THE TURNER HOUSE is a Finalist for the First Fiction Award
Congratulations to Kimbilio Faculty Member Angela Flournoy. Her terrific novel THE TURNER HOUSE has just been named to the Center for Fiction’s shortlist for the 2015 First Novel Prize.
Brian Gilmore (’14, ’15) in FJORDS REVIEW
Frightful Weather Outside (A You Tube Video) Brian Gilmore (as published in Fjords Review – Black American Special Edition 2015) 2006 Freddie Que dressed up as Santa Claus. Handing out small gifts to kids in one of the worst neighborhoods in the city. People around him passing by looking for a cocaine fix and there […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
Dennis Norris II (’15) in MADCAP REVIEW
UNGRATEFUL, UNAFRAID Joanne wore a pink circle skirt and a ribbon in her hair the day her sister disappeared. She was proud of that skirt, proud that it came all the way from the sixties, dusty but intact in a plastic bag from the attic—booty from a weekend of endlessly ungrateful household chores. Read the full story here: […]
