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.
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
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 […]
What Noise Against the Cane is the 115th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets
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 […]
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
“Branded” by Cole Lavalais on THE OFFING. Click below.
Kimbilio Fellow Deesha Philyaw is the winner of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. More on the link below.
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
Read “Kraken in Love” at this link: https://trampset.org/the-kraken-in-love-518aa5090d1c
