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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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BlogKIS.listbattling negativity // failure // faith // limitations // Lonnie Holley // suicide // visual art
Vol. 66, The Winding Path
Posted on 7 June 2009
A few weeks back I went to an exhibition called Négritude at Exit Art in New York City. I enjoyed the artwork—specifically some very beautiful photography from Mario Cravo Neto; some intriguing text (to accompany video shorts) and needlework from Wura-Natasha Ogunji; a great collection of album covers in an installation by Xaviera Simmons; and… »
BlogKIS.listartist life // career // earning money // faith // making a living // novel // publishing // rejection // sarah pemberton strong // writing struggles
Vol. 41, Claiming It
Posted on 11 March 2004
Brooklyn, NY As I find myself mired in my perpetual 9-to-5 depression and overwhelmed by the lack of brain space to successfully ponder the distinctions between genres, the secrets of various writing processes, the difficulties of artist development and the importance of craft; I’m just plain exhausted. Under the oppression of this malaise, my thoughts… »
BlogKIS.listcompletion // confidence // dissertation // faith // rejection/acceptance o'meter // Writer // writer's block // writing advice // writing coach // writing struggles
Vol. 34, The Story of a Dissertation Journey
Posted on 17 July 2003
Brooklyn, New York and Baton Rouge, Louisiana It is mid-July and I am just sitting down to write the KIS.list for May and June. Motherhood certainly has something to do with it. I am not mentally engaged with writing in the same single-minded manner I had been before my daughter’s birth. Now, I have very… »
BlogKIS.listartist's life // Bullshit or Fertilizer // faith // perspective // Pierre Bennu // Promotion // rejection/acceptance o'meter // self confidence // Self-promotion // writer's life // writing struggles
Vol. 30, Hype and Content
Posted on 23 January 2003
A Conversation with a Fellow Writer and a Visual Artist Brooklyn, NY A writer friend of mine was visiting and the topic of hype came up. He brought up a writer’s website he had recently visited. The website pissed him off because the writer claimed to have produced mountains of various types of work, but… »
BlogKIS.listfaith // KIS.list // rejections // the writing life // writing // writing struggles
Vol. 27, Writing is Fighting
Posted on 6 September 2002
Novelists for Life Cybergroup Cyberspace On my novelists e-group, we are always discussing writing. The processes of writing, the challenges, the failures and successes, what scares us about it, how we triumphed over an obstacle or a block. During one of our discussions on writing, a member of the list, Angel Shannon wrote: ishmael reed… »
BlogKIS.listaccolades // commitment // confidence // craft of writing // executing ideas // faith // insecurity // judging // outcome // process // quitting // rejection // rejection/acceptance o'meter // seeing it through // self acceptance // self confidence // success // the artist life // the writing life // trust // writing advice // writing struggles
Vol. 12, Process
Posted on 26 November 2001
Conversations on the F-train with a Writer Friend Manhattan, NY to Brooklyn, NY I hadn’t seen a friend of mine in a while so we decided to take the train home from work together. My friend had just finished her first professional short story and had it picked up for publication. She was so inspired… »