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
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 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)
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
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)
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
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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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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. 
In
association with the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture
Seminars
Sponsored by HBF Publishing.
Volunteers
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
Abiola Abrams
Herb Boyd
Renee Daniel
Flagler
Felicia Pride
David Rivera Jr.
