{"id":2820,"date":"2020-08-04T17:07:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T21:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2820"},"modified":"2020-08-06T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:16:01","slug":"ben-jackson-wins-second-place-in-american-shorter-fiction-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2020\/08\/04\/ben-jackson-wins-second-place-in-american-shorter-fiction-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Jackson wins second place in American Short(er) Fiction contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2020\/08\/04\/ben-jackson-wins-second-place-in-american-shorter-fiction-contest\/author10-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2821\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2020\/08\/author10-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"author10 (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2020\/08\/author10-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2020\/08\/author10-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2020\/08\/author10-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Jackson (Fiction 2018)\u00a0 published a story in\u00a0<em>American Short Fiction<\/em>!\u00a0 &#8220;Karst&#8221; won second place in\u00a0<em>ASF&#8217;<\/em>s American Short(er) Fiction contest.\u00a0 Ben says that the story emerged from his relationship with his grandmother.\u00a0 Read\u00a0&#8220;Karst&#8221; (or hear Ben read it)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/americanshortfiction.org\/new\/karst\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Ben!<\/p>\n<p>Ben Jackson\u2019s writing has appeared in the <em>London Review of Books, American Short Fiction<\/em> online, the <em>Los Angeles Review of Books, West Branch<\/em>, the <em>Awl<\/em> and the <em>Guardian<\/em>, among others. He received an MFA in fiction from Boston University, and he\u2019s working on a novel set in California and in Ireland, where he grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Jackson (Fiction 2018)\u00a0 published a story in\u00a0American Short Fiction!\u00a0 &#8220;Karst&#8221; won second place in\u00a0ASF&#8217;s American Short(er) Fiction contest.\u00a0 Ben says that the story emerged from his relationship with his grandmother.\u00a0 Read\u00a0&#8220;Karst&#8221; (or hear Ben read it)\u00a0here. Congratulations, Ben! Ben Jackson\u2019s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, American Short Fiction online, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,620,4163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820"}],"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=2820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2820\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}