{"id":2531,"date":"2018-05-24T10:13:20","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2018-05-24T10:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T14:19:08","slug":"jillian-jackson-publishes-story-in-the-iowa-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2018\/05\/24\/jillian-jackson-publishes-story-in-the-iowa-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Jillian Jackson publishes story in the Iowa Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Jillian Jackson (Fiction ’15) has\u00a0published her story “A Leo, Like Jackie O” in the Spring 2018 issue of\u00a0The Iowa Review<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n

We had a chance to hear from Jillian about her writing process.\u00a0 Here’s what she had to say:<\/p>\n

When I write it usually takes me a long time to fumble through a story and figure out what it’s really about. It’s a VERY inefficient process, but it can be pleasantly surprising, and a lot of the time I end up far from where I started.<\/em><\/p>\n

Where did the idea for the story come from?\u00a0 How did it come together?<\/p>\n

I’m very interested in the supernatural, and this was originally a ghost story: one of the main characters was being haunted. I quickly realized I was in above my head and really could not pull it off, and once I cut the ghost, the writing became much easier. The final version is still about death and loss and memory, but is now 100% realism.<\/em><\/p>\n

What can you tell us about\u00a0The Iowa Review<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Before applying to BU and while I was working on my application I started binge-reading short story anthologies (mostly <\/em>The Best American Short Stories) and I discovered that a lot of the stories I liked the most were from <\/em>The Iowa Review. One of those stories is an all-time favorite of mine: “Lawns” by Mona Simpson. I love the narrator’s voice in “Lawns,” and I reread it a few times while I was working on this. It can be really difficult figuring out where to send something, but I took a chance and thought that it might make sense to send it to <\/em>The Iowa Review. I was obviously beyond thrilled when they accepted it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Congrats, Jillian!\u00a0 We’re looking forward to reading your story!<\/p>\n

Jillian Jackson is a graduate of the MFA program in Fiction at Boston University and the recipient of a St. Botolph Club Foundation\u2019s Emerging Artist Grant. Her work appears or is forthcoming in the Iowa Review, Smokelong Quarterly<\/em>, and others. She lives in Boston, MA, where she teaches writing at Emmanuel College and is at work on a novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jillian Jackson (Fiction ’15) has\u00a0published her story “A Leo, Like Jackie O” in the Spring 2018 issue of\u00a0The Iowa Review! We had a chance to hear from Jillian about her writing process.\u00a0 Here’s what she had to say: When I write it usually takes me a long time to fumble through a story and figure […]<\/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\/2531"}],"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=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}