Alain-Jules Hirwa‘s most recent work is in Wasafiri and The Carolina Quarterly. They are an MFA candidate at Texas State University.
Content by Alain-Jules Hirwa
Reviews,
It’s the Soul that Needs Surgery: Catherine Klatzker’s You Will Never Be Normal
In her debut novel, You Will Never Be Normal, memoirist, poet, and retired pediatric ICU nurse Catherine Klatzker comes to terms with her split-off “Parts”—her selves that hold dissociated and unprocessed memories.
Reviews,
A Conversation Across Time and Death: A Review of Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger
In Negative Space, writer and editor Lilly Dancyger presents a memoir of growing up and growing stronger in the face of loss.
2020 Clark Prize Finalist Spotlight: Chia-Chia Lin
A finalist for the 2019 National Book Critic Circle’s John Leonard Prize as well as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Chia-Chia Lin’s novel The Unpassing has just been named a finalist for the 2020 L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize, awarded by Texas State University’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Interviews,
Mant Bares speaks with Alain-Jules Hirwa about her story “Lady Sings”
“The story started at the beginning, with the bug that turns out to be a star. I was in Greece with my now-husband, on the island his family is from, and you can see just about every star in the sky out there, along with every bit of refuse burning up in the atmosphere.”