Kimbilio Fellow Gail Upchurch Selected for the 2022 James Baldwin Literary Award

BROKEN THINGS appears in Issue #3 of Taint, Taint Taint You leave Khalil because he hates your body. Khalil hates your body because it can’t hold on to babies. He’s too nice a guy to say it outright, but every night he leaves a gulf between his body and your own, in the same bed […]

A New Story by Kimbilio Fellow Diana Veiga, Online at Apogee

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Kimbilio Fellow Rosalyn Story on the Inspiration for her New Novel SING HER NAME

How Sissieretta Jones, Celebrated Black Opera Singer, Enshrined Her Own Story

Jacinda Townsend Interviewed for the FIRST DRAFT Podcast

Jacinda Townsend on What It Means to Mother I

Jacinda Townsend Reads @ Kimbilio on June 2nd

Kimbilio Faculty Member Dolen Perkins_Valdez Interviewed on NPR Weekend Edition

Ayesha Rascoe talks to Dolen Perkins-Valdez about her new novel “Take My Hand,” which fictionalizes a 1973 involuntary sterilization case, and about why she’s drawn to history as a novelist.  

Congratulations to Kimbilio Fellow Nana Nkweti

Kimbilio Fellow Nana Nkweti has been selected as one of the 2022 winners of the Whiting Award. The Whiting Awards, established by the Whiting Foundation in 1985 and celebrating their 37th anniversary, remain one of the most esteemed and largest monetary gifts ($50,000) to emerging writers. They are given to recognize early-career achievement and empower […]

The Short Stories of Diane Oliver

Guided by spirits, one overcast morning in October I picked up a copy of Right On! from the unread section of my bookshelf. A Black writing collection edited by Bradford Chambers and Rebecca Moon in 1970, it was a recent gift from a friend who knew well my weakness for African-American fiction anthologies, especially short […]

A New Story By Amina Gautier from KWELI

RERUN If we flip the channels fast enough, we can turn almost anyone Puerto Rican, blurring black and white into Boricua. When we can’t find a good show with a Puerto Rican actor, we make our own, turning the knob selector on the TV as hard and fast as we can, watching all the brown […]