Carl Brandon Society

10/10/2024

Free online reading and talking from and about my new Beat era fantasy, The Day and Night Books of Mardou Fox: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nisi-shawl-with-k-tempest-bradford-tickets-1038515898007?aff=oddtdtcreator Catch us October 25 at 6 p.m. Pacific and I promise you I will sing too.

Nisi Shawl virtually launches their latest book

09/17/2024

Ridicule of stupid Hating-on-Haitian-migrants is NOT the same as supporting Haitians. Yesterday I posted a broken donation link for those of us who want to give a lot more than we want to laugh about this mess. Took it down, but here's a link to the Springfield Haitian community center's website, with a donation button embedded in the front page:

09/13/2024

Hey everyone! I totally forgot to post about this earlier, but the Asian American Literature Festival is back, it's FREE and the Bay Area portion of the book FAIR is happening TOMORROW, Sat, Sept 14, from 4-7 pm at the Chinese Culture Center in Chinatown (on Kearny Street on the 3rd floor of the Hilton Hotel)!!

I (Claire Light/Jadie Jang) will be reading and selling (and signing) books so come on through and check out the 20-odd (and even) APIA writers who will be present and presenting! It'll be a fun time!

More info: https://www.kearnystreet.org/events-blog/2024/8/15/asian-american-literature-festival-sf-bay-area-book-festival

09/04/2024

In case anyone wants to reach me online, there's this butterfly and it's blue and it flies in the sky and me and a buncha folks are having so much fun with it there.

09/04/2024

Yeah, FB removed my post telling you about a new essay from Emily Jiang on the SFWA site. The previous seven essays didn't trigger this automatic spam algo. Fine. Go to the SFWA site and look at the Publishing Taught Me anthology under "Publications." Emily's essay is the one that went up today. Anyone else wants to post the link, great.

08/07/2024

Dance the Exotic Dance for Me is the latest essay up on
SFWA's Publishing Taught Me page: https://www.sfwa.org/sfwa-publications/publishing-taught-me-a-sfwa-anthology-project/ It is excellent! Yoon Ha Lee exceeds all expectations here!

Essays in the Publishing Taught Me: A SFWA Anthology Project Series Dance the Exotic Dance for Me! – by Yoon Ha Lee – Published on 8/7/2024 The Ballad of the Slush Reader What I’ve Learned (And What I Want to Know) about Reading Slush – by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas – Published on 7/3/2...

07/29/2024

We're inviting SFF authors and fans + the whole of the literary community to join us for the 2024 Celebrating Octavia event. This year we're highlighting Butler's 1993 novel Parable of the Sower, which opens in the year 2024, and its sequel Parable of the Talents.

We're asking the community to participate in the celebration by posting a video of you reading Verse 54 of Earthseed: The First Book of the Living, the in-world religious text created by the novel's protagonist. If video isn't your jam, you can join in by posting the text (found below)!

Please include the hashtags (plus any others you want) and, on socials where linking is available, the Carl Brandon website carlbrandon (doot) org. Our homepage has extra info about the campaign, Butler, and the books.

Please post anytime between now and September 5, 2024 on any day or time convenient for you. If you happen to see others posting, please like, share, and boost!

Thank you so much and we look forward to seeing your posts.

**Earthseed: The First Book of the Living, Verse 54**

Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.

06/22/2024

Happy Octavia Day!

06/19/2024

Home The Carl Brandon Society’s mission is to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction. Upcoming Events   Awards Carl Brandon Parallax Award The Carl Brandon Parallax Award is given to works of speculative fiction created by a self-identified ...

06/17/2024

Got my first donation for Clarion West's -a-thon last night! Wow! This week's goal is an outline for a new Writing the Other book co-written with Alaya Dawn Johnson. Support a fantastic writing workshop promoting BIPOC authors and me too?

https://secure.clarionwest.org/np/clients/clarionwest/campaign.jsp?campaign=352&fundraiser=6139&

06/06/2024

Our freshest essay for Publishing Taught Me, which is SFWA's online anthology: https://www.sfwa.org/2024/06/05/culture-moving-beyond-set-dressing/ Funny and smart!

by Kanishk Tantia This essay is the fifth of eight in the Publishing Taught Me: A SFWA Anthology Project. The first story I ever wrote was unabashedly my own: written with unfiltered childlike enthusiasm, completed within a single draft and, to my eyes, perfect upon completion. Two donkeys killed ea...

05/23/2024

My new story is published! "Over a Long Time Ago" is now up at Lightspeed: www.lightspeedmagazine.com All about mission creeps and how to pleasure your dead lover. Buy the issue for 3.99 or a year subscription for 35.88.

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