POETS ONLINE TALKING ABOUT COFFEE: RION SCOTT Would you rather drive a really fast car or drink a really strong coffee? I’d rather stick a needle in my eye than drink a really strong coffee. Coffee is made when the devil passes water. Tea, however, is the true blood of the living God. Read the […]
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’13 Fellow Amina Gautier was recently interviewed on FIRST DRAFT for Aspen Public Radio. Click on the link below to listen to the show, and also enjoy a second recording of outtakes from the show: http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/first-draft-amina-gautier
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The Writers’ Workshop and The Rona Jaffe Foundation are delighted to announce that the 2015-2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing has been awarded to Monica West, who will enroll in the program’s Graduate Fiction Workshop this fall. The fellowship, which pays tuition and a generous stipend, is granted each year to a first-year woman student […]
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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 […]
No, you couldn’t be at Kimbilio 2015, but you can read the piece that Deesha shared at the Fellow’s reading: HOW CAN YOU BE MAD AT SOMEONE WHO’S DYING OF CANCER How can you be mad at someone who’s dying of cancer? It helps if you don’t yet know she’s dying, if you think the doctors are just […]
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Southern Methodist University is building a supportive relationship between black fiction writers and an SMU sister campus in Taos, N.M. Black fiction writers are encouraged to consider attending future sessions of the Kimbilio Retreat at the SMU-in-Taos campus. Participants are winding up this year’s retreat, which began Sunday and ends Saturday. The campus, bearing low, […]
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Ravi will be a featured presenter at the Kimbilio/SMU Litfest Reading on October 15th. Save the date! The Burden of History: an Interview with Ravi Howard “Growing up in Montgomery, I heard stories about the Civil Rights Movement from people who never became famous. That experience had an impact on my storytelling.” by SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS […]
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A RAMADAN TALE Near the end of the first day of my third Ramadan, Omar went to the store as the sun set and returned at the brink of the moon, bearing everything I requested except the dried fruit. I specifically said dried apricots and raisins. When he left I had just started to grow […]
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Rion Amilcar Scott (’14) Interviewed in QUEEN’S MOB TEAHOUSE
POETS ONLINE TALKING ABOUT COFFEE: RION SCOTT Would you rather drive a really fast car or drink a really strong coffee? I’d rather stick a needle in my eye than drink a really strong coffee. Coffee is made when the devil passes water. Tea, however, is the true blood of the living God. Read the […]
A Letter from Congress
Received with pride on behalf of the Kimbilio community.
Amina Gautier (’13) on Aspen Public Radio
’13 Fellow Amina Gautier was recently interviewed on FIRST DRAFT for Aspen Public Radio. Click on the link below to listen to the show, and also enjoy a second recording of outtakes from the show: http://aspenpublicradio.org/post/first-draft-amina-gautier
Monica West (’14) Awarded Jaffe Fellowship
The Writers’ Workshop and The Rona Jaffe Foundation are delighted to announce that the 2015-2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Creative Writing has been awarded to Monica West, who will enroll in the program’s Graduate Fiction Workshop this fall. The fellowship, which pays tuition and a generous stipend, is granted each year to a first-year woman student […]
Christi Cartwright (’13) reviews THE STAR SIDE OF BIRD HILL
Dolen Perkins-Valdez Interviewed by Lauren Francis-Sharma
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 […]
Deesha Phillaw in Full Grown People
No, you couldn’t be at Kimbilio 2015, but you can read the piece that Deesha shared at the Fellow’s reading: HOW CAN YOU BE MAD AT SOMEONE WHO’S DYING OF CANCER How can you be mad at someone who’s dying of cancer? It helps if you don’t yet know she’s dying, if you think the doctors are just […]
Kimbilio in the Dallas Morning News!
Southern Methodist University is building a supportive relationship between black fiction writers and an SMU sister campus in Taos, N.M. Black fiction writers are encouraged to consider attending future sessions of the Kimbilio Retreat at the SMU-in-Taos campus. Participants are winding up this year’s retreat, which began Sunday and ends Saturday. The campus, bearing low, […]
Ravi Howard Interviewed in Fiction Writers Review
Ravi will be a featured presenter at the Kimbilio/SMU Litfest Reading on October 15th. Save the date! The Burden of History: an Interview with Ravi Howard “Growing up in Montgomery, I heard stories about the Civil Rights Movement from people who never became famous. That experience had an impact on my storytelling.” by SEBASTIAN MATTHEWS […]
Rion Amilcar Scott (’13) in SFWP
A RAMADAN TALE Near the end of the first day of my third Ramadan, Omar went to the store as the sun set and returned at the brink of the moon, bearing everything I requested except the dried fruit. I specifically said dried apricots and raisins. When he left I had just started to grow […]