An Excerpt from Kimbilio Fellow Nana Nkweti’s WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS
Kimbilio Fellow Nana Nkwetie’s soon-to-be published novel WALKING ON COWRIE SHELLS is excepted today on BRITTLE PAPER. Read it at the link below.
Announcing the 2021 Recipients of the Community of Writers Kimbilio Scholarships
Congratulations to Kimbilio Fellows Hayward Leach and Darlene Taylor. They have been selected as the first recipients of scholarships to attend the Community of Writers summer workshops. Community of Writers partners with Kimbilio to provide support for our Fellows to participate in their annual summer workshop.
Kimbilio Fellow Deesha Philyaw in Conversation with Three Debut Fiction Writers
For the KIRKUS Perspectives column, Deesha Philyaw (The Secret Lives of Church Ladies) is in conversation with Robert Jones Jr. (The Prophets), Dantiel W. Moniz (Blood Milk Heat), and Dawnie Walton (The Final Revival of Opal Nev). Read “‘Lifting As We Climb’: A Conversation” at this link: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/black-debut-authors-in-conversation/?fbclid=IwAR1qWxXwFPSUvpiGuzDXzroMtPCPIvNW67YSIqt0VWFu6xJLLREJLHkcAcs
Kimbilio Fellow Ijeoma Njaka writing about Kimbilio Faculty Member Martha Southgate’s THE FALL OF ROME
I have always been captivated by big, grand, absolutist words. Words that name clear edges or hard stops or lines crossed—the finite, unequivocal, forbidden, unforgivable, irrevocable. Words that evoke how something is clear or clear-cut in ways that end confusion or questions. These are words that are almost historic or classical, with cognizable wisdom, that […]
Congrats to Kimbilio Fellow Desiree C. Bailey on the Publication of her New Book of Poetry
What Noise Against the Cane is the 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets
Congratulations to Kimbilio Fellow and 2021 Whiting Award Winner Tope Folarin
Kimbilio Fellow Tope Folarin has been selected as a winner of a 2021 Whiting Award Tope Folarin is a Nigerian-American writer based in Washington, DC. He won the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2013 and was shortlisted once again in 2016. He was also named to the 2019 Africa39 list of the most promising […]
A New Short Short Story by Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier in SOUTHEASTERN REVIEW
Kimbilio Fellow Amina Gautier’s “Mean to Me” was selected by Robert Olen Butler as a finalist for the 2020 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest. Read the winning short short at the link below. https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/39-1-amina-gautier
A New Story by Cole Lavalais on THE OFFING
“Branded” by Cole Lavalais on THE OFFING. Click below.
Congratulations to Kimbilio Fellow Deesha Philyaw
Kimbilio Fellow Deesha Philyaw is the winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. More on the link below.
Lyndsey Ellis on Janet Jackson and Finding her Voice
From CATAPULT: All I knew was that here was this woman who looked like the community I loved and interacted with. This is Memory Book a column by Lyndsey Ellis that explores nostalgia at the intersection of race, class, and culture. Read the column at this link: https://catapult.co/stories/janet-jackson-helped-me-find-my-voice-as-a-writer-memory-book-lyndsey-ellis
