For the KIRKUS Perspectives column, Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) is in conversation with Robert Jones Jr. (The Prophets), Dantiel W. Moniz (Blood Milk Heat), and Dawnie Walton (The Final Revival of Opal Nev). Read “‘Lifting As We Climb’: A Conversation” at this link: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/black-debut-authors-in-conversation/?fbclid=IwAR1qWxXwFPSUvpiGuzDXzroMtPCPIvNW67YSIqt0VWFu6xJLLREJLHkcAcs
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Kimbilio is proud to announce the establishment of two endowments to support writers at future Kimbilio retreats. The Figueroa Sisters Fellowship will pay retreat expenses for a selected woman writers 50 years of age and older. The Tiffany Austin Fellowship will be offered to a writer of Caribbean descent. The Figueroa Sisters Fellowship has been […]
I have always been captivated by big, grand, absolutist words. Words that name clear edges or hard stops or lines crossed—the finite, unequivocal, forbidden, unforgivable, irrevocable. Words that evoke how something is clear or clear-cut in ways that end confusion or questions. These are words that are almost historic or classical, with cognizable wisdom, that […]
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Danielle Evans has been named 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Recipient by nonprofit the New Literary Project, which was formerly the Simpson Literary Project. Read more at this link: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3226&fbclid=IwAR2BskXFk5njC53ky77QeMfK9Drif04zjOkDMyD3IM9Ie-UgYNocgPH5BYY
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DEAR MISS METROPOLITAN hits the stores in July. And your entries for the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize are due on May 15. Carolyn will be selecting the winner! More information on the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize at this link: Announcing the 2021 Kimbilio National Fiction Prize
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Stories by Kimbilio Faculty Member Asali Solomon and Kimbilio Fellow Jamel Brinkley have been selected for the 2021 anthology. Congratulations to them for this prestigious honor.
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Kimbilio Fellow Tope Folarin has been selected as a winner of a 2021 Whiting Award Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also named to the 2019 Africa39 list of the most promising […]
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Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier’s “Mean to Me” was selected by Robert Olen Butler as a finalist for the 2020 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Read the winning short short at the link below. https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/39-1-amina-gautier
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Kimbilio Fellow Deesha Philyaw in Conversation with Three Debut Fiction Writers
For the KIRKUS Perspectives column, Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) is in conversation with Robert Jones Jr. (The Prophets), Dantiel W. Moniz (Blood Milk Heat), and Dawnie Walton (The Final Revival of Opal Nev). Read “‘Lifting As We Climb’: A Conversation” at this link: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/black-debut-authors-in-conversation/?fbclid=IwAR1qWxXwFPSUvpiGuzDXzroMtPCPIvNW67YSIqt0VWFu6xJLLREJLHkcAcs
KIMBILIO ANNOUNCES TWO RETREAT FELLOWSHIPS
Kimbilio is proud to announce the establishment of two endowments to support writers at future Kimbilio retreats. The Figueroa Sisters Fellowship will pay retreat expenses for a selected woman writers 50 years of age and older. The Tiffany Austin Fellowship will be offered to a writer of Caribbean descent. The Figueroa Sisters Fellowship has been […]
Kimbilio Fellow Ijeoma Njaka writing about Kimbilio Faculty Member Martha Southgate’s THE FALL OF ROME
I have always been captivated by big, grand, absolutist words. Words that name clear edges or hard stops or lines crossed—the finite, unequivocal, forbidden, unforgivable, irrevocable. Words that evoke how something is clear or clear-cut in ways that end confusion or questions. These are words that are almost historic or classical, with cognizable wisdom, that […]
Congratulations to Kimbilio Faculty Member Danielle Evans
Danielle Evans has been named 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Recipient by nonprofit the New Literary Project, which was formerly the Simpson Literary Project. Read more at this link: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=3226&fbclid=IwAR2BskXFk5njC53ky77QeMfK9Drif04zjOkDMyD3IM9Ie-UgYNocgPH5BYY
Fiction Prize Judge Carolyn Ferrell Has a New Book Coming
DEAR MISS METROPOLITAN hits the stores in July. And your entries for the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize are due on May 15. Carolyn will be selecting the winner! More information on the Kimbilio National Fiction Prize at this link: Announcing the 2021 Kimbilio National Fiction Prize
Kimbilio Faculty Member Asali Solomon and Kimbilio Fellow Jamel Brinkley are 2021 O’Henry Prize Winners
Stories by Kimbilio Faculty Member Asali Solomon and Kimbilio Fellow Jamel Brinkley have been selected for the 2021 anthology. Congratulations to them for this prestigious honor.
Congrats to Kimbilio Fellow Desiree C. Bailey on the Publication of her New Book of Poetry
What Noise Against the Cane is the 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets
Congratulations to Kimbilio Fellow and 2021 Whiting Award Winner Tope Folarin
Kimbilio Fellow Tope Folarin has been selected as a winner of a 2021 Whiting Award Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also named to the 2019 Africa39 list of the most promising […]
A New Short Short Story by Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier in SOUTHEASTERN REVIEW
Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier’s “Mean to Me” was selected by Robert Olen Butler as a finalist for the 2020 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Read the winning short short at the link below. https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/39-1-amina-gautier
The Kimbilio National Fiction Prize
THE KIMBILIO NATIONAL FICTION PRIZE Entries Due on May 15th!