🍷 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesdays - a recap of the conversations that hit different. The books, the questions, the moments that pulled us in. Pull up with us next time. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday

🌑 Nigerian psychological thriller. Tribeca 2024. Now on HBO Max. The Weekend. Pull up. #SistahScifi #AfricanHorror #NigerianFilm

✨Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight 📚 Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley is now in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @naamnw! 🏆 New York Times Bestseller 📍Visit @naamnw and grab your copy today! #SistahScifi #BlackLiturgies #BookVendingMachine

🎧 Audiobook of the Week🎧 A trickster spirit. Two women with every reason to say yes to revenge. Futility by Nuzo Onoh. libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #AfricanHorror #AudiobookOfTheWeek

🗓️ June is stacked. SSWDW with Tlotlo Tsamaase and L.D. Lewis, Juneteenth at NAAM, Octavia Butler book club, queer comedy in SF, and a Patternist series readalong going now. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #Juneteenth #BlackFutures

📚 Zendaya and Teyana sparked the debate we needed. Octavia E. Butler or Toni Morrison? Are you #TeamToni or #TeamOctavia? Let is know in the comments!👇🏾 #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #OctaviaButler #ToniMorrison #SupportBlackAuthors #Library

✨ Two events. Two cities. Both worth it. Octavia's Legacy panel in San Francisco - June 14, 2 PM PST. Free. In person. SFWA Nebula autographing in Chicago - June 5, 8 PM. Links in bio. Pull up. 🤎 #SistahScifi #OctaviaButler #NebulAwards

✨ Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight 📚 SIGNED Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is now in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @206Langston and @naamnw! 📍Stop by and grab your copy from the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine today! #SistahScifi

📚 Children of Blood and Bone is going to the movies. Gina Prince-Bythewood directing. Thuso Mbedu, Viola Davis, Cynthia Erivo, Idris Elba in the cast. In theaters January 15, 2027. sistahscifi.com #ChildrenOfBloodAndBone #TomiAdeyemi #SistahScifi

🌈🤎 Pride Month starts now, siblings We're spending it with the Black and Indigenous speculative fiction authors who build futures we actually want to live in. Six authors. Slide through. 👉🏾📚 Find their books at www.sistahscifi.com or request from your favorite #library

🎧 Audiobook of the Week🎧 Arcane fan? C. L. Clark's Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf is the origin story you didn't know you needed. Listen via @Libro_fm: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #AudiobookOfTheWeek #Arcane

Bay Area Book Festival is this weekend. 4 panels worth showing up for, including one moderated by Sistah Scifi. 📚 Fri–Sun at The Freight, Berkeley, CA. $20 GA. Tickets at baybookfest.org #SistahScifi #BayBookFest #BlackSpeculativeFiction

🗓️Two things on the calendar tonight + tomorrow. Brioxy x Sistah Scifi Book Club reads SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire (6PM PST), then Boots Riley in conversation at Sydney Goldstein Theater tomorrow at 7:30PM. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi

📚 Happy Pub Day. Two out today: 👉🏾The Redemption Center Is Closed on Sundays by Andrea Hairston 👉🏾House of Margins by Tlotlo Tsamaase. 📚 Grab your copies at sistahscifi.com. Also available at local your #library. 🤎 #SistahScifi #PubDay #BlackSpeculativeFiction

Hollywood, we're talking to you. 📚 Reactor highlighted Everfair by Nisi Shawl + When No One Is Watching by Alyssa Cole as books that need a screen. Both at sistahscifi.com or your local library. reactormag.com/backlist-bonanza-5-books-that-deserve-an-adaptation/ #SistahScifi #BookAdaptation

✊🏾 May 25. African Liberation Day. The futures our authors imagine are part of that same legacy. Read boldly. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com #AfricanLiberationDay #SistahScifi #BlackFutures

🎧 Year of the Mer by L. D. Lewis is out now on audio. Dark fantasy. Exiled queen. Sea witch. No easy deals. Get it via Libro.fm. libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Audiobook

📚 Sistah Scifi got the Boost My Business treatment. Afrofuturism books deserve to be found, and Isis built the experience to prove it. Full episode: youtu.be/uF_drVIhiXk?... #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Afrofuturism

🗓 Four events this week. 🍷 WDW: Audiofuturism, 5PM PST 📚 Book Club: SLAY, 6PM PST 📖 Sat: Graphic Novel Club 🌍 Mon: Black Futures Book Club x Langston Register: sistahscifi.com/pages/events

Tonight: Black Authors Book Club at West Oakland Branch reads Burn Down Master's House by Clay Cane. Free, 6-7 PM. Then May 29-31: Bay Area Book Festival at The Freight, Berkeley. Nnedi Okofor, Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alexis Pauline Gumbs + more. $20 at baybookfest.org

🔥 Four fall preorders. Octavia Butler's Survivor, back in print after 50 years. Tananarive Due's Mazywood. Tomi Adeyemi's The Siren. Darcie Little Badger's Children of Owl. Your shelf isn't ready. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Preorder

🎬 Afro-fantasy is going to Hollywood. Viola Davis & Julius Tennon are developing The Untamed: A Sinner's Prayer for the big screen. 🤎 #SistahScifi #AfroFantasy #BlackComics

BIPOC writers. Weekend workshop on (dis)ability and chronic illness in speculative fiction. Free. 15 seats. June 13-14. Apply by June 1. carlbrandon.org/classes #SistahScifi #SpeculativeFiction #BIPOCWriters

🗓 Events are loading. Sapphic Romantasy, Closing Circle, Bay Area Book Festival popup, and Octavia's Legacy. May through June in the Bay. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

✨ Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor swept the 2026 Libby Award for Best Sci-Fi + NAACP Image Award. Both. Get it at sistahscifi.com 📚 #SistahScifi #NnediOkorafor #LibbyAward

🎧 Mayhem and the Mortal by Shanora Williams. Cursed world. Ruthless assassin. Found family chaos. Out now on @Libro.fm 👉🏾 libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #AudiobookOfTheWeek

Octavia E. Butler. Literary Witch. The work is still in print and still doing what it does. 📚 www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/22/o... Shop + preorder at sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #OctaviaButler #BlackSpeculativeFiction

📚 Happy Pub Day to The Search for Sadiqah by Greg Burnham. Tulsa, 1921. After the Massacre, a 13-year-old runs west with a map and something valuable she doesn't know she's carrying. Black history meets folklore meets martial arts. Out now at sistahscifi.com. #SistahScifi #BlackComics

🌌 May the 4th be with you, Sistah Scifi Siblings!! Black and Indigenous storytellers have been building galaxies worth believing in long before the blockbusters caught up. Happy Star Wars Day. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado. Gothic horror. Family reunion from hell. One of them is a demon. Twelve hours to find out who. Get it via @librofm: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #GothicHorror #AudiobookOfTheWeek

🩸 A missing girl. Investigating missing girls. Dismissed as hysterical by every adult around her. Then she goes missing too. Locus reviewed Sundown Girls by L.S. Stratton. Pick it up at sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #YAThriller

🌑 Caught the WDW highlights with L.S. Stratton and cohost Erika Hardison on Sundown Girls. A YA thriller rooted in the real history of sundown towns. The conversation hit. 📚 sistahscifi.com/products/sundown-girls #SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday #BlackSpeculativeFiction

✨Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight 📚 Conjure Island by Eden Royce is now in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @naamnw! A magical middle-grade story about family secrets, conjure magic, & discovering where you belong. 📍Visit @naamnw and grab your copy! #SistahScifi #ConjureIsland

Three writers. One conversation about what speculative fiction looks like when women write it their way. Reality Reimagined drops May 7, 5 PM PDT, online. Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/reality-re... #SistahScifi #SpeculativeFiction #BlackSpeculativeFiction

📚 Five preorders that should already be locked in. Andrea Hairston. Suyi Davies Okungbowa. Sheree Renée Thomas. N.K. Jemisin. LaDarrion Williams. 👉🏾All five at sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Preorder

Limited-time preorder offer ✨ Preorder The Siren by Tomi Adeyemi → get 30% off Children of Virtue & Vengeance Code: TomiAdeyemi April 25–30 • While supplies last 👉🏾 Preorder The Siren now at www.sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #TomiAdeyemi #BookDeals #IndieBookstore #BlackFantasy

🎧 Audiobook of the Week Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis is the paranormal romance era we deserved. #1 NYT Bestseller, now in audio. 🩸🌙 Listen via @librofm: libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #BloodMoon #SistahScifi #Audiobooks

🤎 It's Store Spirit Day and this is what Sistah Scifi looks like in the world. On stages. In community spaces. At events where the room is packed because people actually showed up. This is what gets built when Black imagination gets a home. 👉🏾Pull up at sistahscifi.com

📚 We're in the Bookish Bay Brigade Bookstore Crawl. Stop by April 25 for prizes + gifts. Register to join the scavenger hunt 👉🏾 BookishBayBrigade.com #SistahScifi #IndieBookstoreDay

🎧 The Libro.fm x Sistah Scifi Indie Bookshop Sale is live now through April 26. Thousands of audiobooks on sale, and every purchase supports us directly. New members use code BOOKSTOREDAY for 3 books at the price of 1. libro.fm/sale?bookshop=sistahscifi #SistahScifi

It's Bookstore Shirt Day and the Sistah Scifi fam did not miss 🖤📚 Tag us in your fits. #SistahScifi #BookstoreSpiritWeek #IndieBookstoreDay

📚 Connect with your Sistah Scifi Siblings at these in-person and virtual events!!! 👉🏾West Oakland Book Club TODAY 6 PM 👉🏾Brioxy x Sistah Scifi Book Club 👉🏾Graphic Novel Club Apr 25 👉🏾Sapphic Romantasy May 14 sistahscifi.com/pages/events 🤎

Oakland came out for Tamika Thompson's debut and it was everything. 🤎🩸 The Curse of Hester Gardens is out now. Grab your copy at sistahscifi.com #TheCurseOfHesterGardens #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

🎧✨ Audiobook of the Week: Bones at the Crossroads by LaDarrion Williams A magical HBCU. A fractured family. Ancient secrets. Book 2 in the Blood at the Root series hits different. 👉🏾 Stream via Librofm libro.fm/audiobooks/9798217069156-bones-at-the-crossroads or borrow free on LibbyApp

Dr. Gladys West built the mathematical foundation for GPS from a Navy lab in 1956. One of four Black employees. A hidden figure no more. 95 years. What a life. Rest well, Dr. West. 🤎 #DrGladysWest #SistahScifi #BlackExcellence

📚 The ancestors. The future. Andrea Hairston is building a bridge between both. Read the full PW interview 👉🏾 publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/99859-across-the-universes-pw-talks-with-andrea-hairston.html Preorder at sistahscifi.com 🤎

✨ Book Vending Machine Spotlight ✨ Signed Nubia: The Awakening at @206Langston. Join Black Futures Book Club x Langston Seattle on April 27, 6–7:30 PM PST, in person + online, discussing The Abbott graphic novel series by Saladin Ahmed. Register: sistahscifi.com/pages/events! #SistahScifi

🍷 WDW is TONIGHT. Tamika Thompson on The Curse of Hester Gardens w/ Sasha Fountain. 5PM PST / 8PM EST. 🩸 Brioxy x Sistah Scifi Book Club also tonight at 6PM PST. 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday

📚 Double pub day! The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice + They Made Us Blood and Fury by Cheryl S. Ntumy are out now. Two worlds. Both hitting different. Shop at www.sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors

THIS WEEK, join me on IG Live for @sistahscifi.bsky.social's Wine Down Wednesday, when I will discuss THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS with co-host Sasha Fountain. I can't wait! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #BlackSky