Carl Brandon Society
@carlbrandon.bsky.social
The Carl Brandon Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to issues of race & ethnicity in speculative fiction
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The Eaton Symposium returns!
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The Eaton Symposium returns!
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
Join us on 01/08/26 for this free online event on speculative fiction and scholarship, feat. a keynote from author Ken Liu, and panels with incredible editors such as Sheree Renée Thomas, John Joseph Adams, and many others!
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-virtu...
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✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
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Congrats @nkjemisin.bsky.social !!
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Congrats @nkjemisin.bsky.social !!
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Mid-career journalists!! Don't miss your chance to apply for the 2026 George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop to help journalists write fiction.
I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.
Deadline 1/12/26
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.
Deadline 1/12/26
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
November 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Mid-career journalists!! Don't miss your chance to apply for the 2026 George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop to help journalists write fiction.
I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.
Deadline 1/12/26
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
I have taught there twice, and it's a great chance to jump-start your fiction.
Deadline 1/12/26
www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...
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Get that coffee ready! Applications for our 2026 Novel Writing Workshop close tomorrow night (11/13).
Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Get that coffee ready! Applications for our 2026 Novel Writing Workshop close tomorrow night (11/13).
Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
Apply here: www.clarionwest.org/clarion-west...
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On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
On Monday, 11/24, join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an online program on Octavia E. Butler, speculative fiction trailblazer and author of Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy, just out from Library of America. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
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Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
otherwiseaward.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
How To Finish Your Novel - A Weekend Workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa
NEW DATE: Nov 29 - 30, 2025 @ 5PM - 7:30PM UTC
Where: Online over Zoom
Attendance is scholarship-based - deadline Nov 15!
To learn more or register: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
NEW DATE: Nov 29 - 30, 2025 @ 5PM - 7:30PM UTC
Where: Online over Zoom
Attendance is scholarship-based - deadline Nov 15!
To learn more or register: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
How To Finish Your Novel - A Weekend Workshop with Suyi Davies Okungbowa
NEW DATE: Nov 29 - 30, 2025 @ 5PM - 7:30PM UTC
Where: Online over Zoom
Attendance is scholarship-based - deadline Nov 15!
To learn more or register: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
NEW DATE: Nov 29 - 30, 2025 @ 5PM - 7:30PM UTC
Where: Online over Zoom
Attendance is scholarship-based - deadline Nov 15!
To learn more or register: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
She was a lovely human being and a fine, fine writer.
Heartbroken to say the least. My dear friend and CW classmate Celeste Rita Baker has passed away. Words aren't enough to describe what an amazing, talented, warm, and loving human being she was. The world is so much emptier now. 💔
November 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
She was a lovely human being and a fine, fine writer.
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Just heard that my work is now featured on BC BookWorld, Canada's largest-circulation independent publication about books. Glad to hear it given that Canada has an ongoing issue where it likes to pretend translators/translated literature is not a part of CanLit...
abcbookworld.com/writer/wang-...
abcbookworld.com/writer/wang-...
Wang, Yilin - ABC BookWorld
Yilin Wang is a writer, poet and Chinese-English translator based in Vancouver, Canada. Her debut book is The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets (Invisible Publish...
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October 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Just heard that my work is now featured on BC BookWorld, Canada's largest-circulation independent publication about books. Glad to hear it given that Canada has an ongoing issue where it likes to pretend translators/translated literature is not a part of CanLit...
abcbookworld.com/writer/wang-...
abcbookworld.com/writer/wang-...
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Christopher Caldwell's new collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic is evocative, vivid, sometimes humorous, and wonderfully queer and Black. Out now from Neon Hemlock. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/10/29/r...
Review: “Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic” by Christopher Caldwell
Release Date: October 14, 2025Publisher: Neon Hemlock PressGenre: Anthologies Description In these deftly written stories of the fantastic, Christopher Caldwell unravels the complicities of personh…
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October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Christopher Caldwell's new collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic is evocative, vivid, sometimes humorous, and wonderfully queer and Black. Out now from Neon Hemlock. bookjockeyalex.com/2025/10/29/r...
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
Thanks to our generous donors, our upcoming workshop How to Finish Your Novel has a limited number of free seats! All you need to do is apply for a scholarship - deadline Nov 15.
For more details: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
For more details: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
October 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Thanks to our generous donors, our upcoming workshop How to Finish Your Novel has a limited number of free seats! All you need to do is apply for a scholarship - deadline Nov 15.
For more details: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
For more details: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
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Suyi Davies Okungbowa's How to Finish Your Novel workshop has new dates - and thanks to our generous donors, all you need to do to attend is apply for a seat!
The scholarship deadline is Nov 15, and the class itself is Nov 29-30.
Learn more & apply: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
The scholarship deadline is Nov 15, and the class itself is Nov 29-30.
Learn more & apply: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Suyi Davies Okungbowa's How to Finish Your Novel workshop has new dates - and thanks to our generous donors, all you need to do to attend is apply for a seat!
The scholarship deadline is Nov 15, and the class itself is Nov 29-30.
Learn more & apply: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
The scholarship deadline is Nov 15, and the class itself is Nov 29-30.
Learn more & apply: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
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This new has been a long time in coming, but it’s finally official: Wayne Brady and I are writing a book together! But first (if you want a peek at what the working relationship of me and Wayne is like), a story …
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This new has been a long time in coming, but it’s finally official: Wayne Brady and I are writing a book together! But first (if you want a peek at what the working relationship of me and Wayne is like), a story …
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Tonight! The #travelingsffbookfestival is coming to New Haven at Possible Future Books with Elaine U Cho @itsamia.bsky.social @jrdawson.bsky.social media and @emilyjane.author !
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Tonight! The #travelingsffbookfestival is coming to New Haven at Possible Future Books with Elaine U Cho @itsamia.bsky.social @jrdawson.bsky.social media and @emilyjane.author !
Suyi Davies Okungbowa's How to Finish Your Novel workshop has new dates - and thanks to our generous donors, all you need to do to attend is apply for a seat!
The scholarship deadline is Nov 15, and the class itself is Nov 29-30.
Learn more & apply: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
The scholarship deadline is Nov 15, and the class itself is Nov 29-30.
Learn more & apply: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Suyi Davies Okungbowa's How to Finish Your Novel workshop has new dates - and thanks to our generous donors, all you need to do to attend is apply for a seat!
The scholarship deadline is Nov 15, and the class itself is Nov 29-30.
Learn more & apply: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
The scholarship deadline is Nov 15, and the class itself is Nov 29-30.
Learn more & apply: carlbrandon.org/classes/how-...
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📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions!
We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!
⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!
⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📢 Announcing our theme for the November submission period: Revolutions!
We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!
⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
We're looking for daring, subversive, and strange fiction that explores this theme!
⏰ Submissions will open on November 1. Read the full theme description and submission details: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
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Just a tiny tweak to our post: submissions are officially open from November 1 to 30! Mark your calendars and get creative ❤️🔥We can’t wait to see what you come up with! 🎉✨
October 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Just a tiny tweak to our post: submissions are officially open from November 1 to 30! Mark your calendars and get creative ❤️🔥We can’t wait to see what you come up with! 🎉✨
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We are pleased to present the 2025 Deep Dive Author Conversation Series with @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social on October 16th and Cory Doctorow on October 22nd!
Both events are free to the public or upgrade your ticket and join us for a VIP reception before the event!
Tickets available now!
Both events are free to the public or upgrade your ticket and join us for a VIP reception before the event!
Tickets available now!
September 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
We are pleased to present the 2025 Deep Dive Author Conversation Series with @danielhwilsonpdx.bsky.social on October 16th and Cory Doctorow on October 22nd!
Both events are free to the public or upgrade your ticket and join us for a VIP reception before the event!
Tickets available now!
Both events are free to the public or upgrade your ticket and join us for a VIP reception before the event!
Tickets available now!
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Come see Cory Doctorow and @edzitron.com talk about #Enshittification and the #RotEconomy with @clarionwest.bsky.social on Oct. 22nd! In person in Seattle or free online. secure.clarionwest.org/np/clients/c...
#authortalk #scifi #seattlelibrary
#authortalk #scifi #seattlelibrary
Enshittification and the Rot Economy: A Deep Dives Conversation with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron
Join Cory Doctorow (Enshittification), Ed Zitron (Better Offline), and moderator Whitney Beltrán for a discussion of how reckless tech policy created an enshittogenic environment that allowed the wors...
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September 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Come see Cory Doctorow and @edzitron.com talk about #Enshittification and the #RotEconomy with @clarionwest.bsky.social on Oct. 22nd! In person in Seattle or free online. secure.clarionwest.org/np/clients/c...
#authortalk #scifi #seattlelibrary
#authortalk #scifi #seattlelibrary
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otherwiseaward.org/2025/10/appl...
Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.
#Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi
Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.
#Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi
Apply for Otherwise Fellowships by December 15! « Otherwise Award
The Otherwise Motherboard is now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows! Each Fellow receives USD $500 in support of a new or ongoing project. Please apply by December 15.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
otherwiseaward.org/2025/10/appl...
Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.
#Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi
Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.
#Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi
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Join us tonight (Wednesday) in Baltimore for a panel discussion on the power of what if! With me, Ray Nayler, @sarahpinsker.bsky.social , @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social , and @juliavee.bsky.social at Greedy Reads Remington!
October 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Join us tonight (Wednesday) in Baltimore for a panel discussion on the power of what if! With me, Ray Nayler, @sarahpinsker.bsky.social , @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social , and @juliavee.bsky.social at Greedy Reads Remington!
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Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured.
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Lost Ark Dreaming wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella (full acceptance speech) — Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella. Full acceptance speech follows.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured.
suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards
suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
October 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction: Metal From Heaven by August Clarke! 🎉🎉🎉 @sapphomancer.bsky.social @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards