AACBWI is a collective information-sharing forum for children’s authors and illustrators, young and old, aspiring or published. This site was designed to bridge the gap between this stand-alone, yet up-and-coming genre and children’s writers and illustrators of color.
AACBWI desires to assist, grow and encourage aspiring African-American children’s authors and illustrators in obtaining their literary achievements by hosting this website as a an outlet for links, postings, events, and individual artist features.
If you write for children or feel your company or services are geared towards our little ones, check out this site! Check out our online interviews with authors and illustrators, published both traditionally and self-published on our Interviews page. Be sure to also check out our literary partners, The BrownBookshelf.com as well as the Black Writers and Reunion Conference organization.
AACBWI’s mission is to assist, grow and encourage aspiring African-American children’s authors and illustrators in obtaining their literary achievements by:
-Providing the latest news and applicable resources regarding the publishing and literary industry as a whole
-Providing online forums for literary topics of discussion
-Holding literary and networking events for authors and illustrators of color
-Holding literary and networking events to include editors, agents and those representative of the publishing industry.
-Providing member critiques
-Promoting opportunities in the community by participating in the educational needs of the youth by way of offering:
-book signings by AACBWI members
-School visits
-Speaking engagements
-Awareness of literary author/illustrator past & current literary achievements in the literary industry
If you have not yet joined, please do so! We have lots of great individuals on the list from many literary circles.
AACBWI MEMBERSHIP (Membership Temporarily Closed)
Although we are currently an online organization, our goal is to become a recognized literary force in the children's literary industry, with emphasis on the African American children's writer and illustrator.
So please enjoy our online circle of friends and engulf yourself in a lifetime of literary worldwide friendships!
As always, remember to aspire to inspire
Sabra Robinson, Visionary
About Sabra
Although Sabra originated her characters, she proudly acknowledges her illustrator, Berry Holly, for bringing her characters into an enhanced animated form. While Holly used Prismacolor for his designs, his sense for colorful and riveting art is like no other. His attention to detail and ability to create drawings at a drop-of-a-dime is impressive. Holly has been illustrating for ten years.
Her next book from the MTB Adventure Series (TM) will be Micky,Ticky, Boo! Goes To Australia (as soon as she visits this wonderful continent!).
You can visit her website at www.MickyTickyBoo.com.
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