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- Register NOW for the 19th BLACK BOOK AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN BLACK
LITERATURE: June 4, 5 & 6, 2010 Southampton County, VA
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THE 19th UBUS BLACK BOOK AWARDS
FOR EXCELLENCE IN BLACK LITERATURE
Presented First Weekend in June, 4, 6 &
6, 2010
SOUTHAMPTON,
VIRGINIA
JANUARY 17, 2010 – Black writers, publishers,
distributors, sellers and patrons are notified to prepare to attend and
participate in the 19th Annual Black Books Award. For the 19th
year the literature of books that are written, by Black people will be
celebrated in a setting that both validate their work and provide an
opportunity to promote and sell it.
Celebrated over a period of three days, all activities will be in The
Nat Turner Reference Library at The Khalifah Estates,
26070 Barhams Hills Road, Drewryville,
VA
23844. On the 3rd
day, Sunday, June 6, attendees are taken on a “Return to the Nat Turner
Trail.”
http://www.khabooks.com/natturnertour.htm
All who register in advance
will be guaranteed 10 minutes to talk about their work and to share their
experience in overcoming barriers to go from manuscript writer to published
writer. Aspiring writers and book buyers are also welcome to attend.
Registration is free.
There is a fee for the “Awards Dinner Banquet,” Saturday evening
where Black writers, journalist & booksellers, will given Black Book Awards
in front of family, friends, and readers of their work. It is about 95%
certain that Black Book Awards will be the only citation where their books
will be celebrated; and this was the case for some of the most important
books in Black History: if not for black book awards the works of The
Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Stolen Legacy, and John
Henrik Clarke, Dr. Amos N. Wilson and too many still alive to name; their
books never would have been documented with a wall certificate or plaque,
regardless of their greatness.
Writers are asked to register in advance by mailing a review copy of
their publication to the above address. For more information go to
www.blackbooksaward.com Or call (434) 378-2140.
To see a partial roster of past recipients, go
towww.blackbooks.award.com
SOUTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA – UBUS Communications Systems, the ‘trail blazing”
premier Independent Black Publisher announce the 19th presentation of Black Book
Awards for Excellence in Black Literature. As per the prior 19 “validation and
celebration of books that are written by, for or about Black people,” the first
weekend in June is reserved as a holiday for Black Writers, publishers,
printers, vendors and other sellers and buyers of Black literature.
It is not accidental or coincidental that Black Book Awards are presented on the
same weekend as the ABA, the Caucasian trade organization that operates to
celebrate white literature. But as usual a number of new Black writers will go o
the ABA, rather than to Southampton County and celebrate Black literature.
“This is ok for new Black writers,” said H. Khalif Khalifah, the Founder of
UBUS, and host for an event that is estimated to have presented Black Book
Awards for more than 500 individuals – 95% of whose work has never been cited
anyplace on the planet. Not because it was not good, or deserving enough, but
because no one have the vision and good business sense to institutionalize and
event that is also a great promotion opportunity for Black Writers.
“It is ok for new Black writers because many may not have gotten the word about
Black Book Awards, or, are still of the mindset that THEIR work will be the
exception to what the ABA is established to do. They witness that 99% of the
citations and celebration is of white literature at the ABA. Many come to us the
following years.” Continued Khalifah.
But according to Khalifah, other, otherwise ‘conscious’ black people will also
go to ABA, or not come to Southampton County during Black Literature Weekend.
They are simply not independently minded to the degree necessary to appreciate
the effort; or do not want their work to cited by a 100% Black organization.
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