The Idaho Review In Kirk's story "The Apocalypse, with Breath Mints," an inventor of insecticides encounters God in a convenience store. What could go wrong? Find out in the 2020 issue of the Idaho Review. >>Order This Side of the Divide This 2019 anthology includes one of Kirk's stories, along with work by Tobias Wolff, Chanelle Benz, Nona Caspers, and an introduction by Claire Vaye Watkins. >>Order Crazyhorse Fall 2017 >>Order Issue 92 online River Teeth Spring 2013 >>Order Issue 14.2 online Confrontation Fall 2012 >>Buy online Meridian Spring 2012 >>Buy online The New Guard Literary Review 2011 >>Buy online True Crime Classic: Unsolved >>Buy on Amazon 2011 Anthology: The Wordstock Ten	Read Kirk's Editor's Award-winning essay "Skin the Bunny" in the 2020 issue of the Florida Review. >>Order        Kirk Wilson's work in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry is widely published in literary journals and anthologies. His awards include prizes in all three genres, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. His previous publications include The Early Word, a poetry chapbook from Burning Deck press, and Unsolved, a true crime classic published in six editions in the US and UK. Copyright © 2020 Kirk Wilson	Trio House Press has chosen Kirk's poetry collection SONGBOX for its Trio Award. The collection will be published in 2021. In "Banquo's Ghost," a literary critic's life is interrupted by visits from the child-sized ghost of her ex-husband, in a story written by the fabulist who is the subject of her studies. Check it out in the September, 2020 issue of New England Review. Kirk’s essay “Skin the Bunny” is the winner of The Florida Review Editors’ Award in Creative Nonfiction. The essay is published in the journal's 2020 issue. Earlier, the essay was a finalist for the Wabash Prize in Nonfiction. Read Kirk's story “The Apocalypse, with Breath Mints” in the 2020 issue (#18) of The Idaho Review. Previously, “Apocalypse” was shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize, an international competition based in the UK. Kirk’s poem “Chanson d’Amour” is published in Mudfish 21 as a finalist for the Mudfish Poetry Prize. Kirk's story “The Goat's Eye” was selected for This Side of the Divide, an anthology released in February, 2019 by Baobab Press. Two of Kirk's poems were selected for The 64 Best Poets of 2018, from Black Mountain Press. Two of Kirk's poems will be published in the May, 2019 issue of The Woven Tale.  The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded Kirk a Creative Writing Fellowship for 2018. Kirk’s memoir/essay “Secrets of Kirby Hall” has been published in the Fall 2017 issue of Crazyhorse, as a finalist for the Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize. Kirk is the winner of the New Millennium Award for Non-Fiction. Read the winning story here. A longer version of the winning story was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in the Spring 2013 issue of River Teeth. Kirk's poem "Deus ex Machina" was published in the Fall 2012 issue of Confrontation. Kirk's short story "The Goat's Eye" was published in the Spring, 2012 issue of Meridian. As a finalist in the Machigonne Fiction Contest, "The Story You've Never Heard About Lattorial" was published in the 2011 edition of The New Guard. As a finalist for the 2011 Wordstock Short Fiction Competition, Kirk's short story "The Heart of Things" was included in the anthology "The Wordstock Ten," published by the Wordstock Festival. Read the story here. Kirk's short story "The Coldest Day" was published in the April/May 2012 issue of Midway Journal. Read it here. Kirk's poem "Naming Andromeda" was published in the March 2012 issue of Folly. Read the poem here. Kirk's poem "The Periodic Table" was published in the Fall, 2012 edition of Soundings East. Eleven of Kirk's poems were featured in the 2012 edition of The Langdon Review. Kirk's poem "Rules for Objects" will be published in the 2013 volume of Eclipse.