ROMEO NO. 3 Robert don’t need no help pulling girls, now. But when the Dream Date came to Burrell for its Hometown Hunks series, I just had to jump at my chance. See, I’m the type of brother that’s always taking chances. Be it quitting school to become an entrepreneur—because I’m going to have my […]
Congratulations to Amina Gautier (’13) on the publication of her third collection of short stories. THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction. It’s available now, and visit Amina Gautier on the Web to find out about readings and events near you.
THE SATURDAY RUMPUS INTERVIEW: ANGELA FLOURNOY BY DEESHA PHILYAW February 13th, 2016 As a faculty member at the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction’s summer 2015 retreat in Taos, writer Angela Flournoy delivered a craft talk entitled “Talk Isn’t Cheap” that was part literary, part musicology, and 100% unexpected. She shared that Stevie Wonder’s 1973 […]
Amina’s Introduction: I read Ravi Howard’s debut novel Like Trees, Walking a little late. As in summer 2015 late. Some seven years after it was originally published and had already won the Ernest Gaines Award and had been named a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award. But it wasn’t the list of accolades that made me […]
Daddy’s Boy by Dennis Norris II January 18, 2016 Art by Katelin Kinney 1. Open your mouth. Sing, boy. Rise up from your pew and praise Him. Take your hands off your hips. Don’t dance, don’t smile, just clap. Firm up those wrists and sing. Your mouth is His. Those lips? That voice? Speaking of […]
CORNROWS Lydia took the rat tail end of the comb and slid it over her daughter’s scalp. The hair’s thickness reminded Lydia of the blue wildrye that Rochelle had braided in the woods behind the domestic violence shelter where they currently lived. “Public art,” Rochelle had said about the closed lotus formation that emerged in […]
The National Book Foundation has named Angela to it’s prestigious annual 5 UNDER 35 list. Congratulations Angela! Read More Here: http://www.nationalbook.org/5under35_2015_flournoy.html#.Vg6M5xO6feS
2015 Kimbilio Faculty Member’s novel The Turner House has been longlisted for the National Book Award. Everyone in the Kimbilio family congratulates Angela for this well-deserved recognition.
