Posted by | Ray Cornelius
The ninth annual AAMBC (African Americans on the Move Book Club) Literary Awards will be held in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, June 10, 2017. The featured highlight is the Maya Angelou Lifetime Achievement Award being presented to acclaimed poet Nikki Giovanni. This year’s show is also being hosted by “Media” actor Blue Kimble + actress & comedienne Cocoa Brown.
“Honoring Nikki Giovanni is a dream come true for me. It’s great to honor legends while we have them here with us. This means a lot to AAMBC and to the African American literary community,” says AAMBC Founder Tamika Newhouse.
Tamika Newhouse with AAMBC’s Red Carpet Host Xaviera Bryant of Ice Cream Conversations
The evening is also attached to the “Black Writer’s Weekend” which will be filled with lots of panels, workshops and a private movie screening.
“We have panels on breaking into screenwriting for TV & film, a relationship panel especially for women, a sci-fi writer’s workshop for high school students and author sightings and our celebratory book bash. This weekend was designed specifically for readers and writers of all genres, genders and ages,” Newhouse says. “We wanted this to be a true celebration of literary achievement in every area imaginable.”
The annual AAMBC Literary Awards was launched in 2009 in San Antonio, Texas by the founder. Smaller ceremonies were then hosted in the years following in Chicago as well as in Baltimore in adjacent to various literary events. In 2015 the first inaugural red carpet ceremony took place in Atlanta, GA marking the beginning of the black writer’s weekend.
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