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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.

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SF in SF fundraiser for the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship

Color Me SF: The Science Fiction Worlds of Octavia Butler and Carl Brandon

Fundraiser for the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship

Saturday is Litquake Day in San Francisco, and SF in SF has a very special event for you….

Special guest readers for the event will be Jewelle Gomez and Claire Light. There will also be a discussion on Butler and Brandon, with Q and A moderated by Terry Bisson. Books will be for sale courtesy of Borderlands Books; and there’s a special raffle at $1 a ticket!!! All proceeds to the scholarship!

SF in SF will be asking for $5 at the door, with all of the money going to the Octavia Butler Scholarship. Bar proceeds for the night will also go to the Scholarship. Tips, as usual, will go to Variety.

The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship enables writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops, where Octavia got her start. It helps to cement Octavia’s legacy by providing the same experience/opportunity that Octavia had to future generations of new writers of color.

Cash bar and doors open at 6:00 PM – first come, first seated. We will have the lounge area miked as well, so all who come are welcome to stay and listen.

Event begins at 7:00PM – podcasting by Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column & NPR

The Variety Preview Room Theatre

The Hobart Bldg., 1st Floor – entrance is between Citibank and Quiznos

582 Market St. @ Montgomery & 2nd

Please contact Rina Weisman with any questions.

SF in SF – Science Fiction. San Francisco. A Perfect Fit

Tachyon Publications – “Saving the world, one good book at a time”

Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California

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2010 International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts: call for papers on the theme of Race and the Fantastic

Call For Papers: 2010 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts

The Film and Media division of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts seeks paper and panel proposals for the 31st International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts which will be held March 17th – 21st, 2010 in Orlando, Florida at the Marriott Orlando Airport Hotel.

The topic of this year’s conference is “Race and the Fantastic.” Papers related to this topic, as well as to the work of our guests of honor and attending authors (below), are especially welcome; as always, proposals for individual papers and for academic sessions and panels on any aspect of the fantastic in any media are also welcome.

The guests of honor for 2010 are authors Nalo Hopkinson and Laurence Yep, and scholar Takayuki Tatsumi. More information here.