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at blackpotmojo she writes:

My first short story and poetry chapbook, SHOTGUN LULLABIES, is available now from Aqueduct Press (Seattle, WA)!

It is Volume 28 in their award-winning "Conversation Pieces Series."

Sheree is the editor of Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora.

So I completely missed that king maker by maurice broaddus came out last month; I will admit that while I have it and have enjoyed what i read of it, it was so intense I had to put it down for a while. It's been described as being about gangbangers but I would say they are random competing independent pharmaceutical distributors, not from the crips ( Read more... )

The Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund eReader Drawing:

The Carl Brandon Society is holding a prize drawing of five eReaders starting November 1st and ending November 22nd, 2010. The funds raised will benefit the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship, a fund that sends two emerging writers of color to the Clarion writers workshops ( Read more... )

Wanna see? Of course you do!

will be published in December, with a roster that includes: Mikki Kendall, Shweta Narayan, Amal El-Mohtar, and NK Jemisin and a whole bunch of other fabulous people.