insurrections stories rion amilcar scott

Presently he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Maryland. Insurrections: Stories, by Rion Amilcar Scott, University Press of Kentucky, 194 pp. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writing Conference, Kimbilio and the Colgate Writing Conference as well as a 2019 Maryland Individual Artist Award. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Insurrections: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose), Scott, Rion Amilcar, Ver at the best. In Insurrections, Rion Amilcar Scotts lyrical prose authentically portrays individuals growing up and growing old in an African American community. He was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland and earned an MFA from George Mason University where he won the Mary Roberts Rinehart award, a Completion Fellowship and an Alumni Exemplar Award. His story, “Shape-ups at Delilah’s” was published in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. His work has been published in places such as The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Best Small Fictions 2020 and The Rumpus, among others. His debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of the story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019), a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and winner of the 2020 Towson Prize for Literature. Thirteen stories chronicle the way things go for the African-American residents of Cross River. Rion Amilcar Scott reads from his debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), and speaks with Cinder Barnes and Karl Smith.

Insurrections stories rion amilcar scott