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sanguinity ([personal profile] sanguinity) wrote in [community profile] 50books_poc2009-04-10 10:30 am
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Need a Recommendation? Got a recommendation?

It's been nearly a month since the last one -- let's have another recs post!

First, a reminder that book club is coming up -- next weekend, April 19th, we're going to discuss Octavia Butler's Kindred. (Much thanks to [livejournal.com profile] nightchik for organizing it!)

Second, we've been adding stuff to the 50books_poc del.icio.us. (Again. Still. More.) Here's a bunch of the new stuff:
  • Booklists
  • POC-centric publishers:
    • Huia Publishers -- Māori books: novels, plays, histories, biographies, politics, and language; both adult and children.
    • Magabala Books -- Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, "Australia's oldest independent indigenous publishing house."
    • Indij Readers -- literacy materials for indigenous and non-indigenous Australian children learning to read and write.
    • African Writers Series -- UK publishing imprint
    • Peepal Tree Press -- Caribbean and Black British fiction, poetry, lit crit, memoirs, historical studies.

  • Awards (children and young adult):
  • Awards (adult):
  • Online Literary Journals
    • Sable -- for new writers of color; international. Mostly print, but occasional full-text stories and articles are published on the website.
    • African Writing Online -- creative short fiction, essays, poetry, drama and art primarily from African writers and artists; published in the U.K.
    • Meskot -- Ethiopian online literary journal.
    • Kwani? -- Kenyan online literary magazine.
    • Sea Breeze -- Liberian online literary magazine.
    • One Ghana, One Voice -- blog for Ganaian poetry; new poem published every week.

  • Other Resources for African Writers
  • Publishing Industry
    • WriteBlack -- "Welcome to WriteBlack, where I write about the vagaries of the publishing industry and occasionally praise, occasionally criticize and always pick the nits of books written by black authors — with special attention paid to genre writers. "
    • GalleyCat - People of Color -- weekly column featuring people of color in the publishing industry: books, authors, agents, publicists, etc.

  • Other Stuff
In addition to the ebooks tag (which has new links as of April 3rd, not all of which are listed above), there's now an eshortworks tag. I added an academic tag because I know someone (sorry, I've forgotten who!) was looking for academic-voiced resources, and there's a poc-centric-booksellers tag for people who are trying to make conscious decisions about where they spend their money.

If you have a link to add, either drop it in the comments here or:
  1. Add 50books_poc to your del.icio.us network.
  2. Save the link to your account and tag it "for:50books_poc".


On to the recs! If you're looking books in a particular genre or on a particular topic -- or simply want to say, "Hey, I liked THIS book, what else would you recommend?" -- leave a comment. With luck, someone might have just the rec for you. ;-)

A cartoonist of color

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