Announcing the 2021 Kimbilio National Fiction Prize
Published by Four Way Books, The Kimbilio National Fiction Prize is a celebration and affirmation of the best in contemporary fiction. 2021 judge Carolyn Ferrell will make the final selection of an outstanding novel or collection of short stories, which will be published in the spring of 2023. The competition is open to writers of the African Diaspora.
The selected manuscript will be promoted through Kimbilio and Four Way Books social media. The author will read as part of events for both organization, including a visit to Kimbilio’s home city, Saint Louis.
Four Way Books is dedicated to producing and promoting excellent literary publications and to creating opportunities for writers of merit. We believe that the work of writers brings good to the world—understanding, empathy, curiosity, wisdom—and that if we can be the conduit for connecting writers and readers, for making a writer’s life more meaningful by bringing validation to the artist and fine work to public attention, we are spending our days nobly.
The 2021 Judge is novelist and short story writer Carolyn Ferrell:
Carolyn Ferrell is the author of the short-story collection Don’t Erase Me, which was awarded the 1997 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, the John C. Zacharis First Book Award given by Ploughshares, and the Quality Paperback Book Prize for First Fiction. Her stories and essays have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories 2018, edited by Roxane Gay; The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike; Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers,1967 to the Present, edited by Gloria Naylor; Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents, edited by Lise Funderburg; and other places. Her story “Something Street” will be reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 2020, edited by Curtis Sittenfeld. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the Fulbright Association, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Bronx Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Sarah Lawrence College. Since 1996, she has been a faculty member in both the undergraduate and MFA programs at Sarah Lawrence College.
Information about the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize can be found at this link: The Kimbilio National Fiction Prize
