{"id":2804,"date":"2020-07-15T11:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2020-07-15T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:39:59","slug":"val-otarod-receives-st-botolph-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2020\/07\/15\/val-otarod-receives-st-botolph-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Val Otarod receives St. Botolph grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2020\/07\/15\/val-otarod-receives-st-botolph-grant\/img-3366\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2020\/07\/IMG-3366-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-3366\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2020\/07\/IMG-3366-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2020\/07\/IMG-3366.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re happy to announce that Val Otarod (Fiction &#8217;20)\u00a0 received an <a href=\"http:\/\/sbcfboston.beyondbracketsandpixels.com\/artist-awards\/emerging-artist-award\/\">Emerging Artists Award<\/a> this spring!\u00a0 Given by the St. Botolph Club in Boston, this grant is one of New England&#8217;s most prestigious, and supports musicians and visual artists as well as writers.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;re very proud to have had several St. Botolph award recipients from our program over the years, including Duy Doan (Poetry &#8217;10), Kimberly Elkins (Fiction &#8217;09), Neshat Khan (Fiction &#8217;18), Jillian Jackson (Fiction &#8217;15), and Grace Yun (Fiction &#8217;18)!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Val!\u00a0 We&#8217;re proud of you.<\/p>\n<p>Val Otarod\u00a0is a writer and editor from Scranton, Pennsylvania. She is currently completing her MFA at Boston University, where she is the 2019-2020 Leslie Epstein Fellow and an intern at <em>AGNI<\/em> magazine. Previously, she worked in the children\u2019s publishing group at Macmillan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re happy to announce that Val Otarod (Fiction &#8217;20)\u00a0 received an Emerging Artists Award this spring!\u00a0 Given by the St. Botolph Club in Boston, this grant is one of New England&#8217;s most prestigious, and supports musicians and visual artists as well as writers.\u00a0\u00a0We&#8217;re very proud to have had several St. Botolph award recipients from our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,620],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804"}],"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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}