She was the 2009/2010 Poet in Residence for the Alice Lloyd Hall Scholar’s Program at the University of Michigan. In 2010 she received a Kresge Fellowship. In 2009 she was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her work will appear or has appeared in numerous journals, and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2010, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, among others.
Vievee Francis is the author of two books Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University, 2006) and Horse in the Dark (winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Poetry Prize, forthcoming August 31, 2012). Will you be in or near Bloomington, Indiana next Friday, March 30th? If your answer is yes, be sure to mark your calendars! IR contributors Vievee Francis, Roxane Gay, and Mary Hamilton will be reading at 8pm at the Bloomington Playwrights Project, and you’re invited!
I take pictures of everything, so don’t be alarmed. You can hear our long-form interview on The Bluecast (forthcoming!), or read it below. I was lucky to get to sit down with her when she came to Bloomington for IR‘s 2nd Annual Blue Light Reading. Tags: 2014 Fiction Prize, Roxane Gay Roxane Gay: Where There’s Wit, and Also Darknessįrom her gut-wrenching short stories to her incisive humor pieces to her no-bullshit cultural criticism, Roxane Gay is a writer who writes in many forms, all brilliantly. Read on to find out some of the (many, many) reasons we swoon for her and why you should too! In honor of all of this synchronicity we give you 14 reasons why we love this year’s final judge, Roxane Gay. It’s 2014, we’ve got 14K followers on Twitter, there’s just under 14 days left to submit to our Fiction Prize. Tags: 2014 Fiction Prize, fiction, Great News, Roxane Gay 14 Reasons Why We Love Roxane Gay The story artfully reveals, among other things, how good intentions are not nearly enough to solve the very real problems of the world.” Gay has this to say about the winning piece: “The Passeur is a subtle and smart story about what it really looks like when “well meaning” Westerners try to insert themselves into countries with fraught and violent climates. Thanks to all who submitted their work for consideration and made this year’s 2014 Fiction Prize possible.Ģ014 Indiana Review Fiction Prize Winner: All work was read anonymously and closely by our editors. We received more than 500 submissions, a record number of outstanding quality and variety. Judge Roxane Gay has selected “The Passuer,” by Erin Lyons, as the winner of Indiana Review‘s 2014 Fiction Prize! Lyons’ story will appear in the 2015 Summer issue of Indiana Review.
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