🌟 Big Moves Alert! 🌟 @AyraStarr has officially signed a management deal with @JayZ’s Roc Nation! 🙌🏾✨ On top of that, she’s starring in the highly anticipated movie adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone by @tomiadeyemi! 📚🔥 #sistahscifi #AyraStarr #RocNation

📚✨ Pub Day! ✨📚 The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by @DerrickBarnes is here! 🎉 ✨ Available now at www.sistahscifi.com or your #locallibrary! #sistahscifi #NewBookPub #PubDay

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So loved interviewing artist & illustrator Authan Chen. He created the amazing cover for my short story collection-Doll Seed. We give tips about what writers should know re: the cover design process when working with a press. @sistahscifi.bsky.social youtu.be/yLBpjksxG3E

The way she dogged Bruce Wayne out 😭😭😭

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Are you ready?!?!

Love to get asked about my @sistahscifi.bsky.social t-shirt at work Not many natural excuses to recommend Octavia Butler at the law library so I gotta make my own

Ooh, if only I had an expansive budget and an event to plan…

Thoughts? Who should play Charlie from #cebocampbell 's Sky Full of Elephants? Let us know in the comments!! www.sistahscifi.com

5 weeks til PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE hits the shelves! My gramma's letter holder/pen & ink stand inspired a few scenes in this book. Signed pre-orders are only available from @sistahscifi.bsky.social via this rose gold foil bookplate. sistahscifi.com/products/pre... #booksky #Blackbooksky

🔥📚 Publication Week! 📚🔥 From bestselling and award-winning author @CadwellTurnbull comes A Ruin, Great and Free, the stunning conclusion to the Convergence Saga. 📖 Available now at www.sistahscifi.com or at your #locallibrary. #sistahscifi #ConvergenceSaga

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: A Chorus Rises by @BethanyCMorrow 🎧 🎧 Listen now and follow Naema on her journey. @librofm @macmillan.audio #sistahscifi #AudiobookOfTheWeek

📚✨ On Sept 17th, we explored A Ruin, Great and Free with author @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social at #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday. 🎥 Catch the full conversation on our YouTube page: youtu.be/DwNzYF5C6qs #SistahScifi #CadwellTurnbull #BlackSpeculativeFiction #ARuinGreatandFree #TheConvergenceSaga

🌍✨ PREORDER ALERT ✨🌍 SIGNED copies of As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories are here! Featuring @suyidavies.com , #FrancescaEkwuyasi + a host of Black Canadian authors. Signed by Suyi Davies 🖊️ 🔥Limited copies → grab yours now: www.sistahscifi.com #BlackSpeculativeFiction

✨This Wednesday! Join #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday with Cadwell Turnbull’s A Ruin, Great and Free—the epic finale to the Convergence Saga. 🌙Revelations, resistance & radical imagination await. 📩 Read more: mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/... #BlackSpeculativeFiction #CadwellTurnbull

🎬✨ Calling all animation lovers! ✨🎬 The Khem Animation Film Festival @khemfest is back — celebrating the best of Black animation! 🖤✨ 📅 Date: September 27, 2025 📍 Location: Newark, NJ #sistahscifi #KAFF #KhemAnimationFilmFestival

Just got my copy of Blood Moon by Britney S. Lewis! @britneyslewis.bsky.social ❤️Later this month I’ll be speaking with Isis from @sistahscifi.bsky.social and Britney about the book for an upcoming Wine Down Wednesday! #BloodMoon #BookSky #BlackBookSky #BookMail #bookmailisthebestmail

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: Forged by Blood by @EhigborOkosun 🎧 The first in a powerful duology inspired by Nigerian mythology ✨ 🎧 Listen now and step into a world where blood holds both power and peril. @librofm @harpercollins #sistahscifi #ForgedByBlood

🌕✨ Blood Moon by @BritneySLewis is now available to read! ✨🌕 ✨ Available now — grab your copy today at www.sistahscifi.com or check it out at your #locallibrary. #sistahscifi #BloodMoon

Long before Afrofuturism became a recognized movement, Black women were reshaping literature and imagination. From @PhyllisWheatley, the first published African-American poet, to @PaulineHopkins. #sistahscifi #BlackWomenWriters

Representation matters, and Nubia’s story is one of power, resilience, and heritage — a vital chapter in the expanding DC Universe we can’t wait to see unfold. #sistahscifi #Nubia #BlackAmazon

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: Binti by @nnediokorafor 🎧 Narrated with cosmic clarity and ancestral heart. 🌍🛸 A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, Binti is a story of radical courage, cultural survival, and interstellar brilliance. @librofm @macmillanaudio #sistahscifi #Binti #BlackGirlSciFi

📚 Since 2022, the @BrooklynPublicLibrary has offered free eCards to teens nationwide facing book bans in their local communities! ✊🏾✨ 📖 Parable of the Sower by @OctaviaEButler 📖 The Hate U Give by @angiethomas 📖 Gender Queer by @MaiaKobabe 📖 All Boys Aren’t Blue by @GeorgeMJohnson

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 We’re beyond excited to introduce the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine — a groundbreaking way to access Black and Indigenous speculative fiction on the go! 📚✨ 📩 Interested in renting? Email us: [email protected] #sistahscifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

✨Book Spotlight: Chocolate Chip City✨ Dive into Chocolate Chip City by #besteadwell published by @bywaterbooks.bsky.social 🛒Grab your copy today at sistahscifi.com or from your #locallibrary. Today we want to shout out #bcplinfo and @oaklibrary.bsky.social. #QueerLit #BlackQueerJoy #SistahScifi

Are you a writer with a novel in your head but virtually no time to write it? The Carl Brandon Society is offering a class with @suyidavies.com. How To Finish Your Novel - A Weekend Workshop. For more info: events.humanitix.com/how-to-finis... #WritingCommunity #CarlBrandonSociety #SuyiDavies

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: Conjure Island by @EdenRoyce 🎧 🌀 A beautiful blend of folklore, family, and coming-of-age. ✨ Listen now and let the magic begin. @librofm @waldenpondpress #sistahscifi #AudiobookOfTheWeek

📖🔥On August 27th, we journeyed into the sands of legacy and resistance with Moses Ose Utomi during #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday. 🌟Catch the highlights and relive the full conversation on our YouTube page: youtu.be/H04jb0m98ZE #SistahScifi #MosesOseUtomi #ForeverDesert

@strangehorizonsmag featured an amazing take on The Afrofuturist Evolution: Creative Paths to Self-Discovery by @YtashaL.Womack 💫 — a book that continues to inspire and spark conversation. sistahscifi.com/products/pre... #sistahscifi #Afrofuturism

✨ Wine Down Wednesday ✨ 📖 The Memory of the Ogisi by @mosesoseutomi.bsky.social 🗓 Aug 27 Legacy. Destiny. Resistance. Forever Desert. 🔗https://sistahscifi.com/pages/events Read more in the latest Sistah Scifi newsletter: mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/... #SistahScifi #SpeculativeFiction

🎉✨ Happy Birthday, @RoseanneA.Brown! ✨🎉 Author of the spellbinding duology: 📖 A Song of Wraiths and Ruin 📖 A Psalm of Storms and Silence sistahscifi.com/search?type=... #sistahscifi #HappyBirthday

🎂✨Belated Happy Birthday to the brilliant @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social! 📚Dive into his unforgettable work through Sistah Scifi →https://sistahscifi.com/products/a-ruin-great-and-free-a-novel-the-convergence-saga?_pos=1&_sid=ffd4bb400&_ss=r published by #blackstonepublishing #SistahScifi

Beyond the Glittering World: An Anthology of Indigenous Feminisms and Futurisms by @DarcieLittleBadger, @DenetsosieShannon, and @KinsaleDrake 📚 Pre-order now. sistahscifi.com/products/bey... #sistahscifi #IndigenousFuturism

📚🚇 Books & BART Takeover – A Silent Book Club Train Ride + Meet-Up at Chapter 510 In celebration of National Read a Book Day! ✍🏾 RSVP now and let’s read in solidarity → www.sistahscifi.com #sistahscifi #BooksAndBART

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: The Royal Trials (Last Gate of the Emperor #2) 🎧 By @KwameMbalia & @PrinceJoelMakonnen.. 🎧 Listen now on @librofm #sistahscifi #AudiobookOfTheWeek

📚✨ On August 20th, we honored Octavia E. Butler with the brilliant Susana M. Morris and cohost Kendra R. Parker at #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday. 🎥 Watch the highlights here and catch the full conversation on our YouTube page: youtu.be/SjAONpN08ZQ #SistahScifi #OctaviaEButler #PositiveObsession

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📅 Upcoming Sistah Scifi Events ✨ Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with @SusanaMMorris 📖 Positive Obsession 🗓 August 20 ✨ Fulfillment Parties 🗓 August 22 & 23 ✨ Sistah Scifi Book Club 🗓 August 23 ✨Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with @MosesOseUtomi 📖 The Memory of the Ogisi 🗓 August 27

📚✨Congratulations to Two Trailblazers!✨📚 Celebrating two incredible Indigenous speculative fiction authors @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social and #Dr.DarcielittleBadger honored at the 2025 Hugo Awards as part of #SeattleWorldCon. @levinequerido.bsky.social @sagapressbooks.bsky.social #HugoAwards

🚀✨ It’s Pub Day! ✨🚀 Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of @OctaviaEButler by @SusanaMorris is here! 📚 Available now at www.sistahscifi.com or your #locallibrary. #sistahscifi #PositiveObsession #PubDay

✨ Celebrating Black Speculative Brilliance ✨ Earlier this summer, we had the absolute honor of uplifting visionary voices in Black speculative fiction: 🌟 Award-winning sci-fi icon @nnediokorafor 🌟 USA Today bestselling author @KemiAshingGiwa 🌟 Rising star and captivating storyteller @AidaNdiaye

TODAY!! Carl Brandon Society Tea #SeattleWorldCon Meet the steering committee members @nameshiv.bsky.social , Yang-Yang Wang, Kate Schaefer, @isisasare.bsky.social @nisishawl.bsky.social , and @ktempestbradford.com Learn more here: reg.seattlein2025.org

Preorder links for THE KING MUST DIE, my science fantasy novel about found family, revolution, and second chances are live! Submit receipts via this form to receive a digital poster, drawn by the incredible Eepz. www.simonandschuster.com/p/the-king-m...

🎬📚 @LaurenceFishburne is producing — and potentially starring in — the film adaptation of Sky Full of Elephants by the brilliant @CeboCampbell. #sistahscifi #SkyFullOfElephants #LaurenceFishburne

Audiobook of the Week: Sheine Lende by @DarcieLittleBadger ✨ Part mystery, part myth, and full of heart, Sheine Lende is a haunting, unforgettable prequel that dives into the ancestral roots of the world Darcie Little Badger first introduced in Elatsoe. 📚 #sistahscifi #SheineLende

🖤✨ Pre-order Spotlight: Psychopomp & Circumstance by @EdenRoyce ✨🖤 🪞✨ Perfect for fans of ghost stories, Gothic mystery, and Black Southern lore. 📖 Pre-order your signed copy now: 🔗 sistahscifi.com/products/preorder-signed-psychopomp-circumstance-by-eden-royce #sistascifi #SouthernGothic

✨ An amazing summer camp for teen writers! ✍🏾 📅 Aug 18–22: Free Worldbuilding Camp for BIPOC teens at yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective 🔗Read more in the latest Sistah Scifi newsletter: mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/... #ClarionWest #BIPOC_youth_writers #SistahScifi @clarionwest.bsky.social

🚀🌍 Happy World Science Fiction Day! 🌍🚀 Today, we celebrate the genre that dares to ask What if? — and gives us the imagination to dream beyond boundaries, binaries, and even the stars. 💫 #sistahscifi #WorldScienceFictionDay

🎉 Happy Birthday to @BeSteadwell! 🎉 Author of Chocolate Chip City — a bold, tender, and joyfully queer story that proves Black love is a revolutionary act. 🖤🍫 Here’s to Be — for giving us lyrics that linger, stories that affirm, and love that resonates across mediums. 💜✨ #sistahscifi