Octavia Butler Fans

This article was mentioned by Tananarive Due on Facebook:

Octavia Butler's papers going to the Huntington Library.



Also, I'll mention again the Octavia Butler event occurring this evening in San Francisco: Color Me SF: The Science Fiction Worlds of Octavia Butler and Carl Brandon. The current speaker line-up includes Jewelle Gomez, Claire Light and Marta Acosta.

http://www.litquake.org/festival-s…

http://www.sfinsf.org/

There is a $5 admission for the event (to go to the Octavia E. Butler Scholarship Fund).

LitQuake, an annual literary event in San Francisco, just announced their schedule for this year:

http://www.litquake.org/festival-s…


SATURDAY, October 10

Color Me SF: The Science Fiction Worlds of Octavia Butler and Carl Brandon, 7:00 p.m. Variety Club Screening Room, 582 Market.


(Update)
And because I'm slow, it only now occurred to me it might be an "SF in SF"-related event ... and it is! http://www.sfinsf.org/?p=943


Hope to see you there!

Do you exist? Are you a POC and reader of SF/F? If so, there's a unicorn roll-call.

The reason is Lois McMaster Bujold seems surprised that there are so many POC sci-fi/fantasy genre fans. She figures we didn't exist until the internet happened.

Hmmm, I wonder what that says about Octavia and those of us who love her. 

Hope this year has been a good one so far for everyone.

This marks three years since Ms. Butler's passing, but hopefully there are good things in store for us, such as ...

"Looking for artists for Octavia Butler graphic novel" post by desayunoencama:
http://desayunoencama.livejournal.…


Also, in San Francisco later this year there might be an Octavia Butler panel at a literary event. Stay tuned.

Hello, Butleristas! I posted a few months back asking for help fleshing out an article about humans and aliens mating in sci fi--and my thanks again for all the ideas you pitched in. Originally I had conceived the article as just being about Butler's distinctive ideas about xenogenesis, but it grew into a sweeping survey of the topic--with a huge chunk of Butler as the culmination of the article.

Anyway, just wanted to mention that the article just got published in the current issue of the feminist magazine Bitch. Should be on magazine racks and library shelves even now. Would love to hear your ideas on how it turned out! Starts off with a full-page "family snapshot" of Judith and her Oankali family...Feels good to keep nudging her work into some small spotlight or another, I gotta say.

There will never be another Octavia...but I'm curious to hear whom folks think of in the same regard. Who is the author where you think what they speak of, who they are, where they're coming from, and all that jazz clicks into place for you?

Applications for this year's Clarion West Writers Workshop must be RECEIVED by March 1. March 2nd is too late. (Please note that this deadline is a month earlier than it was in previous years.)

We recommend that after February 24 applicants send their materials via email to ensure that they arrive on time. Our newly redesigned website makes this easier than ever.

The upcoming session (June 22 to August 1) will be taught by Paul Park, Mary Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow, Connie Willis, Sheree R. Thomas, and Chuck Palahniuk, our 2008 Susan C. Petrey Fellow. For information on the workshop, scholarships, and how to apply, visit our website at www.clarionwest.org/workshop.

Clarion West is a non-profit literary organization committed to equal opportunity. Minority and special-needs students are encouraged to apply.

Hello, Octavia Butler fans!

I'm hoping you can help me brainstorm. Octavia Butler uses the concept of 'xenogenesis' in many of her works (not just the Lillith's Brood trilogy), and I'm working on an article for a magazine that explores this concept of, well, deliberately breeding with alien critters.

What *other* science fiction can you think of that explores this theme? Or does it come up in other pop-culture realms beyond scifi?

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Both the Clarion and Clarion West Writing Workshops have changed their application deadlines to March 1 for their 2008 sessions. The joint decision to move the deadlines forward by one full month will ensure that successful applicants have more time to prepare for six weeks of writing, critiquing, and studying with some of fantasy and science fiction’s top authors and editors. It also allows more time for organizations sponsoring workshop scholarships to select recipients.

“It’s never easy to carve such a large chunk of time out of your life,” Clarion West Executive Director Leslie Howle said. “The earlier students receive notice that they’ve been accepted into the workshop, the better prepared they’ll be when they arrive in Seattle.”

“This will give our student writers extra time to plan for their Clarion experience,” said James Patrick Kelly, Vice Chair of the Clarion Foundation. “We want to get the word out well ahead of time, since it’s a change from our longstanding policy.”

Clarion, founded in 1968, and now in its second year on the campus of the University of California, San Diego, is run by the non-profit Clarion Foundation. Their website is at clarion.ucsd.edu/.

Clarion West, a non-profit organization, has presented the Clarion West Writers Workshop annually in Seattle, Washington since 1984. Their website is at www.clarionwest.org.