Amina Gautier’s story “Persophone” was selected as the first place winner in the 54th New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction contest. Gautier will receive $1,000 and publication both online and in print. Here’s a taste: How his hand came up to meet mine, breaking through the dense, rich soil, cupping the roots and bulb of […]
From LITHUB, a conversation with Asali Solomon about The Days of Afrekete, the unexpected discovery that she’s a funny writer, and trying to impart wisdom to students while she’s still learning too. Asali Solomon on Writing Fiction as a Process of Discovery
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From the Granum Foundation Website: Congratulations to Kima Jones, winner of the 2022 Granum Foundation Prize. Kima Jones’s writing has appeared nationally in GQ, Guernica, Poets & Writers, and McSweeney’s. Her short story, “Nine,” received notable mention in Best American Science Fiction 2015, and her hybrid poem, “Homegoing AD,” appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading […]
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It somehow seems that Percival Everett, one of the most inimitable and distinct voices in contemporary American fiction, who has been a finalist for some of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes, is still largely unknown to mainstream readers. It’s impossible to resist reading that fact into the symbolism of the publicity photo on the […]
Lalita Rattapong’s New Microwave I’m having trouble with Lalita Rattapong’s new microwave, issues with distance. Like, can the neighbors feel the universe fold in on itself whenever she reheats leftover panang? Do they hear time collide, past in present, echoes from a world older than the one they thought they knew, screeching in […]
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Perhaps this sounds like Saunders has reached his old prophet stage and is yelling truths from a carved stone tablet, but it is not that at all. Saunders remains allergic to the polemical. In the past, sitting down to didactically write about things that angered him led to failed stories, he says. Saunders, who describes […]
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Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier Wins New Millennium Fiction Contest
Amina Gautier’s story “Persophone” was selected as the first place winner in the 54th New Millennium Award for Flash Fiction contest. Gautier will receive $1,000 and publication both online and in print. Here’s a taste: How his hand came up to meet mine, breaking through the dense, rich soil, cupping the roots and bulb of […]
Kimbilio Faculty Member Asali Solomon on Writing Fiction
From LITHUB, a conversation with Asali Solomon about The Days of Afrekete, the unexpected discovery that she’s a funny writer, and trying to impart wisdom to students while she’s still learning too. Asali Solomon on Writing Fiction as a Process of Discovery
Kimbilio Fellow Kima Jones Wins Granum Foundation Prize
From the Granum Foundation Website: Congratulations to Kima Jones, winner of the 2022 Granum Foundation Prize. Kima Jones’s writing has appeared nationally in GQ, Guernica, Poets & Writers, and McSweeney’s. Her short story, “Nine,” received notable mention in Best American Science Fiction 2015, and her hybrid poem, “Homegoing AD,” appears in Best American Nonrequired Reading […]
Kimbilio Faculty Member Jacinda Townsend Wins the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellent
The Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner for Literary Excellence Read more at this link: https://ernestjgainesaward.org/gaines-award-winner
Kimbilio Fellow LaToya Watkins Interviewed by The Millions
Who Carries the History?: The Millions Interviews LaToya Watkins
Kimbilio Faculty Member Asali Solomon Interviews Percival Everett
It somehow seems that Percival Everett, one of the most inimitable and distinct voices in contemporary American fiction, who has been a finalist for some of the world’s most prestigious literary prizes, is still largely unknown to mainstream readers. It’s impossible to resist reading that fact into the symbolism of the publicity photo on the […]
From Good River Review, A “Revived” Story from Kimbilio Fellow Donald Quist
Lalita Rattapong’s New Microwave I’m having trouble with Lalita Rattapong’s new microwave, issues with distance. Like, can the neighbors feel the universe fold in on itself whenever she reheats leftover panang? Do they hear time collide, past in present, echoes from a world older than the one they thought they knew, screeching in […]
Kimbilio Fellow Jonathan Escoffery on WBUR’s Here & Now
George Saunders: Still Evolving
Perhaps this sounds like Saunders has reached his old prophet stage and is yelling truths from a carved stone tablet, but it is not that at all. Saunders remains allergic to the polemical. In the past, sitting down to didactically write about things that angered him led to failed stories, he says. Saunders, who describes […]
Kimbilio Fellow Sheena Daree Romero on Life in Vermont