{"id":2044,"date":"2015-10-29T16:54:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T20:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2015-10-30T09:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T13:52:06","slug":"nell-stevens-memoir-to-be-published-by-picador-among-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2015\/10\/29\/nell-stevens-memoir-to-be-published-by-picador-among-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Nell Stevens’ memoir to be published by Picador, among others"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Nell<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re thrilled to announce that Nell Stevens (Fiction 2013) has sold her book\u00a0to Picador in the UK, Doubleday in the US, and Knopf in Canada! \u00a0The book, called\u00a0Bleaker House,\u00a0<\/em>is part memoir, part travelogue, and part short story collection. \u00a0It\u00a0documents Nell’s time\u00a0in the Falklands\u00a0as she desperately tries–and fails–to write a novel, navigates intense loneliness, and comes up with ridiculous \u00a0processes\u00a0to keep herself sane on isolated Bleaker Island.<\/p>\n

Nell says, “Writing Bleaker House<\/em> gave me the chance to rehabilitate and laugh at an experience that felt, at times, like a disaster \u2013 its publication with Picador is a great happy ending to that adventure.”<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Nell! \u00a0We can’t wait to read about your adventure.<\/p>\n

Nell Stevens has a First in English and Creative Writing from Warwick, after which she went on to study Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard, and to receive a Marcia Trimble Fellowship and the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award for her MFA in Fiction at Boston University. She is currently researching a PhD in Victorian literature at King\u2019s College London. She was a finalist in the 2011 Elle <\/em>magazine Writing Talent Contest, and a runner up in both the 2014 Mslexia Memoir Competition and the 2015 Mslexia Short Story Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re thrilled to announce that Nell Stevens (Fiction 2013) has sold her book\u00a0to Picador in the UK, Doubleday in the US, and Knopf in Canada! \u00a0The book, called\u00a0Bleaker House,\u00a0is part memoir, part travelogue, and part short story collection. \u00a0It\u00a0documents Nell’s time\u00a0in the Falklands\u00a0as she desperately tries–and fails–to write a novel, navigates intense loneliness, and comes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,8790],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044"}],"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=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2050,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}