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     Troy Johnson "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Troy Post Number: 229 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
AALBC.com is pleased to host a literary salon featuring readings from the book Dark Matter: Reading the Bones.  The editor Sheree R. Thomas and contributing writers ihsan bracy, and Kevin S. Brockenbrough will read from this fascinating compilation of "Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora". After the reading there will be a Q&A session and book signing. Refreshments will be provided. Copies of Dark Matter: Reading the Bones will be available for purchase. All forms of payment will be accepted. RSVP by March 11th. Please keep in mind that space is limited. Only respond "yes" if you definitely plan to attend -- you may always change your response via Evite if your plans change. About the Editor: Sheree R. Thomas is the editor of Dark Matter: Reading the Bones and Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, winner of the 2001 World Fantasy Award and named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her short fiction and poetry appears in So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy edited by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera, Role Call and other collections. A NYFA Fellow and Cave Canem Fellow, her poetry received Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Horror and Fantasy: Sixteenth annual edition. About the Contributors Attending: ihsan bracy, artist, author, and educator, is a graduate of Bennington College in Vermont and the author of two plays, Against the Sun, the Southampton Slave Revolt of 1831 and N'toto, a spirit play, as well as two volumes of poetry, cadre and the ubangi files. Twice a CAPS finalist in poetry, he is a former member of the New York State Council on the Arts and a member of the New Renaissance Writers Guild. He is currently working on a novel. Kevin S. Brockenbrough, a.k.a. "Brock," is a writer of the stories you'd find "if you did a Vulcan Mind Meld with Stephen King and Spike Lee." He gives thanks to Gil Scott-Heron for inspiring him to write and New York's Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center for helping him polish his skills. A graduate of Clark Atlanta University's MBA program, Brock works for a large Black ad agency, helping deprogram Fortune 500 executives who think all African Americans are poor and drink malt liquor. He is also a member of the Organization of Black Screenwriters, and is currently shopping two screenplays "full of Black folks, black magic and black humor." He lives in Newark, New Jersey. For more information about Dark Matter: Reading the Bones please visit http://authors.aalbc.com/sheree.htm To RSVP Visit (paste the entire line below into your browser: www.evite.com/troy@aalbc.com/darkmatter (RSVP Required) | ||
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