K. Ibura
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K. Ibura is a writer, painter, and traveler from New Orleans, Louisiana. The middle child of five, she grew up in a hardscrabble neighborhood with oak and fig trees, locusts and mosquitoes, cousins and neighbors. K. Ibura's work delves into spheres of human liberation, human connection, and evolution. She employs speculative fiction and creative nonfiction to take readers through mind-bending journeys into the transcendent, the mystical, and the fantastic.
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Blog
- Real Costs, Real Talk
- Kwanzaa in Senegal
- Let’s Write!
- Vol. 112, The Discipline of Surrender
- Vol. 111, Like Water
- Vol. 110, Is This It?
- Vol. 109: What Are You Privileging?
- Vol. 108: Embracing Vulnerability
- Vol. 107: The Power of Community
- Vol. 106: Hair in the Gate
- Vol. 105: On Fearing the Answers
- 100th Anniversary of the Silent Parade
- Year in Review: 2017
- Vol. 104: Surprising Measures of Growth
- Vol. 103, When Ease Goes
- Vol. 102, Advice for Writers
- Vol. 101, The Boring Wonder of Being Meta About It All
- Vol. 100, On Hunger and How It Necessitates Relentlessness
- Summer Art Sale
- My Writing Process
- Cocksure: Word of the Week for this week’s podcast (Episode 5)
- Vol. 99: Yes, I am a novelist; No, I have not completed a novel
- Episode 4 of K. Ibura’s Podcast Is Up!
- Episode 3 of the new podcast
- Word of the Week, Episode 2 is up!
- New Year, New Project: Word of the Week Podcast
- Vol. 98, Self-Love: Not Easy, But Required
- Vol. 97, Writing: Ancillary Skills Required
- Vol. 96, Writing Requires Mental Fitness
- Vol. 95, Thoughts vs. Reality: A Novel Time Line
- Vol. 94: Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters
- Vol. 93, Wiscon 37
- Vol. 92, Embodiment
- Vol. 91, The Wisdom of the Ages
- Vol. 90, Reconciling Fantasy With Reality
- Vol. 89, Secrets to Continuing On
- Vol. 88, The Rippling Effect of Art
- Vol. 87, Unearthing Hidden Gems
- Proclaiming Your Value
- The Next Big Thing
- Vol. 86, Conversations With the Muse
- Beasts of the Southern Wild—from the perspective of two Southern Writers
- Vol. 85, Art and Activism with Ava DuVernay’s The Middle of Nowhere
- Vol. 84, Keeping Integrity
- Vol. 83, Daring to Try Again
- Vol. 82, Have You Been Seen?
- Same Worries, 11 Years Later
- The Splintering Sparks of Our Efforts
- Respecting the Work: A Discipline
- Vol. 81, Readercon in Boston and Miko Kuro’s Midnight Tea in NYC
- Vol. 80, Keeping It Moving
- Warding Off Danger
- Octavia Butler
- Review of my book from a totally biased source (my brother!)
- Vol. 79, Fighting the Regularity of Normalcy
- Vol. 78, Submit to Your Art
- The Treasure Within
- Let It Get Messy!
- Sparking Motion
- Motherhood
- The Swarm Effect
- New Blood
- Vol. 77, What Am I Writing?
- Salvage the Bones: A Review
- I Wish You Loss
- The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2011
- Vol. 76, Everything Must Change
- Vol. 75, Be a Willing Participant
- Vol. 74, Flipping the Mirror
- Vol. 73, Soundtrack of a Revolution: A Documentary
- Vol. 72, Live Your Adventure
- Vol. 71, The Dream Behind the Dream
- Vol. 70, The End Game
- Vol. 69, Following Through
- Vol. 68, In Greece: Island Hopping
- Vol. 67, In Greece: Athens
- Vol. 66, The Winding Path
- Vol. 65, Following Your Ideas
- Vol. 64, Perfection
- Vol. 63, Strokes of Life
- Vol. 62, On Education and Courage
- Vol. 61, The Freedom Puzzle
- Vol. 60, Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
- Vol. 59, You Have So Much More Time Than You Realize
- Vol. 58, Achieving with Ease
- Vol. 57, Removing the Veil
- Vol. 56, Surviving by Percentages
- Vol. 55, In New Orleans: Lower 9th Ward, Post-Katrina
- Vol. 54, In New Orleans: Going Home, Post Katrina
- Vol. 53, In Mexico: A City In Celebration
- Vol. 52, In Mexico: Sounds and Food in Oaxaca
- Vol. 51, New Orleans Underwater
- Vol. 50, Surrendering the Ego
- Vol. 49, Alice Sebold’s Lucky and Sexual Assault
- Vol. 48, In Mexico: Water Shortages in Oaxaca
- Vol. 47, In Mexico: Vera Cruz
- Vol. 46, Novel Writing: A Marathon
- Vol. 45, Writers as Exhibitionists: Why Tell All
- Vol. 44, “Aboutness”
- Vol. 43, Hiding Out
- Vol. 42, The Value of Reading Publicly
- Vol. 41, Claiming It
- Vol. 40, How Old Are You?
- Vol. 39, The Fisherwoman’s Daughter by Ursula K. LeGuin
- Vol. 38, Crisis of Faith
- Vol. 37, Building Your Life Brand
- Vol. 36, Cover Letters
- Vol. 35, The Making of a Chapbook
- Vol. 34, The Story of a Dissertation Journey
- Vol. 33, Chapbooks: Feeding Your Writer Self
- Vol. 32, Freeing Your Work Through Limitations
- Vol. 31, Seeking and Receiving Critiques
- Vol. 30, Hype and Content
- Vol. 29, Keeping It Real
- Vol. 28, Administration vs. Play/Art
- Vol. 27, Writing is Fighting
- Vol. 26, Editing: Going Within
- Vol. 25, The Alchemy of Writing
- Vol. 24, At Nommo Writing Workshop
- Vol. 23, In Brazil: Being a Tourist
- Vol. 22, In Brazil: Bahian Food
- Vol. 21, In Brazil: Candomble and Visual Arts
- Vol. 20, In Brazil: Ilê Aiyê and Tourist-Native Relationships
- Vol. 19, In Brazil: Carnival Time
- Vol. 18, Pitching: A Study in Frustration
- Vol. 17, Contemplation on Completion
- Vol. 16, Kwanzaa in Art, Writing, and Life
- Vol. 15, 9-to-5
- Vol. 14, Visual Art
- Vol. 13, Money and Art
- Vol. 12, Process
- Vol. 11, I/We
- Vol. 10, The Universe’s Ripple Effects
- Vol. 9, Self-Defense
- Vol. 8, Editors and Writers
- Vol. 7, Freewriting and Asemic Writing
- Vol. 6, Destruction and Transformation
- Vol. 5, The Science of Carnival
- Vol. 4, A Conversation about Self Promotion
- Vol. 3, Novel Writing
- Vol. 2, Radio and Readings
- Vol. 1, Life and Debt
Writings
Anthologies
Interviews
Fiction
Nonfiction
Reviews
- Infinite Constellations Review on GoodReads
- Spec Fic on Identity and Culture: Infinite Constellations, Edited by Khadijah Queen and K. Ibura
- Black Speculative Fiction: Imagining Otherwise for Racial Justice
- 50 Brilliant Speculative Works by Black Authors
- Booklist: 9 Examples of Great Modern Short Story Collections
- 6 Books with Sabrina Vourvoulias
- An American Gods Reading List: 9 Stories of Deities & Men Mingling in the World
- L.A. Review of Books—What Art Does: When the World Wounds
- The Future Fire Reviews When the World Wounds
- Publishers Weekly: When the World Wounds
- Necessary Fiction: When the World Wounds
- Tor.com: Altered Bodies, Familiar Histories: K. Ibura’s When the World Wounds
- The Next Best Book Blog: Page 69 Test
- Bogi Reads the World: 2016 SFF Novella Recommendations
- Medium.com: Three Quarters Wolf Moon
- Seattle Review of Books: The Future Alternative Past: Besties
- Locus.com: New & Notable Books, December 2016
- Writing While Distracted: Review: When the World Wounds
- Modern Griots: When the World Wounds
- Bogi Reads the World: When the World Wounds by K. Ibura
- B R Sanders Reviews Ancient, Ancient
- 11 Sci-Fi Books Every Woman Should Read
- Mosaic Magazine Reviews Ancient, Ancient
- AALBC Reviews Ancient, Ancient
- Book Discussion: K. Ibura’s Ancient, Ancient
- Pressing Stories on the “Notes From the Trenches” series
- Tor.com Short Fiction Spotlight: Interfictions Online, Issue 1—”The Taming”
- s.e. smith reviews Ancient, Ancient
- Beauty, Sex, and Strangeness: K. Ibura’s “Ancient, Ancient”
- Locus Magazine: Karen Burnham reviews K. Ibura
- Signs of Life in Recent Short Fantastika from Elizabeth Hand, K. Ibura, and Karin Tidbeck
- Modern Griots: Ancient, Ancient
- Strange Horizons: Ancient, Ancient
- The Future Fire: Ancient, Ancient
- Publishers Weekly: Ancient, Ancient
- Book View Cafe: K. Ibura’s essay “Painting and Writing: My Ying and Yang”
- Strange Horizons—Oppression and Magic: Mojo: Conjure Stories
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