{"id":2253,"date":"2016-08-16T15:56:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T19:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2016-08-16T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T19:57:55","slug":"stacy-mattingly-publishes-essay-in-asymptote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2016\/08\/16\/stacy-mattingly-publishes-essay-in-asymptote\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacy Mattingly publishes essay in Asymptote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/02\/StacyMattingly-ORIG-QUALITY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2015\/02\/StacyMattingly-ORIG-QUALITY.jpg\" alt=\"StacyMattingly--ORIG QUALITY\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1816\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re excited to share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/borders-project-sarajevo-writers-workshop\/\">this piece in\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/15\/borders-project-sarajevo-writers-workshop\/\">Asymptote<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Stacy Mattingly (Fiction 2011)! The Sarajevo Writers\u2019 Workshop and Atlanta\u2019s Narrative Collective (which Stacy founded and co-founded, respectively) came together last fall\u00a0to form The Borders Project. \u00a0In this essay, Stacy follows the Project to their first-ever\u00a0reading, which took place in Atlanta last May. \u00a0A multi-genre literary collaboration, The Borders Project aims to examine all sorts of boundary lines\u2014physical, temporal, emotional, relational, among others\u2014and their implications. Eighteen writers and one translator came together to create work in two languages.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Stacy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacymattingly.com\/\">Stacy Mattingly<\/a> is a U.S. writer and the founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarajevoww.com\/\">Sarajevo Writers\u2019 Workshop<\/a>, a bilingual group of poets and prose writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also co-founded Atlanta\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.narrativecollective.com\/\">Narrative Collective<\/a> with poet L.S. McKee. Stacy holds an MFA in fiction from Boston University, where she was a Marcia Trimble Fellow, a Leslie Epstein Global Fellow, and recipient of the Florence Engel Randall Graduate Fiction Award. She has worked as a coauthor on books including, with Ashley Smith, the New York Times bestseller <em>Unlikely Angel<\/em>, an Atlanta hostage story released last fall as a feature film, <em>Captive<\/em>. Stacy has taught creative writing at Boston University and helped lead the first Narrative Witness exchange for the University of Iowa\u2019s International Writing Program. She has recently completed a first novel, set in the current-day Balkans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to share this piece in\u00a0Asymptote\u00a0by Stacy Mattingly (Fiction 2011)! The Sarajevo Writers\u2019 Workshop and Atlanta\u2019s Narrative Collective (which Stacy founded and co-founded, respectively) came together last fall\u00a0to form The Borders Project. \u00a0In this essay, Stacy follows the Project to their first-ever\u00a0reading, which took place in Atlanta last May. \u00a0A multi-genre literary collaboration, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,1353],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"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=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}