Community Organization supposedly supports “Authors from the community” but…

[A reply to a video they posted about the important need of supporting emerging authors from the Islamic community]

If you truly believe in this video and supporting emerging authors, you would never charge an emerging author $500 for a table at your fair. It’s ironic that the very organization that speaks so highly of emerging authors is itself a barrier to entry for those same authors. Sounds like the people running this fair aren’t authors, and probably won’t even begin to understand the courage and grit it takes to do this work.