CBS Bay Area Wiki Party!

Hi all CBS members and wannabe members in the San Francisco Bay Area!

Please join us for our first ever CBS Wiki Party this Wednesday, March 2. Info is below. Please RSVP via Facebook, or in comments below. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

— Claire

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Wednesday, March 2 ยท 7:00pm – 9:00pm

Mission Creek Cafe
968 Valencia St (between 21st St & Liberty St)
San Francisco, CA

WHO: All members of the Carl Brandon Society (or folks who are interested in becoming members) who are in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time.

WHAT: Let’s hang out and fill in some of the articles on CBS’s wiki!

WHAT TO BRING:
1. Bring your laptop! (There IS wifi at Mission Creek!)
2. Bring information (this can be in your head or you can find it on the internet) about a writer of color (or an sf work by a writer of color or an sf work that deals with race and ethnicity) that you can put into a wiki article.
3. Bring your checkbook (you can sign up for or renew your membership here!)
4. Bring your squee (because why meet up with other fans if you don’t?)

WHY:
1. CBS’s wiki could be a great resource but we need to start filling it in. It’ll be much more fun if we do it together!
2. The Bay Area’s fen of color and allies really need to start getting together on a regular basis.
3. Fogcon will be happening the following weekend, so let’s get revved up for it!
4. Squeeeeeeeeee!!!
5. Do we really need a reason?

MORE INFO: http://carlbrandon.org/
http://www.carlbrandon.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Win An Autographed First Edition of the Dark Matter Anthology

I’m sure you all know about our current fundraiser, the drawing to win some eReaders filled with awesome fiction and poetry by writers of color. But do you know that beyond the Nooks, Kobo Readers, and Alex on offer there’s also something for you print book lovers? That’s right.

We also have a first edition of the groundbreaking anthology Dark Matter on offer, which has been signed by a number of the book’s contributors, including:

editor Sheree R. Thomas
Tananarive Due
DJ Spooky
Linda Addison
Ama Patterson

and more!

How much for this wonderful piece of literary awesomeness? Tickets are just $1, same as the eReaders. Click here to buy one for your chance to win.

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.