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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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Time to Reflect
Posted on 18 March 2024
We’re celebrating the one year anniversary of the Infinite Constellations anthology. It wasn’t my idea. My co-editor told me she wanted to celebrate the anniversary, then unveiled her plan to get us to appear at the New Orleans Book Festival. Since it’s my hometown, we added another event at the Community Book Center. Taking time… »
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Circling the Drain
Posted on 14 November 2023
Circling the drain is a term that is most often seen as negative, because where do drains go? To the sewer with other cast off and unwanted waste. But today, I see myself as circling the drain of my artistry—or whatever is at the core of it. I see my visual art as a core… »
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Doing vs. Being
Posted on 9 July 2023
These days I feel like I am in a battle to re-learn how to BE and to un-learn the lean towards DOING. I remember a time where being an artist (as in making or doing art) was so natural to me. Painting, writing these fantastical stories because an idea struck me, making birthday cards for… »
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Being Willing to Find Your Way
Posted on 28 May 2023
I just did a post on social media about the tenacity it takes to keep going with writing. I think tenacity is just one element, another is faith—I guess faith helps fuel the tenacity. You have to have complete and utter faith that you are going somewhere with all this tenacity. That the returning to… »
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Lost and Found
Posted on 24 April 2023
There are so many risks in chasing a dream. I turned in the fourth draft of my novel in December of last year. By the time I had done so, I was COMPLETELY depleted. I was not depleted from writing alone—it was the combination of the writing and the day job and doing my part… »
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What Are You Battling?
Posted on 2 October 2021
Working with writers in the writing sprints. I can see how profoundly the mental side of writing affects everything. I see it in myself too. To get to the end of a project you have to wrestle with doubt and discipline. There are so many points in a project where doubt can rear up. And… »
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Know Your Limits
Posted on 23 August 2021
In my July newsletter I mentioned my father. He’s a writer with a huge footprint, and he’s only doing more as he grows older. Some years ago when I was promoting my short story collection, I invited him to do an event with me at Community Book store in New Orleans. For as much as… »
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What’s the Worst That Could Happen?
Posted on 12 August 2021
Of all of human’s gifts, one that never fails to amaze me is our capacity for worry and anxiety. Give us anything—good, bad, or neutral—and we can construct a disaster out of it. Our efforts are going to fail, things we love will disappear, people we love will get hurt, strangers will taunt us, no… »
