{"id":1331,"date":"2010-11-05T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:22","slug":"via-torcom-carl-brandon-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1331","title":{"rendered":"Via Tor.com: The Carl Brandon Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carlbrandon.org\/\">The Carl Brandon Society<\/a>, an organization dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity in speculative fiction, will hold a prize drawing of five eReaders to benefit the Butler Scholarship, a fund that sends two emerging writers of color to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/clarion.ucsd.edu\/\">Clarion writers workshops<\/a> annually.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>::wait, hold up::<\/p>\n<p>Did YOU know there was an organization dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity in speculative fiction??? Me neither! Color me thrilled! Carl Brandon was <i>imaginary<\/i>, a pretend African American speculative fan-fiction writer a couple of Caucasian authors made up in the 1950&#8217;s. A pretend voice, so that African Americans would eventually <i>have<\/i> a voice in the field. As made-up as James Tiptree (who was really a woman), and just as important, the Carl Brandon Society exists to make sure that the future we imagine is one that is multicultural.<\/p>\n<p><i>Established in 2006 after the author\u2019s passing, the Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship provides funds to writers of color accepted to the Clarion and Clarion West writers workshops.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read the rules and find out where to <a href=\"http:\/\/carlbrandon.org\/drawing.html\" target= _blank>buy tickets for the eReader drawing<\/a>. Support ethnic diversity in steampunk, science fiction, fantasy, and all speculative fiction! Remember the awesome that was Octavia Butler, and go read one of her books.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carl Brandon Society, an organization dedicated to racial and ethnic diversity in speculative fiction, will hold a prize drawing of five eReaders to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51,18,15],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-contest-alert","tag-happenings","tag-random-notes-and-errata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}