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Kiini Ibura Salaam 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. Kiini'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.listartist life // author appearances // author readings // career // development // growth // Promotion // rejection/acceptance o'meter // self representation // writer's life
Vol. 42, The Value of Reading Publicly
Posted on 14 April 2004
Brooklyn, NY Recently a friend was writing an essay on the relationship between authors and public readings. “Why,” he asked, “is it important for writers to read their work?” It is an interesting question because writing—unlike the performing arts—doesn’t really need to be performed to be enjoyed by others. For dancers, actors, singers, and musicians,… »
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.listappearances // audience // Clarion West // embarrassment // erotica // fear // hiding out // Kiini Ibura Salaam // KIS.list // listeners // nerves // performance // practice // Promotion // pushing your career // Radio // reading // representing yourself // responsibility // Self-promotion // strippers // WBAI // writing // writing struggles
Vol. 4, A Conversation about Self Promotion
Posted on 2 September 2001
The Living Room of a Writer’s Apartment Brooklyn, NY I’ve been writing and publishing stories and essays since 1990. In the beginning I never read my work at all. When people were looking for writers to read at events, I’d refuse; when pushed, I’d be noncommittal. When I did promise to read, I would leave… »
BlogKIS.listauthor appearances // Clarion West // Cuba // Dark Matter // Hour of the Wolf // Kiini Ibura Salaam // KIS.list // Promotion // Radio // Sci fi // Self-promotion // Speculative fiction // WBAI // Writer
Vol. 2, Radio and Readings
Posted on 11 August 2001
WBAI Radio Station Wall Street, Manhattan Before I went to Clarion (a six-week speculative fiction writing workshop), the New York Review of Science Fiction had a small crisis. Scott Westerfield had guest-edited a sci fi issue of Nerve magazine (a magazine about sex) and the NY Review of Science Fiction was hosting a reading from… »