conferences and talks:
Chicago Public Library’s Teen Volume Series Featured Writer, November-December 2007 (Chicago, IL)

Free Library of Philadelphia Featured Writer, November 2007 (Philadelphia, PA)

Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writers Conference at Chicago State University, October 2007 (Chicago, IL)

University of Arkansas, November 2006 (Fayetteville, AR)

Judge Greg Mathis’s Youth and Education Expo, October 2006 (Chicago, IL)

Buffalo, New York Book Fair, August 2006 (Buffalo, NY)

New York Public Library Featured Writer, July-August 2006 (New York, NY)

University of Chicago Emerging Writers Series, February 2006 (Chicago, IL)

Northwestern University’s Lane Humanities Series, January 2006(Evanston, IL)

National Council of Teachers of English

Books at the Pier, August 2005 (New York, NY)

Annual Conference October 2005 (Pittsburg, PA)

American Library Association Annual Conference, June 2005 (Chicago, IL)



select stories and articles:
The Incredibly Short Love Affair of Sixo Reese, forthcoming (University of Chicago’s Otium)

Grenada, June/July 2007 (Odyssey Couleur Magazine)

The Islands, June/July 2006 (Odyssey Couleur Magazine)

Closing the Gap: A Conversation with Legendary Vaudevillian Ernest “Brownie” Brown, Winter 2005 (On Tap, a Publication of the International Tap Association)

Closing the Gap: A Conversation with Legendary Vaudevillian Ernest “Brownie”

And What Now? The Writer’s Life, June 2005 (Black Issues Book Review)

Building a Black American Library, May 2005 (London Independent)

A Letter In April, February 2005 (Brown Sugar Books)

Card Parties, Spring 2002 (Michigan Quarterly Review)

plays:
Journey to Mecca (2007)
Breaking up is hard to do… as a Renaissance man and woman find out when they attempt to do just that in a weekend hotel room.

Card Parties (2006)
4 thirty-something Black women friends gather for a decade for a weekly card game, but find their lives (and their tradition) upset when a new young woman joins the group.

works in progress:
Re-Reading Absence: The Politics of Inversion and Black Women in Early Cinematic Historiography

Pleasant Imaginings: Speculations, Trials and the Postmodern Black Historical Heroine in Denise Nicholas’s play Buses

Politics, Domesticity and the Black Woman’s Blues: Reading Beyond Disguise in Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit and Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwanee

Work on Black women playwrights

Another novel...
Other articles mentioned and
written by Kalisha Buckhanon.