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Carl Brandon Society Arisia Schedule

Attending Arisia in Boston this weekend? Be sure to check out the Carl Brandon Society programming:

Carl Brandon Society Party
Saturday, 8:30pm to midnight, Room 211
Enter for a chance to win the Carl Brandon Award winning books.

Carl Brandon Awards Ceremony and Reception
Sunday, 1:00pm, Presidents A
Andrea Hairston and Nnedi Okorafor will receive their Carl Brandon Awards and read from their winning works.

Nnedi Okorafor’s panels:
Saturday, 3:00pm Diversity is Coming!
Sunday, 11:00am Faeries of Color: Tales of the Fae beyond Northern Europe

Andrea Hairston’s panels:
Saturday, 11:00am The Changing Face of Fiction: Literature, Diversity, and Backlash
Saturday, 4:00am Interstitial Fiction: Dancing between the Genres

check at the convention for rooms and for up-to-date schedule information

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2006 & 2007 Carl Brandon Society Award Winners

covers for Mindscape, The Shadow Speaker, and From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain

The Carl Brandon Society is pleased to announce the winners of our 2006 and 2007 awards.

The winner of the 2006 Carl Brandon Parallax Award is Mindscape by Andrea Hairston. [Note: No work will receive the 2006 Carl Brandon Kindred Award.]

The 2007 Carl Brandon Parallax Award winner is The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor. The 2007 Carl Brandon Kindred Award winner is From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain by Minister Faust.

A presentation ceremony for the 2006 and 2007 awards will take place at Arisia, an annual science fiction convention held in Boston, Massachusetts. Award recipients Andrea Hairston and Nnedi Okorafor will be in attendance, and the honors lists for the 2006 and 2007 Parallax and Kindred Awards will be announced there.

Nominations for the 2008 Parallax and Kindred Awards are now closed. We will announce our winners later this year. Nominations for the 2009 Parallax and Kindred Awards will be accepted through June 1, 2010. Visit the awards page for more information.

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Caribbean fantasy novelist Michael Holgate wins Moonbeam Award

Novelist Michael Holgate, from Jamaica, recently received a Moonbeam Award for his children’s fantasy novel Night of the Indigo. More from Krista Henry, Staff Reporter at the Jamaica Gleaner:

The Moonbeam Awards are some of the fastest growing United States-based awards focused on children’s books.

Presented by the Jenkins Group and Independent Publisher Online, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are designed “to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading”. Awards are given in 36 categories covering the full range of subjects, styles and age groups that children’s books are written and published in today.

The Moonbeam Awards are intended for authors, illustrators, publishers and self-publishers of children’s books, written in English and intended for the North American market.