Published Works:

Kim Sykes has published short stories for Akashic Books’ Noir series, one of which was selected for the Best African American Fiction of 2010. Full length plays and screenplays include, In A Roundabout Way, Sex & Commerce, Wandering Lies and Declaration of Occupation, The Black Hole and Until Somebody Remembers You.

The Plays:

DECLARATION OF OCCUPATION: Challenges the corporation and its so-called humanness. Corporations have become so prevalent in our lives that we have forgotten how to live. As Toni Morrison says in The Source of Self-Regard, “It  turns neighbors into consumers–so the measure of our values as humans is not our humanity or our compassion or our generosity but what we own.” Declaration of Occupation focuses on one family, as they come to realize the importance of connection, communication, love and that a family is not given but one that is nurtured and made. Reading, September 25th, 2023 @ The Tank

IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY is a two-act play about the widowed Mary Lincoln who attempts to reconnect with her former seamstress, Elizabeth Keckley, years after the Civil War, exposing their long-held grievances as they both struggle with trauma, drug and alcohol abuse. IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY will be produced in 2024 thanks in part to a grant from the New York State Council for the Arts. Directed by Kim Sykes

I write what I want to see—brave and savvy women who have something to say about the world and seek to change it.   I write in support of the human rights of women and girls and to highlight the intersectionality of social issues affecting our lives.  -Kim Sykes