THE SATURDAY RUMPUS INTERVIEW: ANGELA FLOURNOY BY DEESHA PHILYAW February 13th, 2016 As a faculty member at the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction’s summer 2015 retreat in Taos, writer Angela Flournoy delivered a craft talk entitled “Talk Isn’t Cheap” that was part literary, part musicology, and 100% unexpected. She shared that Stevie Wonder’s 1973 […]
The National Book Foundation has named Angela to it’s prestigious annual 5 UNDER 35 list. Congratulations Angela! Read More Here: http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_flournoy.html#.Vg6M5xO6feS
2015 Kimbilio Faculty Member’s novel The Turner House has been longlisted for the National Book Award. Everyone in the Kimbilio family congratulates Angela for this well-deserved recognition.
Congratulations to Kimbilio Faculty Member Angela Flournoy. Her terrific novel THE TURNER HOUSE has just been named to the Center for Fiction’s shortlist for the 2015 First Novel Prize.
From Salon: It has been five years since the introduction of Dolen Perkins-Valdez to the literary world. “Wench,” her debut novel, hit the New York Times Bestsellers List in the winter of 2011 to the drumbeat of both spectacular reviews and the savvy use of what were then fledgling marketing tools, Twitter and Facebook. Since […]
