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Books

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• When the World Wounds
• On the Push to Produce Work
• Ancient, Ancient
• On the Struggle to Self-Promote
• On the Psychology of Writing
• The Single Woman’s Manifesto

Blog

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• 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

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Anthologies

• At Life’s Limits
• Race: A Discussion in Ten Parts, Plus a Few Moments of Unsubstantiated Theory and One Inarguable Fact
• Market Intimacies
• When Conception Equals Confusion: The Battle Between Mothers and Would-Be Fathers
• Sex When I Don’t Want It
• Rosamojo
• The Orange Grove
• Desire
• MalKai’s Last Seduction
• How Sexual Harassment Slaughtered, Then Saved Me
• Dominican Dance Floor
• The Sexiest Seconds
• Kai Does Red … Again

Interviews

• Speculative Fiction and the Current Moment
• Sirens Guest of Honor Interview
• Alien Encounters III: Live Interview
• Crunk Feminist Collective: Interview with K. Ibura and Chesya Burke
• Sofia Samatar: A Conversation With K. Ibura
• Writing Ancient, Ancient—Author Interview with K. Ibura
• Ask a Solutionista, Volume 1 - K. Ibura
• Black Gate: Advice
• Patrick Samphire: Author Interview: K. Ibura
• 3Qs for writer K. Ibura
• Ancient, Ancient on WWNO’s The Reading Life
• Conversations Magazine
• Tips for African-Americans Living Abroad
• K. Ibura Tells All from Mexico

Fiction

• Hemmie’s Calenture
• Because of the Boneman
• Volcano Woman
• Of Wings, Nectar, & Ancestors
• At Life’s Limits
• Ferret
• Debris
• Bio-Anger

Nonfiction

• Race: A discussion in 10 parts plus a few moments of unsubstantiated theory and one inarguable fact…
• When Conception Equals Confusion: The Battle Between Mothers and Would-Be Fathers
• “There’s No Racism Here?” A Black Woman in the Dominican Republic
• Reflections on Fiji - Turn of the Century: December 1999
• No
• A Man’s Response to “Navigating to No”
• Navigating to No

Reviews

• 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

Artwork

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• Mojo 267
  
  
  
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• Power, Light