desire to help make the future of science fiction more diverse — and possibly win an e - book reader full of amazing writing by writers of colour ? figure theCarl Brandon Society ’s drawingto support the Octavia Butler Memorial Scholarship fund .
The Octavia Butler Scholarship send two author of color to the Clarion writer shop every year . It ’s machinate by the Carl Brandon Society , “ an organization dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity in speculative fabrication . ” And this class , the Carl Brandon Society is holding a fundraiser , with prizes including five vitamin E - lector . ( You pick out which twist you want to enter the drafting for , and then purchase tickets for that particular raffle . )
Here are the details , via a wardrobe release :
In celebrate with the Society ’s support of lit from and about people of gloss , the prize let in five eReaders : two Barnes & Noble Nooks , two Kobo Readers , and one Alex eReader from Spring Design . Each eReader will come pre - loaded with books , poor stories and essay by author of color from the speculative fabrication subject . Writers admit : N. K. Jemisin , Nisi Shawl , Alaya Dawn Johnson , Terence Taylor , Ted Chiang , Shweta Narayan , Chesya Burke , Moondancer Drake , Saladin Ahmed , Rochita Loenen - Ruiz and more . …
The drawing ’s tickets will cost one dollar US ( $ 1 ) and can be purchased athttp://carlbrandon.org/drawing.html . Entrants may purchase an inexhaustible numeral of tickets , which will be available from November 5 , 2010 through November 22nd , 2010 . Sales will shut at 11:59PM EDT on November 22nd . Winners will be draw indiscriminately from a digital “ hat ” and declare online .
To buy tickets , read details about the eReaders , or to hear more about the Carl Brandon Society , please visit carlbrandon.org/drawing.html .
It ’s a groovy case , and you could get yourself some great reading material into the bargain . [ Carl Brandon Society ]
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