Their mission "is to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the production of and audience for speculative fiction.
"[1] Their vision is "a world in which speculative fiction, about complex and diverse cultures from writers of all backgrounds, is used to understand the present and model possible futures; and where people of color are full citizens in the community of imagination and progress.
"[1] The Society was founded in 1997 following discussions at the feminist science fiction convention WisCon 23 in Madison, Wisconsin.
[2] It was named after "Carl Brandon", a fictional black fan writer created in the mid-1950s by Terry Carr and Pete Graham.
[6] Its goal is to provide an annual scholarship to enable writers of color to attend one of the Clarion writing workshops where Butler got her start.