Creative Nonfiction Essays
“Picking Wild Berries” The FORGE Literary Magazine, December 2023
“Poetics of Transmutation” New England Review Vol 44.3, Fall 2023
“The Confluence of Birds, Language, and Mammals” Joyland, January 2022.
‘The Force of a Sentence” excerpt The Cincinnati Review, Vol. 19.1, Spring 2022
Honorable mention as a Finalist for the Robert and Adele Schiff Awards, 2021
“Mysteries and Symbols of my Past” Ruminate Magazine, Issue 59: Forged, Summer 2021
Honorable Mention for the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize, 2021.
“Being Here in This Body” North Carolina Literary Review, No. 30, 2021
Winner, North Carolina Humanities Council Linda Flowers Literary Award, 2020
“The Scent of You Lingers” Matters of Feminist Practice Anthology, Belladonna*, Vol. 1, 2020
Shuddering Expansion/Where home is, Asymptote Journal, 2018
Finalist for Nowhere Travel Writing Prize, Fall 2020.
Poetry and/or Hybrids
“Seven of Dragons” Annulet Issue 6, Fall 2023
“Things You Encounter in Flight”, “The Tower Falls”, and “Tasseography” Twenty-two Twenty-eight, Fall 2023
“You Are Here–on a Map” Braided Way, Fall 2023
“Don’t Bite the Hand That Feeds You” Drunk Monkeys, Fall 2023
“The Future” Orca Journal, Issue 14, Autumn 2023
“Bewilderment” Vita Poetica Journal, Winter Issue, 2023
“Between the Dreaming and Becoming” Unbroken Journal, 2023
“How Can It Be a Cardinal Sin?” and “The Meat-loving God” Callaloo Vol 41, No. 4, 2023
“Transit 11 11” The Progressive Magazine, Summer 2023
“I’ve Kept You Alive”, “The Man Who Changed His Name Twice”, and “Are You Now Afraid for Your Color?” The Decolonial Passage, Spring 2023
“The Dog Is Quiet” Boats Against the Current, Spring 2023
“Why I Wake up Early” Amethyst Review, Spring 2023
“Will There Be Chickens in Paradise” SWWIM journal, Spring 2023
“The Human-headed Lion Seduces Three Lambs” Another Chicago Magazine, Spring 2023
“Little Wren” About Place Journal, Winter 2022
“Moon Dog” and “The Hyena” The Global South–The Eco-Arts Issue, Vol 16, No. 1 & 2, Fall 2022
“Cast Over Gorée Island” Shenandoah, Vol. 71, No. 2, Spring 2022
“Things Have Been Disappearing” The Poetry Review, Vol. 112, No. 1, Spring 2022
“A Life in Fragments (of a Boat)” You Are the RiverAnthology, North Carolina Museum of Arts, 2021
“Loved”, “Guilty Until Proven Innocent”, “Creation”, “The Wisdom of Sea Cucumbers”, “The Tools We Carry”, “Leonard Cohen Saves the Maiden”, “The Movement of Bodies”, and “18 Notes to Finish”, Hole in the Head Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2021
“Factors” and “The Fire People” Poets.org, 2018
‘Locusts” Tiferet Journal, 2018
“Ergonomics” Truck, 2016.
“Ode to the Sheep” Prairie Schooner, 2016.
“The fire people” Poetry Quarterly, 2015.
“October” “Going Home” and “The Sink” Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings, ed. Jane Plastow, Vol 14, (2014) School of English, University of Leeds, p90-91.
“Stormy Heart” A Thousand Voices Rising: An Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry, ed. Beverley N Nsengiyunva, Gilgal Media Arts, Kampala, (2014) p13-14.
Fiction (Short Stories)
“The Way We Bend” Mukana publishing, Forthcoming.
“Bless the Broken Path” Northeast Review, 2014
“Black Stone” published in Per Contra, 2012
“Scars of Earth”Interviews/Conversations
Behind the Byline: with New England Review staff reader Meera Vijayann speaking about cultural mythologies, the masks we wear to deny our humanity, and the essay “Poetics of Transmutation” from issue 44.3. Fall 2023
Poet Mildred Kiconco Barya Aims to be Present… in the Present, By Meg Hale Brunton, Carolina Spark Magazine, July 2023
Woman of the Earth School, By Robert McGee, Blue Ridge Outdoors, May 2023
Mildred Kiconco Barya celebrates the release of her latest poetry collection, By Thomas Calder, Mountain XPress, April 2023
Waterborne Feelings: Reflections on the experience of visiting Gorée Island and bearing witness to ancestral trauma. Via the poem “Cast Over Gorée Island” in Volume 71.2 of Shenandoah, January 2023
Four of a Kind: Mildred Barya talks local literary scene, By Edwin Arnaudin, Mountain Xpress, January 2023
“…a relentless attempt to express the inexpressible.” with Michael Hettich, Hole in the Head Review, 2021
Wordplay Radio Show Asheville FM 103.3 2019.
Poetry Collection Reviews
Heavy Feather Review by Jeanne Griggs
Terrain.org by Heather Swan
Tiferet Journal by Adele Kenny
From Books: Men Love Chocolates But They Don’t Say 2002
The day I got my first period, Mother exclaimed; You’ve become a woman! And so I wondered, What had I been earlier? And how could a drop of blood Make me a woman? When they took my brother to the circle, He flinched at the feel of a sharp knife. But the elders convinced him; ‘You must not fear Do not show any cowardice Once we slice off the skin You become a man.’ When mother was heavy with Junior, She would rush off the table And run to the sink. The day she was taken to hospital A bag of water dropped to the ground, Then a drop of blood. Father cried, ‘Woman!’ I read in the Holy Scriptures How the Son of man was crucified Before he breathed his last, Water and blood flowed out There he became man, Who was God. I guess there’s something in a drop of blood, That makes us men and women.
He says We are a continuous stream Not a classification There isn’t a you, me or the other We are us. Borderless Africa Borderless Africa. They say Before time began We were, Now the cord is broken, Dismembered from the source. Borderless Africa, Borderless Africa, Flow, Connect us again We cry for you.
The Call Come to the edge, he said It’s dangerous there, I answered Come to the edge, he said It’s risky, I might fall and break my bones Come to the edge, he said I did, He pushed me, And I flew.
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