The Center for Black Literature invites vendors to exhibit/sell their work at the Medgar Evers College Campus on Friday, March 30, 2012 through Sunday, April 1, 2012.

How Do I Become a Vendor?

Step 1:
Download and complete the Vendor Application

Please follow the directions detailed in the form. Your application will be reviewed by the NBWC Committee.

The deadline to submit your application is Friday, February 24, 2012.
Application Fee: $10.00 (US)

Step 2:
If you [or your company] is selected, you will be issued official notification by our Vendor Coordinator. You will be asked to complete a Registration Form. YOU ARE NOT CONFIRMED AS A VENDOR UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED NOTICE.

Vending Fees:
Non –Profit -registration fee: $100.00 (US). 1 table.
Non –Profit – registration fee: $200.00 (US). 2 tables.
Vendor / General- registration fee: $200.00 (US). 1 tables.
Vendor / General – registration fee: $400.00 (US). 2 tables.

The deadline to submit your Registration Fee is Friday, March 9, 2012.
Space is limited. If your payment has not been received by this office by this date, your table will be offered to a vendor on the waiting list. Please submit payment with the Registration Form. Retain a copy for your records.

Step 3:
A Confirmation letter will be forwarded to you once all of the fees have been received. Please bring this letter when you check –in at the Conference.

How Are Vendors Selected?

Artists/ Business/ Non-profit Organizations/ Other – we accept a limited but wide range of vendors. Selected vendors will be based on the application pool. The Committee will select a balance of jewelry, clothing, books, and other vendors.

For Authors / Book sellers – content in addition to presentation is considered in the selection process. Individual/ Independent authors and small publishing houses with multiple titles are encouraged to apply; however, please note that it is very challenging to be successful at vending in this space if you are a new writer, one who may not be considered “mainstream”, and are not participating on a panel. (Panelists are selected by invitation only.)

Are Vendors able to share tables? Yes. However, if a table is being shared by multiple parties the following must be adhered to:
Each party must submit their information as outlined in the application.
The space is limited and we ask that each vendor and team remain confined to their assigned area.

http://www.nationalblackwritersconference.org/vendor.html

Thank you,

Atim Annette Oton
Vendor Coordinator

At Hue-Man Bookstore – JANUARY 2012 EVENTS:

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 6PM
DARRIN DEWITT HENSON
INTIMATE THOUGHTS
Actor, writer, producer, philanthropist and choreographer, Darrin has been seen on many movies such as Soul Food, and has worked with major artists such as Prince, Michael Jackson and Usher to name a few…Join him for an evening of intimate thoughts…

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26TH 6PM
HUE-MAN BOOKCLUB
WARMTH OF OTHER SUNS
Reading group will meet at 6Pm to discuss “Warmth of Other Suns”. All Welcomed…

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 6PM
DEVON JOHNSON
LOVE YOURSELF FIRST
Dwight Jones was a successful business executive. He knew corporate America was not for him. Teaming one of his dear friends Issiah who worked in fashion, they started their own fashion consulting business, Vondel Consulting. Joan Murphy was an up-and-coming shoe designer. All is well until Joan finds coal in the diamonds. Joan refusing to let go of her dream does whatever it takes to make it. Dwight and Issiah finds themselves wrapped up in a world of drama as scandals, lies, and deceit began to unravel.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 29TH 3PM
STICKFLY READING AND TALK BACK WITH LYDIA R. DIAMOND.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 6PM
WALTER MOSLEY
ALL I DID WAS SHOOT MY MAN
No big Deal…I simply shot my man. The fourth in the New Mystery series from Mosley.

FIND US
Hue-Man Bookstore
2319 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BLVD
NEW YORK, New York 10027
212-665-6400
www.huemanbookstore.com

Help us pay our writers & artists in 2012!

Terray thought that he could fit them in one pair of shoes.
No doubt he was confused in the choices that he has made or has to make.

Monae isn’t taking it or is she?
Denice wasn’t all that or was she?

If you want to experience a novel with a dash of drama, sprinkled with sexually stimulating confusion, and mixed up with chaos; experience Zoleka’z Essence of a Gemini.

This fictional novel is one of the author’s books in her Essence of Zoleka series, which aims to inspire, and shed hope; to all those who have gone or are going through something.

Read an Excerpt

Related Article(s):

Interview with guest speaker Author Zoleka Montgomery

The Eleventh National Black Writers Conference

The Impact of Migration, Popular Culture, and the Natural Environment
in the Literature of Black Writers

Thursday, March 29, 2012 – Sunday, April 1, 2012

Overview

As our society becomes increasingly globalized, the themes in the literary texts and literature created by black writers throughout the African diasporic communities of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe are shifting and expanding in varying ways. There is recognition of the importance and value of preserving cultural memory and identity and of cultivating and nurturing cultural and geographical spaces. At the same time, there is also a recognition that politics and popular culture shape what we respond to, what we read, what gets published, what we teach, and what conversations we have in our literary communities, in the media, in our educational institutions, in our work environments, and in our homes.

Through novels, stories, poems, plays, memoirs, and essays, black writers have explored the importance of memory on our concepts of self and family. They have examined the impact of popular culture on our personal lives, belief systems, values, and traditions. And they have chronicled what happens when we neglect and do not nurture our natural environment. In essence, they have used the power of words and the literary arts to stir our imagination and to motivate us to affirm, critique, and reflect on our responses to personal, societal, and environmental issues in our lives. The Eleventh National Black Writers Conference will provide writers, scholars, literary professionals, students, and the general public with a forum for engaging in dynamic and spirited conversations, panel discussions, readings, workshops, and performances on themes related to migration, cultural memory, popular culture, and the natural environment.

Major funding provided by: National Endowment for the Arts

Media support provided by: African American Literature Book Club, AKILA Worksongs, Inc.

2012 NBWC Honorees

Ishmael Reed – John Oliver Killens Lifetime Achievement Award

Ng?g? wa Thiong’o – W. E. B. Du Bois Award

Nikki Giovanni – Gwendolyn Brooks Award

Dr. Howard Dodson – Ida B. Wells Institutional Leadership Award

REGISTER NOW

Date: 23rd – May 26th
Location: New York

The leading event in North American publishing returns to NYC with even more content and more buzz to help you see and learn what’s new and what’s next.

Here’s what they have in store for you this year designed to save you money and help you generate more business. You’ll see new features and the return of existing favorites…

• NEW! BEA expands back to a three day exhibit hall with four days of conference—the industry demanded more time to do business after a successful 2010 event so we listened!
• NEW! Co-location with BlogWorld & New Media Expo, access the exhibit hall FREE with your BEA badge. Upgrade your BEA badge to include the BlogWorld conference.
• NEW! Audio Publisher’s Association (APA) Tea Returns.
• NEW! Co-location with Book Blogger Convention, Friday, May 27, 2011.
• NEW! APA Conference to be held at the Javits Center.
• NEW! Shorter exhibit hall hours to allow for more off site evening networking Tue: 9-5, Wed: 9-5 and Thu: 9-3

A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart’s allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow presiding.
Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood , as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars.

Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, ‘The Third Eye,’ copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works..

According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that ‘credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.’ These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart’s original work and that it had been ‘often used during preparation of the motion pictures.’  The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart’s case dismissed, without success.

Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers.  One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story.

Others are suspicious and mocking. ‘It doesn’t bother me,’ said Stewart in a phone interview last week, ‘I always knew what was true.’

Read rest of story here

Related Articles:

A Conversation with Sophia Stewart The Mother of the Matrix

Deadline for entry: November 30, 2009

The Santa Fe Trail Creative Arts Guild, dba Creative Arts Council, is accepting applications for the 2010 Annual Self Published Fiction Book Awards. The competition is open to self-published fictional books that were published or revised and reprinted between 2000 and 2009. All book submissions must be published in English.

The grand-prize winner will receive $500 and a personalized plaque. Entrants to previous contests are welcome to submit again. The first place winner will receive $100 and a notable award certificate.

For information about the guidelines visit:

http://www.creativeartscouncil.org/bookcontest.html

Deadline for entry: November 25, 2009.

The 2009 London Book Festival has issued a call for entries for its annual program celebrating books that deserve greater recognition from the international publishing community. The festival will consider self-published entries in general non-fiction, fiction, poetry, children’s books, science fiction, comics, eBooks, romance,  photography/art, audio/spoken word, biography/autobiography, teenage, music and wild card. The publication date must be on or after January 1, 2001, and entries can be in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian.

The entry fee is $50. Multiple entries must be accompanied by a separate fee for each book. Entrants pay all shipping and handling costs. Entries must be classified with a particular category.

The 2009 London Book Festival will consider published, self-published and independent publisher non-fiction, poetry, photography/art, fiction, children’s books, teenage, how-to, audio/spoken word, comics, e-books, wild card (anything goes!), science fiction, romance and biography/autobiography works.

A panel of judges will determine the winners based on the following criteria:

1. The story-telling ability of the author;
2. The potential of the work to win wider recognition from the international publishing community.
3. Entries can be in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese or Italian. Books published from Jan. 1, 2001 forward are eligible. Our grand prize for the 2009 London Book Festival Author of the Year is $1500 and a flight to London OR a flight to Los Angeles – your choice!

For a complete list of rules and additional information, visit the complete list of guidelines at: The 2009 London Book Festival.

Deadline for entry: October 25, 2009

The 2009 Nashville Book Festival has issued a call for entries for its annual program celebrating the best in regional, national and international literature. The festival will consider entries in general non-fiction, fiction, biography/autobiography, children’s books, cookbooks, eBooks, how-tos, genre-based, compilations/anthologies, spiritual, photography/art, teenage /young adult, music and wild cards. The publication date must be on or after January 1, 2001, and entries must be in English.

The grand prize for the 2009 Nashville Book Festival winner is $1,500 and a flight to Nashville for the gala award ceremony. Submitted works will be judged by a panel of publishing industry experts according to the author’s ability to tell a story and unique use of marketing tactics to reach a wider audience.

The entry fee is $50. Multiple entries must be accompanied by a separate fee for each book. Entrants pay all shipping and handling costs. Entries must be classified with a particular category.

For a complete list of rules and additional information, visit the complete list of guidelines at: The 2009 Nashville Book Festival.