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July 14, 2012
Black SF Primer–Octavia Butler
For this week, I will highlight a woman who is arguably one of the most well-known and most celebrated SF writers of the latter 20th century. Butler spent years honing her craft, studying at Pasadena Community College, with the Screen Writers Guild Open Door Program, and the Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop. That effort paid [...]
July 11, 2012
July 10, 2012
A Perspective on POV–Notes from utopYAcon
This past weekend, I was at the first annual utopYAcon (wonderful: buy your tickets for 2013 immediately). I had the pleasure of participating on a panel with Raine Thomas and Willow Cross. We were talking about how to select point of view for your writing. Lots of young adult fiction is written in the 1st [...]
July 1, 2012
Meet The Authors At utopYA: L.M. Davis
Reblogged from utopYA con: Meet the Authors at utopYA is a series of blog posts where we introduce you to all the amazing writers who will be in attendance at the first ever utopYA convention. Some will be on panels, some will be exhibitors, some will be keynote speakers, and all are living the dream. [...]
June 29, 2012
Fierce and Wonderful, Fantasy and the Girl/Woman Reader
God, I love Meg Murry! Awkward and insecure, she feels out of place in her family where everyone seems to be special in their own way. Throughout A Wrinkle in Time, Meg battles through her insecurities to become an unlikely and true heroine, saving her brother and her father over the course of an inter-dimensional [...]
June 23, 2012
Black SF Primer–Virginia Hamilton
This is a woman after my own heart (truly). In fact I grew up reading her books, starting withAnd the People Could Fly and moving on quickly to classics likeM. C. Higgins the Great and Justice and Her Brothers. Like Samuel Delany, Virginia Hamilton was a prolific writer. Zeely, her first novel about two [...]
June 9, 2012
Black Sci-Fi Primer–Samuel R. Delany
After a brief hiatus from the primer (I will blame Memorial Day), I’m back. This is a name that I am sure most of you have heard, but I am willing to bet that you did not think “Chip” Delaney looked like this: Samuel Delaney is one of the singly most prolific science fiction authors [...]
May 19, 2012
Black SF Primer–Henry Dumas
After the break last week, I am taking a pretty huge leap forward on the 20th century timeline. As of right now, I have not found any speculative fiction published by African Americans in the mid part of the decade. I do not think that this signals an absence of Black speculative fiction production during [...]
May 5, 2012
Black Spec Fic Primer–Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston* (1891-1960) A quintessential literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston is probably most well-known for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. She was also a cultural anthropologist who published two collections of African American and Caribbean folklore, Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938) respectively, that include extensive sections [...]
May 3, 2012
State of Black Science Fiction Youth Symposium
Initially published by http://chroniclesofharriet.wordpress.... State of Black Science Fiction Youth Symposium, which takes place in Atlanta, GA on May 5, 2012. This exciting symposium brings together a group of Black authors of speculative fiction – in conjunction with the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History – who will host the day-long [...]
