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- Recent social events for our graduate students have included:\n
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- “Submissions and Snacks” \u2014 an evening for students to share snacks and drinks while submitting their creative work for publication<\/span><\/li>\n
- Picnic potluck in Boston Common<\/li>\n
- Watching the Red Sox play in Fenway Park<\/li>\n
- Group trips to the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Cambridge, MA<\/li>\n
- Afternoons at the Museum of Fine Arts and Isabella Steward Gardner Museum<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We believe that a supportive community is integral to the creation of a healthy writing life and do our best to launch our students into the world with a network of student, faculty, and community connections. It’s our goal that each student leave our program with a better understanding of their own craft, but also with a group of trusted readers and an understanding of what next steps make sense for their career and writing practice.<\/p>\n
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Students from the fiction class of 2025 share drinks at a social event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"\"](\"\/creativewriting\/files\/2025\/08\/IMG_0667-400x300.jpg\")
Arielle Kaplan (Poetry ’21), Annaka Saari (Poetry ’21), and Lusia Caycedo-Kimura (Poetry ’13) catch up at an event in 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
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Poetry students from the class of 2021 on a trip to Walden Pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"\"](\"\/creativewriting\/files\/2025\/08\/IMG_3050-400x300.jpg\")
Milica Mijatovi\u0107 (Poetry ’20), Annaka Saari (Poetry ’21), and James Brookes (Poetry ’21) spend time together at the 2023 AWP Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
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The MFA Fiction class of 1994 gathers in room 222 for a reunion The former students are, from left to right: Crouching on floor: Hattie (Schroeder) Llavina, Andrew Lewis Seated in chairs: Emily Newburger, Louie Cronin, Daphne Kalotay, Dan Hurley, Patrice Vidal Standing: John Rosengren, John Shanley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ![\"\"](\"\/creativewriting\/files\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-09-144407-213x300.png\")
Jordyn Perazzo (Poetry ’26) introduces Professor Karl Kirchwey at the inaugural Bay State Road Reading Series event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our graduate students enjoy being a part of the academic community at Boston University and the larger literary community of the city of Boston. Through longstanding programs and new ideas alike, the Creative Writing Program allows them the opportunity to engage with their city and university as students and artists. See below to learn more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19860,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3855,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3727\/revisions\/3855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- “Submissions and Snacks” \u2014 an evening for students to share snacks and drinks while submitting their creative work for publication<\/span><\/li>\n