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The Wheatley Book Awards

The Wheatley Book Awards celebrates 40 Years of Black Book Publishing and launches the Flora Mwapa Literary Award as the opening event of the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Harlem Book Fair.

When:
Friday, July 18. Doors open at 7:00pm

Where:
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (West 135th Street at Lenox Avenue), Harlem New York.

Dress:

Business/Evening Attire

This will be a public, red carpet award program that honors the founders of modern black publishing and those who contribute to African community letters. Join authors, celebrities, publishers and readers like you for a night of entertainment and celebration. Hosted by NY1 television personality, Dominic Carter and author Relentless Aaron. Music by the Tyrone Birkett Group.

HONOREES (PUBLISHING):
Haki Madhubuti (Third World Press - 40 years); W. Paul Coates (Black Classic Press - 30 years); Kassahun Checole (Africa World Press - 25 years); Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson (Just Us Books - 20 years); and Tony Rose (Amber Books - 10 years).

HONOREE (LETTERS):

Dr. Tess Onwueme, novelist, playwright and scholar, will be the recipient of the first Flora Mwapa Literary Award, given to a deserving African writer whose work has contributed to and inspired the African community, both in the U.S. and abroad.


This is a free fundraising event to support the Harlem Book Fair's mission to evolve into an international Black World Book Festival so don't forget your checkbook! You may reserve your seat at rsvp@qbr.com. For additional information call QBR at 212.348.1681 or the Schomburg Center at 212.491.2206. Our telephones are very busy. Please be patient!

The 10th Anniversary HARLEM BOOK FAIR 
 
In association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Street Fair July 19, 2008

The outdoor festival will be held on Saturday, July 19, from 11 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on West 135th Street between Malcolm X Blvd. to Frederick Douglass Blvd.

 

Panel Discussions and Workshops -  Saturday July 19th
All panels subject to change visit www.qbr.com for the latest information


QBR/C-SPAN BookTV AUTHOR DISCUSSIONS (Nonfiction)

http://www.qbr.com/page12740.asp

SCHOMBURG/LANGSTON HUGHES AUDITORIUM
515 Malcolm X Blvd., corner of West 135th Street

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM 40 YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLISHING
Moderator: Max Rodriguez (QBR The Black Book Review)
Panelists: Haki Madhubuti (Third World Publishing); W. Paul Coates (Black Classic Press); Kassahun Checole (Africa World Press); Cheryl Willis Hudson and Wade Hudson (Just Us Books); and Tony Rose (Amber Books)

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM JAMES BALDWIN: PERSPECTIVES and LITERARY LEGACY
Moderator: Herb Boyd (Baldwin's Harlem)
Panelists: Quincy Troupe (Miles and Me), Amiri Baraka (Tales of the Out and Gone); S. Pearl Sharp (Black Women for Beginners), Cora Daniels (Ghetto Nation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless)

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM WHY WE DIE FIRST: SELF-NEGLECT OR THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN?
Moderator Bert M. Petersen, Jr., M.D.
Panelists: Hayley Thompson, Harriet A. Washington (Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present)

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM FROM THE DOOR OF NO RETURN: THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE ABOLITION OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE TO THE U.S.
Moderator: Howard Dodson (Ideology, Identity, and Assumptions)
Panelists: Rosanne Marion Adderley (New Negroes from Africa: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-century Caribbean); Sylviane A. Diouf (Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Last Africans Brought to America); David Eltis (Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database); Thomas Norman DeWolf (Inheriting the Trade: A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History)

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM NO ROAD BACK: THE 1961 MISSISSIPPI FREEDOM RIDERS
Moderator: Eric Etheridge (Editor, Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders)
Panelists: Robert Singleton (former Freedom Rider, Contributor, Breach of Peace), Helen Singleton (former Freedom Rider, Contributor, Breach of Peace), John Gager (former Freedom Rider, Contributor, Breach of Peace)
 

COUNTEE CULLEN AUTHOR DISCUSSIONS (Fiction)
http://www.qbr.com/page12742.asp

COUNTEE CULLEN LIBRARY AUDITORIUM
132 West 136th Street, corner of Malcolm X Boulevard

SATURDAY, JULY 19
12:00 � 1:30p GAY AND LESBIAN FICTION: Resistance in the Marketplace?

Moderator: Troy Johnson (Founder AALBC.com)
Panelists: Terrance Dean (Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--From Music to Hollywood); Hickson (Ghettoheat); Linda Villarosa (Passing for Black)

1:45 � 2:30p YOU CAN�T BOX ME IN: The (R)Evolution of Spoken Word Poetry
Moderator: Jameel Adams
Panelists: Tantra, (Sacred), J. Ivey (Life After Life), Helena D. Lewis (Call Me Crazy), Vanessa Hidary (Culture Bandit)
 

2:45 � 3:30p SINS OF THE FATHER: HOW FATHERS IMPACT DAUGHTERS RELATIONSHIPS
Moderated by The Flow (Marc Collins, Angelo Hunt, Roy Frank)
Panelists: Jonetta Rose Barras (Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?: The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women); Randy Williams (Filmmaker, Fathers and their Impact on Daughters Relationships); Grace Cornish (You Deserve Healthy Love, Sis!: The Seven Steps to Getting the Relationship You Want); D. E. Brown (Fatherless)
 

THURGOOD MARSHALL AUTHOR DISCUSSIONS (Fiction)
http://www.qbr.com/page12741.asp

TMA (THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY)  - Gymnasium
214 West 135th Street, corner of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard

SATURDAY, JULY 19
1:00 � 2:15pm CYPRIAN EKWENSI: JAGUA NANA and ONITSHA MARKET LITERATURE
Moderator: Chudi Uwazurike, (Uzo Nwanna and the Song of a Thousand Tunes)
Panelists: Ernest Emenyonu (The Rise of the Igbo Novel); Kurt Thometz (Life Turns Man Up and Down); Marie Umeh (Flora Nwapa: A Pen and A Press); Olotosin Mustapha; George C Ekwensi

2:15 � 3:30pm FROM HEROES AND HEROINES TO PIMPS AND HO�S: The Impact of the African American Romance Novel on Street Fiction
Moderator: Donna Hill (Wicked Ways)
Panelists: Gwynne Foster (Obsession); Deborah Johnson (The Air Between Us); Sandra Kitt (TK); Leslie Esdaille (TK)

3:45 � 5:00pm NOIR IN HARLEM: Groundbreaking Authors Explore the Dark Side of New York
Moderator: Kenji Jasper (The House on Childress Street)
Panelists: Sandra Kitt, Errol Louis

HBF Publishing Pavilion

COUNTEE CULLEN LIBRARY (MEZZANINE)  - SATURDAY, JULY 19
132 West 136th Street, corner of Malcolm X Boulevard
 

Seminars Sponsored by HBF Publishing.
http://www.qbr.com/page12743.asp

Room A
1:00 � 2:00pm Content Control Publishing: The Pros and Cons of Digital Publishing (DIY)
2:15 � 3:30pm Low Cost/No Cost Marketing
3:45 � 5:00pm CMS Technology for Authors & Publishers

Room B
1:00 � 2:15pm From Inspiration to Publication: A Writing Workshop with Author Grace Edwards
2:30 � 4:30pm DIY Manuscript Review/Editor Interview Workshop

Young Readers Pavilion

TMA (THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY) - SATURDAY, JULY 19
214 West 135th Street, corner of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Boulevard

12:30 � 1:30pm Elements of a Successful Children's Book
Moderator: Irene Smalls
Panelists: Linda Trice (Kenya's Word); Bernette Ford, Publisher ColorBridge Books; Eric Velasquez (Illustrator); Janet Hubert (J.G. and the B.C. Kids)

3:15 � 4:15pm Comic Books: What's the Story within the StoryY
Room TBA (WORKSHOP)
Facilitator: Jerry Craft (Mamasboyz)

3:00 � 4:00pm Writing for the YA Market
Room 303 (PANEL DISCUSSION)
Moderator: Clara Villarosa (Founder, Hue-Man Bookstore)
Panelists: Rita Garcia-Williams (No Laughter Here); Jaira Placide (Fresh Girl); Jennifer Burton (Topeka Heights)

HBF Financial Pavilion
http://www.qbr.com/page12767.asp

SCHOMBURG/AMERICAN NEGRO THEATRE SATURDAY, JULY 19
515 Malcolm X Blvd., corner of West 135th Street

12pm � 2:00pm Your Money is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Seizing Your Financial Power!
Moderator: Sabrina Lamb, Founder, WorldofMoney.org
Panelists: Lynnette Kalfani-Cox (Zero Debt, Your First Home); Duane Harden (Harlem Funding.com), Robin Young (Merrill Lynch); Derrick Barnes (New York Life) Darrell Washington (Creditminded.com); Manyell Akinfe (Primerica)

4:00pm � 5:30pm Changing the Mindset for Wealth

Edgar J. Ridley, Author and President, Edgar J. Ridley Associates

Volunteers Needed

Volunteers
http://www.qbr.com/page8685.asp

Read Volunteer Areas of Interest and Descriptions and select an area of interest. Email your Name, Address, Telephone, Email Address, Area of interest, and Time Commitment to volunteer@qbr.com. We will contact you immediately to confirm your participation. Thank you!

 

 

HOT BOOK FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME II

On Sunday July 20th, the day after the Harlem Book Fair street festival, come Join Linda Duggins, AALBC.com, Black Expressions Book Club, Mosaicbooks and Pier 66 for an Outdoor party on the water to celebrate books

When:
Sunday, July 20, 2008
2:00 pm � until the music stops

Where:
Pier 66A
26th Street & 12th Avenue

Why:
Celebrate the summer with some of the HOTTEST titles for the taking. Readings, dancing and refreshments - an afternoon by the water to relax and take a moment for you!

Participating Authors:

Abiola Abrams

Author of DARE

You may know as host of BETJ's The Best Shorts, is an artist to watch. Actually, scratch that. She's an artist who you should continue to watch because homegirl has been doing her thing as a filmmaker and writer for quite some time. She just dropped her first book, DARE, a hip-hop inspired retelling of Faust with a feminist twist. Shorter description: a damn good book.

Herb Boyd

Author of Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin

Boyd is an awarding winning author and journalist who has published sixteen books and countless articles for national magazines and newspapers. Brotherman�The Odyssey of Black Men in America�An Anthology (One World/Ballantine, 1995), co-edited with Robert Allen of the Black Scholar journal, won the American Book Award for nonfiction. In 1999, Boyd won three first place awards from the New York Association of Black Journalists for his articles published in the Amsterdam News.

Breena Clarke

Author of Stand the Storm and the Oprah Book Club� Selection River, Cross My Heart.

Clarke grew up in Washington, D.C., and was educated at Webster College and Howard University. Her writings have appeared in the anthologies Contemporary Plays by Women of Color and Street Lights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience. She currently administers the Editorial Diversity Program at Time Inc. in New York City. She lives in New Jersey.  

Renee Daniel Flagler (Renee will MC this event)

Author of In Her Mind

Renee Daniel Flagler is the President and CEO of Aspicomm Media, an author and an award winning freelance writer who has served in marketing, promotions and events for more than a decade. Under the divisions of Aspicomm Media, Flagler has been able to marry the things she enjoys the most; marketing, events and writing, into one fulfilling personal career.   She is also the founder of Self-Publishing Symposium and the Diva's of Literature Tour.

Felicia Pride

Author of The Message

Pride also the coauthor of the young adult anthology Hallway Diaries (Harlequin/Kimani Tru, September 2007) and the author of Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Simon & Schuster, September 2007), a chapter book in the literary series based on the award-winning television show Everybody Hates Chris. Felicia has been an invited speaker at various events and panels and serves on the board for the Literary Freedom Project. She has a M.A. in writing and publishing from Emerson College and is based in Maryland.

David Rivera Jr.

Author of Playing in the Dark

His first book, Harlem's Dragon, has been met with great enthusiasm by other writers � most notably by Zane, as well as literary critics. In a recent interview, David admitted that the sex scenes depicted in his writings are taken from some of his personal experiences and enhanced for the entertainment of his readers. He enjoys the erotic writing of Anne Rice and hopes to master a full spectrum of writing genres just as she has. As a man of color, David has taken on the task of showing African American men in a more positive light in his writing.

Photos from the SUMMERTIME I 2006