Book Mecca Presents: Rion Amilcar Scott
Channel: Book Mecca
Date: 2020-11-25

Join Book Mecca for a behind the lines conversation with Rion Amilcar Scott, author of "The World Doesn't Require You".
Discover the motivation, inspiration and future of this fabulous author. He is Book Mecca's FIRST male guest and we are more than excited to have him join our Mecca family.
Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of the story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019), a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and winner of the 2020 Towson Prize for Literature and the 2020 nominee for Fiction by the Hurst Wright Foundation. His debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in places such as The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Best Small Fictions 2020 and The Rumpus, among others. His story, “Shape-ups at Delilah’s” was published in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. He was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland and earned an MFA from George Mason University where he won the Mary Roberts Rinehart award, a Completion Fellowship and an Alumni Exemplar Award. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writing Conference, Kimbilio and the Colgate Writing Conference as well as a 2019 Maryland Individual Artist Award. Presently he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Maryland.
Find him on twitter and instagram: @ReeAmilcarScott