{"id":260,"date":"2010-10-04T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=260"},"modified":"2010-11-16T12:45:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:45:44","slug":"kevin-shushtari-wins-the-july-2010-glimmer-train-very-short-fiction-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2010\/10\/04\/kevin-shushtari-wins-the-july-2010-glimmer-train-very-short-fiction-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Shushtari wins the July 2010 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-261\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2010\/10\/j-kevin-shushtari-180.jpg\" alt=\"j-kevin-shushtari-180\" width=\"180\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Congratulations to J. Kevin Shushtari, a May 2009 graduate of the MFA program in Fiction here at BU.\u00a0 Kevin has just won the\u00a0 July 2010 <em>Glimmer Train<\/em> Very Short Fiction Award for his story, &#8220;The Vast Garden of Strangers.&#8221; <\/span>He will also contribute an essay to <em>Glimmer Train<\/em>\u2019s next edition of the <em>Glimmer Train Bulletin<\/em>, their print resource for writers, which consists of tips and techniques from their award-winning contributors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glimmer Train&#8217;s<br \/>\nVery Short Fiction Award &#8212; July 2010<br \/>\nTop 3 Winners And Finalists<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1st-place winner:<br \/>\nJ. Kevin Shushtari for &#8220;The Vast Garden of Strangers&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2nd-place winner:<br \/>\nGraham Arnold for &#8220;The Story Is in The Reflection&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>3rd-place winner:<br \/>\nNahal Suzanne Jamir for &#8220;In Perfect English&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.glimmertrainpress.com\/writer\/html\/index2.asp?action=finalists\" target=\"_blank\"><span>http:\/\/www.glimmertrainpress.com\/writer\/<\/span>html\/index2.asp?action=finalists<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glimmertrain.com\/writersask.html\">http:\/\/www.glimmertrain.com\/writersask.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to J. Kevin Shushtari, a May 2009 graduate of the MFA program in Fiction here at BU.\u00a0 Kevin has just won the\u00a0 July 2010 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for his story, &#8220;The Vast Garden of Strangers.&#8221; He will also contribute an essay to Glimmer Train\u2019s next edition of the Glimmer Train Bulletin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[620,4163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260"}],"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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}