Due Receives Octavia Butler/L.A. Banks Award

Tananarive Due received the Octavia Butler/L.A. Banks Memorial Award from the United California African-American Bookclubs (UCAAB) during the 12th annual Fall Into Fiction conference, held September 21-22, 2018 at the Long Beach Mariott in Long Beach CA. The award includes a trophy in the shape of California and was presented to Due by Steven Barnes.

“UCAAB was created as a way for African-American book clubs in California to network, support, and promote our reading groups, black-owned independent bookstores, and the authors we love to read.”

For more information, see the UCAAB site.

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