ALT TEXT: Non-fiction: Culture/Pop Culture
Brooklyn White-Grier's BELOW THE BELT: BEHIND BEEFS BETWEEN WOMEN IN RAP, chronicling the musical history of rap beefs from the Roxanne Wars, to Fox v. Kim, to our current moment with Megan Thee Stallion v. Drake v. Kendrick Lamar, examining the structural and societal issues that are present for not only Black women in the entertainment industry, but for Black women at large, to Makayla Tabron at Amistad, by Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary.
ALT TEXT: Children's / Young Adult Fiction
Board Chair of Kimbilio, David Haynes's 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, the classic comic coming of age story of Marshall Fields Finney, a charmingly shady black teenager who is surrounded by love that he struggles to make sense of, selected in 1994 by the American Library Association as one of the Best Books for Young Adults and with a new foreword by Jamel Brinkley, author of A Lucky Man: Stories, finalist for the National Book Award and a Kimbilo fellow, to Elda Rotor at Penguin Classics, in an exclusive submission, for publication in spring 2023, by Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary (NA).
ALT TEXT: Knopf Canada Launches Alchemy; Soft Skull Partners With Kimbilio
June 1, 2022 By Katy Hershberger
Knopf Canada has launched Alchemy, a new publishing program led by poet and novelist Dionne Brand. Brand will work with publishing director Lynn Henry and publisher Martha Kanya-Forstner to publish two-to-three fiction and nonfiction titles per year.
Elsewhere, Soft Skull Press will partner with fiction writing community Kimbilio, “acquiring up to two books a year from Kimbilio fellows and faculty members” over the next three years, with the first title publishing in late 2023. Editor-in-chief Mensah Demary will select the manuscripts, which will receive a publishing contract and $10,000 prize. Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary represented the partnership. Established in 2012, Kimbilio is “a community of writers and scholars committed to developing, empowering and sustaining fiction writers from the African diaspora and their stories.”
ALT TEXT: FICTION / DEBUT Stacy Nathaniel Jackson's THE EPHEMERA COLLECTOR, set in near future Los Angeles, in which a black archivist and writer employed at the esteemed Huntington Library is forced to trust her sentient adaptive technology when she finds herself in the middle of a violent internal plot to destroy her life and work, to Gina Iaquinta at Liveright by Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary (NA).
ALT TEXT: NON FICTION/ ANTHOLOGY
Author of TRACING THE HORSE, Diana Marie Delgado's LIKE A HAMMER ACROSS THE PAGE: POETS ON MASS INCARCERATION IN AMERICA, an anthology of contemporary original poetry supported by the Ford Foundation's Art for Justice Fund and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, from Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Hanif Abdurraqib, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Nicole Sealey, Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Raquel Salas Rivera, Nikky Finney, Patrick Rosal, Angel Nafis, Patricia Smith, Sin á Tes Souhaits, Randall Horton, Evie Shockley, John Murillo and Natalie Diaz, to Maya Marshall at Haymarket Books, for publication in spring 2024, by Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary (world English).A collection of deal reports represented by Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary.