{"id":383,"date":"2011-03-28T17:47:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=383"},"modified":"2011-03-31T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T17:01:12","slug":"j-kevin-shushtari-has-won-the-2011-editors-prize-at-meridian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2011\/03\/28\/j-kevin-shushtari-has-won-the-2011-editors-prize-at-meridian\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Kevin Shushtari has won the 2011 Editors&#8217; Prize at Meridian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readmeridian.org\/?p=520\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-397\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2011\/03\/J.-Kevin-Shushtari-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"J. Kevin Shushtari\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2011\/03\/J.-Kevin-Shushtari-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2011\/03\/J.-Kevin-Shushtari-1006x1024.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2011\/03\/J.-Kevin-Shushtari.jpg 1417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/readmeridian.org\/?p=520\">Meridian<\/a><\/em>, the Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia, has awarded J. Kevin Shushtari the 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/readmeridian.org\/?p=520\">Editors&#8217; Prize<\/a> for his story &#8220;Illegal Dreams.&#8221; Kevin is a 2010 graduate of the MFA in Fiction program here at Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the winner of the <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glimmertrainpress.com\/writer\/html\/index2.asp?action=finalists\">July 2010 <em>Glimmer Train<\/em> Very Short Fiction Award<\/a> for his story, \u201cThe Vast Garden of Strangers&#8221; and is a <\/span>recipient of the Forugh Farrokhzad Fellowship Award: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermontstudiocenter.org\/vsc-announces-new-forugh-farrokhzad-fellowship\/\">http:\/\/www.vermontstudiocenter.org\/vsc-announces-new-forugh-farrokhzad-fellowship\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Illegal Dreams&#8221; will appear in the May 2011 issue of <em>Meridian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>Photo credit: Howard Romero, The Vermont Studio Center<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"\/\/\/Users\/matthewyost\/Library\/Caches\/TemporaryItems\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meridian, the Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia, has awarded J. Kevin Shushtari the 2011 Editors&#8217; Prize for his story &#8220;Illegal Dreams.&#8221; Kevin is a 2010 graduate of the MFA in Fiction program here at Boston University. He was also the winner of the July 2010 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award for his story, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383"}],"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=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}