{"id":832,"date":"2013-03-05T17:20:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=832"},"modified":"2013-03-05T17:20:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T20:20:06","slug":"cara-bayles-named-a-finalist-in-the-tennessee-williamsnew-orleans-literary-festival-fiction-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2013\/03\/05\/cara-bayles-named-a-finalist-in-the-tennessee-williamsnew-orleans-literary-festival-fiction-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Cara Bayles named a finalist in the Tennessee Williams\/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/Bayles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/Bayles-224x300.jpg\" title=\"Bayles\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-722\" height=\"300\" width=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/Bayles-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/Bayles-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2013\/01\/Bayles.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Ostrita,&#8221; a story by our current MFA in Fiction student <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2013\/01\/31\/a-story-by-cara-bayles-in-meridian\/\">Cara Bayles<\/a>, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennesseewilliams.net\/announcing-the-results-of-the-5th-annual-fiction-contest\">named one of eight finalists in the 5th Annual Tennessee Williams\/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest<\/a>. For 25 years, the Tennessee Williams Festival has celebrated the rich  literary history of New Orleans. This year&#8217;s fiction contest was\u00a0 judged by the Pulitzer Prize winning author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelcunninghamwriter.com\/\">Michael Cunningham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Cara!<\/p>\n<p>Cara Bayles is an MFA candidate in Fiction at Boston University, where she worked as a Teaching Fellow last semester. After majoring in Film Studies and English at Wesleyan University, she worked for five years as an award-winning journalist, covering the streets of Boston and the swamps of Louisiana. Her fiction has appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/readmeridian.org\/?cat=9\">Meridian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tropmag.com\/author\/cara-bayles\/\">Trop Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ostrita,&#8221; a story by our current MFA in Fiction student Cara Bayles, has been named one of eight finalists in the 5th Annual Tennessee Williams\/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest. For 25 years, the Tennessee Williams Festival has celebrated the rich literary history of New Orleans. This year&#8217;s fiction contest was\u00a0 judged by the Pulitzer [&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\/832"}],"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=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}