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Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1462
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 11:54 am: | 
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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL NOMINEES FOR THE FOURTH ANNUAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERARY AWARDS SHOW, TO TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 2008, IN HARLEM, NEW YORK.
TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS, GO TO WWW.LITERARYAWARDSHOW.COM AND CLICK ON VOTING. VOTING ENDS ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th.
THE 2008 NOMINEES ARE:
Fiction
Eric Jerome Dickey PLEASURE
Victoria Christopher Murray Too Little Too Late
Karen E. Quinones Miller Passin
Kimberla Lawson Roby - One In A Million
Science Fiction
Tananarive Due Blood Colony
Stefanie Worth Where Souls Collide
LA Banks - Bad Blood (Crimson Moon Novels)-
Brandon Massey The Other Brother
Magazine Non Literary
O (Oprah) Magazine
Uptown Magazine
Black Enterprise
Upscale Magazine
Magazine Literary
Booking Matters
SLR
Mosaic Literary
Harlem World
Mystery
Walter Mosley The Tempest Tales
Jean Holloway Ace Of Hearts
Angela Henry Divas Last Curtain A Kendra Clayton Novel
Valerie Wilson Wesley - Of Blood and Sorrow: A Tamara Hayle Mystery
Romance
Francis Ray Only You
Brenda Jackson Her Little Black Book
Trice Hickman Unexpected Interruptions
Beverly Jenkins Jewel
<b>Christian Fiction
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Kendra Norman Bellamy The Battle of Jericho
Dwan Abrams Divorcing The Devil (Urban Books)
Sherri Lewis My Soul Cries Out
Jacqueline Thomas Jezebel
<b>Street Fiction
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J.M. Benjamin Ride Or Die Chick
Jason Poole Victorias Secret
Mikal Malone Pitbulls In A Skirt
Dutch Dutch: The Finale
Erotica
Zane Honey Flava
Allison Hobbs Climax
Risque - The Sweetest Taboo: A Novel
Hazel Mills - Bare Necessities: Sensuous Tales of Passion
<b>Biography/Memoir
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C. Vivian Stringer - Standing Tall
DaShaun Jiwe Morris - War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldier's March Toward Redemption
Felicia Snoop Pearsons - Grace After Midnight: A Memoir
Stacey Patton That Mean Old Yesterday
Non-Fiction
Mayme Hatcher Johnson - Harlem Godfather: The Rap on my Husband, Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson
Lily Ratliff - The Life of a Lily: Growing in His Strength, Blooming in His
Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt and George Jenkins - The Bond
Tony Dungy - Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life )
Childrens /Young AdultBooks
Denene Milner & Mitzi Miller Hotlanta No. 1
Sharon M. Draper November Blues
Stephanie Perry Moore - Pressing Hard: Perry Skky Jr. Series #2
L. Divine - Frenemies
Poetry
Valerie Washington Soul Passion
Alice Walker - Why War Is Never a Good Idea
Jill Scott - The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott
Self-Help
Hill Harper Letters To A Young Sister
Dawn Marie Daniels & Candace Sandy - SOULS REVEALED
Terrie M. Williams Black Pain
Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint - Come on People
Cookbooks
G. Garvin Make It Super Simple
Willey Mullins Salad Makes The Meal
Wilbert Jones - Smothered Southern Foods
Humorist Award of the Year (Stand Up Comic)
Sherri Sheppard
Katt Williams
Steve Harvey
Mike Epps
Comedy Book Author of the Year
Pat GOrge-Walker - Somewhat Saved
Finesse Mitchell - Your Girlfriends Only Know So Much: A Brother's Take on Dating and Mating for Sistas
Tamara A. Johnson-George - Player HateHer: How to Avoid the Beat Down and Live in a Drama-Free World
Henri Edmonds The Georgia Avenue Bus
Break-out Author Of The Year
Darn Oldham Scent Of An Angel
Carleen Brice - Orange Mint and Honey: A Novel
Terrance Dean Hiding In Hip Hop
Dutch Dutch: The Finale
Short stories/Anthologies
Stacy Hawkins Adams, Kendra Norman-Bellamy, Linda Hudson-Smith - THIS FAR BY FAITH
Renee Alexis, Sydney Molare and Fiona Zedde Satisfy Me Again
Zane - Succulent: Chocolate Flava II
Tracy Price-Thompson, TaRessa Stovall, Elizabeth Atkins and Desiree Cooper- Other People's Skin: Four Novellas
Comic Strip
Keith Knight - The K Chronicles
Ray Billingsley Curtis
Robb Armstrong Jump Start
Stephen Bentley Herb & Jamaal
Author of the Year - Female
Victoria Christopher Murray Too Little Too Late
Nikki Turner - Black Widow: A Novel (Nikki Turner Original)
Diane McKinney-Whetstone - Trading Dreams at Midnight
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Gant - Gotta Keep on Tryin'
Author Of the Year - Male
Eric Jerome Dickey Pleasure
Walter Mosley The Tempest Tales
Shannon Holmes - Bad Girlz 4 Life
J.D. Mason - You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
Self-published Author of the Year
Brittani G. Williams Sugar Walls
Elissa Gabrielle - The Triumph Of My Soul
Shani Greene-Dowdell - Mocha Chocolate: Taste A Piece of Ecstasy
Dutch Dutch: The Finale
Independent Publishing House of the Year
KNB Publications
The Cartel Publications
Urban Books
Xpress Yourself Publishing
Publishing House of the Year
Simon & Schuster
Random House
Kimani Press
HarperCollins
Book Club of the Year
OOSA
Sugar & Spice
The Virtuous Women Book Club
Black Expressions
Television Writer of the Year
Angela Nissel Scrubs
Shonda Rhimes Greys Anatomy
Mara Brock Akil The Game
Ali LeRoi Everybody Hates Chris
Screenwriter of the Year
Tyler Perry Meet The Browns
Malcom D. Lee Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
David E. Talbert First Sunday |
Sisg
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Username: Sisg
Post Number: 322
Registered: 01-2004
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Troy, i am so happy. Jean Holloway is one of my authors. So i ask everyone to please go vote for her, and if you need a book to review, just let me know.
thanks |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1465
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 06:38 pm: |
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BTW JD Mason was placed in the wrong category. This will be corrected on the voting website. |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 630
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 09:19 pm: |
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I guess I need to get my reading on. I haven't read a single title on these lists. At least I'm writing. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12611
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 - 10:39 pm: |
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Ditto. |
Steve_s
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Username: Steve_s
Post Number: 367
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 01:23 am: |
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I guess I need to get my reading on. I haven't read a single title on these lists. At least I'm writing.
Ditto.
So instead of nominating a biography like "Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching" by Paula J. Giddings, the folks at this award have shortlisted C. Vivian Stringer. Cynique and Emanuel, Is there any particular reason that you both have apparently abandoned your usually accute critical faculties?
And what about this?:
Publishing House of the Year
Simon & Schuster
Random House
Kimani Press
HarperCollins
It's either a blatant set-up or an example of shameless sycophancy. Random House! (*rolling eyes*)
Non-Fiction
Tony Dungy - Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life )
If we have to hear about this ghosted sports bio being nominated for yet another award, can we at least learn who the author is?
This is interesting:
she saw there was a clear need to bring recognition to African American authors throughout the country.
Yes, especially now that the Hurston-Wright Legacy is not only not an African American award (because it's clearly an advantage to be born elsewhere) but apparently not a black award either, if Junot Diaz can make the shortlist. Here I'm going by City College of New York demographic categories in which "Hispanics," of which Dominicans comprise the numerical majority, constitute the largest ethnic group, followed by Blacks, Asians, and whites.
Finalist for this year's award:
FICTION
Jan Carew -- Guyana
Maryse Conde -- Guadaloupe
Junot Diaz -- Dominican Republic
Helon Habila -- Nigeria
Lawrence Hill -- Canada
Helen Oyeyemi -- Nigeria
Kwame Dawes -- Ghana
Ravi Howard -- African American
Nathan McCall -- AA
NONFICTION
Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- Somalia
Jabari Asim -- AA
Edwidge Danticat -- Haiti
Sylvianne Diouf -- France
Gerald Horne -- AA
Sherrilyn Ifil -- AA
In my opinion, African Americans and book awards have been and continue to be the subject of so much politicizing it's discouraging. What exactly is the idea behind the AA Literary Awards? Is it good works, as in the fight against illiteracy, or is it something more ideological, for instance, the idea that "art" has to be understandable to the lumpen? Or are there some surreptitious entrepreneurial undertones here?
The following is from the review posted on this forum of Stephen L. Carter's latest thriller, about the main character Eddie Wesley:
Eddie is a successful novelist (two National Book Awards before hes 40), an ambitious and cocksure doubter of conventions and rules, except in literature, where he accepted them entirely.
The stereotoype that I think Carter is trying to perpetuate is that in order to win the National Book Award, one has to "accept the rules and conventions," and we know exactly what that implies.
The same stereotype is reinforced in the recent biography by "Arnold," the hip myth that Carter is drawing on:
Like Ralph, Brooks had schooled herself as a modernist, one bent on fusing the ideas and aesthetic practices of white writers such as Eliot and Pound with the colorful reality of black America. White America had responded by awarding her its finest literary honor.
As a result, when Edward P. Jones won the Pulitzer Prize, it was just a short leap on this very forum toward accusing him of complicity.
This was the year of "Caribbean-born authors" nominated for or winning major book awards: Diaz, Danticat, and Arnold. Harriet Washington was the only African American winner that I know of. Is there anyone here who hasn't pondered the reason why? |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1470
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 08:53 am: |
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Steve_s, the African American Literary Awards Show is not that deep. It is simply a popularity contest. People submitted the names of the books to be on the list. The titles with the greatest number of submissions were made the nominees. The winning books will be the books which garnered the most number of votes during the voting process.
Since the Awards ceremony will be at the Gate House (your stomping ground) perhaps you will consider coming. AALBC.com will have a table of ten. If you are interested let me know.
The completely separate question of why "Caribbean-born authors" nominated for or winning major book awards?
Have you considered the the books written by these Black people may simply superior? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12615
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 12:16 pm: |
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My "acute critical faculties" have abandoned me, Steve. Reading books used to be my favorite pass time, but now I spend more time trying to find books that interest me than I do reading. I've become jaded.
I must say, however, that the non fiction book you mentioned about Ida B. Wells catches my eye. She is a revered figure in Chicago where she spent her adulthood and - of course - during my time at the U. of I. two of her grandsons were among my class mates. |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 631
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 09:34 pm: |
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Steve,
When I'm in the zone writing, I don't read other stuff. I did manage to finish Junot Diaz's latest though. Plus, Troy is shoots me a book to review for AALBC every now and then. When I'm out of the zone, I'll pick up reading again. Those books ain't going nowhere. |
Emanuel
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Username: Emanuel
Post Number: 632
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 09:22 am: |
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Some day I'm going to have time to really preview my posts before I post them. (Troy is shoots...)LOL! |
Nom_de_plume
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Post Number: 110
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 09:00 pm: |
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Some of these categories leave a LOT to be desired...the short story category has me in literal pain over here. LOL |
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