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MFA in Boston. All students receive tuition remission, health insurance, and a stipend. Ask about our Global Fellowships and the Translation Seminar.
Boston, MA
Joined January 2015
🥊TONIGHT!🥊 This event is open to program affiliates (and their guests) only.
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📢Attention faculty, students, and alumni: remember that tomorrow is our Favorite Poem Project Reading!📢 Join us in the AGNI Office for an evening of fun, friends, and poems — plus snacks and drinks. This event is open to program affiliates (and their guests) only.
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🤍Join us next month for a reading by award-winning poet and critic William Logan and BU’s own Meg Tyler!🤍 Presented in partnership with the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the Boston University Arts Initiative, and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.
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🍾Lots of great November news came in from our community members — congrats, all! 🍾
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🧑🧑🧒🧒Last night’s Black Box Reading was a blast! 🧑🧑🧒🧒 Thanks to Larry Flynn (Poetry ‘26), Deya Bhattacharya (Fiction ‘26), Heather Thompson-Brenner (Fiction ‘23), and Piper Franckum (Fiction ‘26) for sharing their family-themed work!
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🐞Another reading recommendation from our community has hit the feed!🐞 Poetry student Larry recommends “The Gift” by Li-Young Lee!
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🎃Snapshots from the Creative Writing Program’s Halloween Party!🎃
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📍Please read the attached graphic for news regarding our admissions cycle📍 See our website for more information: https://t.co/oa4mlqGsh0
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🖋️Another community reading recommendation!🖋️ Fiction student Cassidy recommends Joshua Beckman’s poem “[Lying in bed I think about you]”
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🧑🧑🧒🧒Next week!🧑🧑🧒🧒 The Black Box Reading Series is back with a family-themed reading this November! Readers will include Heather Thompson-Brenner (Fiction ‘23), Larry Flynn (Poetry ‘26), Piper Franckum (Fiction ‘26), and Deya Bhattacharya (Fiction ‘26).
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📖As the semester rolls on, we’re asking members of our community to recommend recent reads they’ve enjoyed, obsessed over, and keep coming back to.📖 Today, fiction student Piper recommends David Foster Wallace’s essay “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.”
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📕Come see members of the Boston University Creative Writing community at Boston Book Festival tomorrow!📕
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❤️🔥Current poetry student and multi-genre talent Sanjana Thakur (Poetry ‘26)’s story “Aishwarya Rai,” originally published in Granta, was included in the 2025 edition of Best American Short Stories, edited by Celeste Ng!❤️🔥
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🪽Join our friends at AGNI for a reading — featuring work from alum Askold Melnyczuk (MA ‘78) — on 7 November at 7PM to celebrate the launch of issue 102!🪽 Register here: https://t.co/royCoD0jfS
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🎙️Program alum Heather Thompson-Brenner (Fiction ‘23) is reading at the launch of the new Ploughshares issue this Wednesday, 22 October, at Trident Books at 6PM — join us to cheer her and the other readers on!🎙️ Registration is free but required: https://t.co/9CNNZoqufq
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⚡️The fiction class of 1994 stopped by for a reunion on room 222 — it’s always so wonderful to have members of our community gather here!⚡️
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🦞TONIGHT!🦞 Free and open to the public, followed by a catered reception
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This last month was full of great news for our community members — give them a round of applause! 👏🏼 (1/2)
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