/\"><em>Chautauqua Journal\u00a0<\/em>Editors&#8217; Prize<\/a>!\u00a0 Cara first wrote the winning story, &#8220;Ostracita,&#8221; for a workshop with Leslie Epstein here at BU. \u00a0The piece\u00a0will automatically be nominated for the Pushcart Prize as a condition of the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats, Cara! and we&#8217;ll keep our fingers crossed for the Pushcart.<\/p>\n<p>Cara Bayles&#8217; work has appeared or is forthcoming in <em>The Threepenny Review<\/em>,<em> Meridian<\/em> (University of Virginia), <em>Chautauqua Literary Journal<\/em>, <em>Ruminate<\/em>, <em>Trop<\/em>, and the anthology\u00a0<em>Watching the Cash Roll in Since 2012<\/em>.\u00a0She received a 2014-2015 Steinbeck Fellowship at San Jose State University to work on her novel. She is also the recipient of a Leslie Epstein Global Fellowship in Fiction, a Pushcart Prize nomination, and a\u00a0Tennessee Williams scholarship to attend the 2015 Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference. She is a graduate of Boston University&#8217;s MFA program.\u00a0As an award-winning journalist, she&#8217;s spent the past six years covering the streets of Boston and the bayous of southern Louisiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m\u00a0excited to announce that my former classmate, Cara Bayles (Fiction 2013),\u00a0won the Chautauqua Journal\u00a0Editors&#8217; Prize!\u00a0 Cara first wrote the winning story, &#8220;Ostracita,&#8221; for a workshop with Leslie Epstein here at BU. \u00a0The piece\u00a0will automatically be nominated for the Pushcart Prize as a condition of the contest. Congrats, Cara! and we&#8217;ll keep our fingers crossed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,4163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031"}],"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=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2048,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}