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Octavia Butler's papers going to the Huntington LibraryAlso, I'll mention again the Octavia Butler event occurring this evening in San Francisco: Color Me SF: The Science Fiction Worlds of Octavia Butler and Carl Brandon. The current speaker line-up includes Jewelle Gomez, Claire Light and ( Read more... )

LitQuake, an annual literary event in San Francisco, just announced their schedule for this year:

http://www.litquake.org/festival-schedule-2009/

SATURDAY, October 10Color Me SF: The Science Fiction Worlds of Octavia Butler and Carl Brandon, 7:00 p.m. Variety Club ( Read more... )

Do you exist? Are you a POC and reader of SF/F? If so, there's a unicorn roll-call.

The reason is Lois McMaster Bujold seems surprised that there are so many POC sci-fi/fantasy genre fans. She figures we didn't exist until the internet happened.

Hmmm, I wonder what that says about Octavia and those of us who love her. 

Hallo,

Just wanted to let this community know about the con_or_bust community auction, to help SF/F Fen of Color get to wiscon . Both because I think it's the sort of thing Octavia Butler would have supported, and because wonderful books by writers of color are on auction (among other cool things).

Excess money raised in the auction goes to the Carl Brandon ( Read more... )

Hope this year has been a good one so far for everyone.

This marks three years since Ms. Butler's passing, but hopefully there are good things in store for us, such as ...

"Looking for artists for Octavia Butler graphic novel" post by desayunoencamahttp://desayunoencama.livejournal.com/363522.htmlRead more... )

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There will never be another Octavia...but I'm curious to hear whom folks think of in the same regard. Who is the author where you think what they speak of, who they are, where they're coming from, and all that jazz clicks into place for you?

Applications for this year's Clarion West Writers Workshop must be RECEIVED by March 1. March 2nd is too late. (Please note that this deadline is a month earlier than it was in previous years ( Read more... )

Hello, Octavia Butler fans ( Read more... )

Both the Clarion and Clarion West Writing Workshops have changed their application deadlines to March 1 for their 2008 sessions. The joint decision to move the deadlines forward by one full month will ensure that successful applicants have more time to prepare for six weeks of writing, critiquing, and studying with some of fantasy and science ( Read more... )