Alison Mills Newman’s 1974 Novel FRANCISO Has Been Republished

Alison Mills Newman can’t remember exactly what she was doing that day in Berkeley, Calif. — it was so long ago, the early 1970s — when her novel got discovered for the first time. She knows she’d been writing in the kitchen but got distracted and left. When she got back, her boyfriend was talking […]

From THE NEW YORKER, the Story of H. G. Carrillo’s Invented Life

The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far After the Afro-Cuban writer H. G. Carrillo died, his husband learned that almost everything the writer had shared about his life was made up—including his Cuban identity. READ THE ARTICLE ON THIS LINK  

New Short Stories from Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier

WHY NOT? Why shouldn’t she agree to dinner? She’s known him ever since she moved to Philadelphia for grad school. For years she saw him at the various service projects for which she volunteered. Year after year she stood beside him at the Salvation Army on Girard Avenue on Thanksgiving Day, scooping spoonfuls of stuffing, […]

Congratulations to Kimbilio Fellow Desiree Cooper

Cover Reveal for a Kimbilio Fellow Rachel Eliza Griffith’s Forthcoming Book PROMISE

Cover reveal: See the cover for Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Promise. From LITHUB.  Click on Image to Learn More.

Kimbilio Fellow Sadeqa Johnson Featured on NPR

Kimbilio Fellow Janelle Williams on the Musical Inspirations for GONE LIKE YESTERDAY

“A Plethora of Answers.” Black Music as Nourishment and Inspiration “A Plethora of Answers.” Black Music as Nourishment and Inspiration Hear Janelle read, live and online, for the Kimbilio Reading Series!