 STORY Read Kirk’s story “Tapioca” in the November, 2022 issue of Story magazine.  Conjunctions Read Kirk’s hybrid work "Scenarium" as an Online Exclusive at Conjunctions.com.  New England Review New England Review editor Carolyn Kuebler calls Kirk’s story "Banquo’s Ghost" "an astonishing piece of writing." >>Order  The Florida Review Read Kirk's Editor's Award-winning essay "Skin the Bunny" in the 2020 issue of the Florida Review. >>Order  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 |
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What people say:“I am a long-time fan of Kirk Wilson's darkly funny, slyly philosophical, and wonderfully surprising stories, each of which finds its own precise, fresh language to orbit a mystery. Emily Dickinson rises again from a box labeled ‘Inflatable Immortals,’ a hard-drinking nun hears confessions, Shirley Temple routes her sparkling undead voice through cemetery light, a God-haunted couple flees the apocalypse for Dallas, and a goat's uncanny eye reveals how much exists ‘outside the little circus ring of things you can perceive.’ Really, that just scratches the surface of what Wilson can make live with his perfectly tuned sentences. Out of Season is pure pleasure from a uniquely gifted writer.” “Who else writes with such twisted light? Kirk Wilson’s Out of Season reminds us that the supernatural is in our marrow, in stories that are at once unruly, intelligent, funny, consecrated, doomed, and rich with plants and animals. They feel a lot like the world right now, and they’re exquisite.” “Each of these wildly creative stories of loss and redemption opens new windows onto the human soul. Readers will find tales both haunting and complex, eerie and deeply imagined, reminiscent in ways of the inventive, agile fictions of David Means and Lauren Groff. Kirk Wilson hits for the literary fences with this stellar collection. I can’t wait to read more from him.” |
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What's New:Kirk’s novel in progress Subtraction was shortlisted for the First Pages Prize. First Pages is an international award created in conjunction with the Stockholm Writers Festival.In “Tapioca,” an eccentric botanist stands in the way of a massive luxury development project. Find out what happens in the November, 2022 issue of Story. Conjunctions has published Kirk’s hybrid work “Scenarium” as an Online Exclusive at Conjunctions.com. “Scenarium” re-imagines moments in the life and times of confidential informants Robert Walser, Sir Francis Drake, The Duke of Bourbon, Buddha, Joseph Stalin, and Cabeza de Vaca The Academy of American Poets featured Kirk’s poem “Gifts” in their Poem-a-Day series during National Poetry Month (April, 2022). Kirk reads poems from SONGBOX at Voetica.com. Kirk’s short story collection OUT OF SEASON is the winner of the 2021 Elixir Press Fiction Award. The collection will launch in January, 2023. Kirk’s poetry collection SONGBOX is now available through your favorite bookstore…or through an order via the links on this page. Read excerpts from SONGBOX in the September/October print issue of The Texas Observer, and online in The Banyan Review. 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. |