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Interview with Kimberly King Parsons: 2016 Fiction Prize Winner

 The 2017 Fiction Prize is open September 1 through October 31! In this interview, the 2016 Fiction Prize winner, Kimberly King Parsons, discusses the real/surreal divide of “Nothing Before Something,” writerly obsessions, and advice to those submitting pieces for this year’s Fiction Prize.

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Fiction by Kimberly King Parsons has been published or is forthcoming in Best Small Fictions 2017, No Tokens, New South, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Her literary criticism has appeared in Bookforum, Time Out New York, Fanzine, and elsewhere. She was the winner of the 2016 Indiana Review Fiction Prize, placed second in the Joyland Open Border Fiction Prize, and was runner-up in the 2017 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest. Find her at kimberlykingparsons.com

 

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2016 Twitter Contest #IRrewind Winners!

After looking over all of your fantastic tweets, Indiana Review has selected a winner for the #IRrewind contest! The winner will receive an IR Prize Pack and free entry into our 2016 Fiction Prize contest.

THE WINNER IS:

All of the rewinds were so good that we couldn’t just pick one, so this year we also have a runner-up who will receive an IR Prize Pack as well!

THE RUNNER-UP IS:

https://twitter.com/Georgia_Jackson/status/788046997391540224

A great, big thank you to all of you who submitted! We had a lot of fun reading through all of your hilarious literary rewinds.

Don’t be deterred if you didn’t win this contest, as there is still time to submit to our 2016 Fiction Prize judged by Aimee Bender which closes OCT 31st at MIDNIGHT EST!

 

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Interview with 2016 Fiction Prize Judge Aimee Bender

Our 2016 Fiction Prize Judge is Aimee Bender, author of five books including the short story collection The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a New York Times notable book. In this interview, she discusses writing process, the importance of sound, and words of advice for Fiction Prize submitters.

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Aimee Bender is the author of five books,aimeebender2including The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. Her short fiction has been published in Granta, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, and more, as well as heard on This American Life and Selected Shorts. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches creative writing at USC.

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