upcoming . . .
Invite Kim to read her work!
video clips . . .
Bennett Fellow Reading (starts 22:00, excerpt from short story, “How to Kill…”), 2021
Center for Fiction Fellows Reading (starts 28:00, excerpt from Ghana novel), 2018
BK Live Interview (discussing Kimbilio Fellows program with Angela Flournoy), 2015
The Places We’ve Been Panel (starts 31:50, excerpt from Ghana memoir), 2014
Girls Write Now Reading (creative nonfiction with mentee), 2010
Sunday Salon (excerpt from essay, “The Joke”), 2008
past appearances . . .
2022
- Funding Your Writing Getaway and More: Residencies and Merit Fellowships, The Muse and the Marketplace, Virtual
2021
- Finding Money for Your Prose and Poetry Projects, New York Writers Coalition, Virtual
- Assembly Reading, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
- Trauma, Tresses, & Truth conference panel: “Race, Stigma, and the Politics of Black Hair,” Virtual
- Family Friction in Fiction, KGB Bar, Virtual
2020
- A Ninth Anniversary Reading by Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellows, AWP Conference, San Antonio, TX
2019
- Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellows Reading, Brooklyn, NY
- Franklin Park Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY
2018
- Center for Fiction NYC Emerging Writers Fellows Reading, New York, NY
- Book launch for Kem Joy Ukwu’s Locked Gray / Linked Blue, Brooklyn, NY
- FLAPPERHOUSE Year Four Reading, Brooklyn, NY
- Halfway There Reading Series, Montclair, NJ
2017
- Ditmas Lit reading series, Brooklyn, NY
- FLAPPERHOUSE reading, Brooklyn, NY
- Brooklyn Book Fest Bookend reading, Brooklyn, NY
2016
- Manhattanville Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY
- Women Writers of the Diaspora, New York, NY
2015
- Kimbilio Fiction Fellows reading, Brooklyn, NY
- BK Live television interview, Brooklyn, NY
- The Word Cabaret, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2014 & earlier
- The Places We’ve Been travel essay reading, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, 2014
- Poetry Electric, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY, 2014
- 3rd Annual Swarthmore College Alumni Variety Show, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York, NY, 2014
- Hurston-Wright Foundation benefit reading, New York, NY, 2014
- Women Writers of the Diaspora Reading Series, The New School, New York, NY, 2013
- New York Fulbrighters Salon, 206 Salon, New York, NY, 2012
- Poetry Electric: Write On, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York, NY, 2012
- 2nd Annual Swarthmore College Alumni Variety Show, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York, NY, 2011
- Tidal Basin Review reading, Washington, DC, 2010
- Girls Write Now Chapters reading series, The Center for Fiction, New York, NY, 2010
- Swarthmore College Alumni Variety Show, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York, NY, 2010
- Kiva Cafe reading series, New York, NY, 2009
- Beckoning for Change premier, New York, NY, 2009
- Kettle of Fish, New York, NY, March & December 2009
- Sunday Salon, Stain Bar, Brooklyn, NY, 2008
- Just Like a Girl release reading, Bluestockings, New York, NY, 2008
- Sunday Salon PALF contest winners reading, Kokrobitey, Ghana, 2008
- Guild Complex BYOP reading, Chicago, IL, 2007
- Muse All Arts reading, Winds Café, Chicago, IL, 2007
- Lecture: “Ghana and the Slave Trade,” Bronzeville Academy & Chicago State University, Chicago, IL, 2006 & 2007
- Guild Complex Nonfiction Reading Series, Chicago, IL, 2006
- Bus Boys and Poets open mike, Washington, DC, 2005
- Third World Café summer reading series, Chicago, IL, 2005