Call for Submissions! Abstracts due: October 5, 2025 Submission types: Scholarly essays, fiction, poetry, visual art No AI-generated content Publication: 2027 Details on flyer; scan the QR code for details or select this URL: docs.google.com/document/u/0... #Afrofuturism

‘Positive Obsession’ Is a Fresh Look at #OctaviaEButler -- A new biography by Susana M. Morris reveals the struggles, passions and triumphs that shaped the science fiction icon and her books. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b....

All That You Touch, You Change: The Life and Legacy of Octavia E. Butler: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/08/a...

CFP: Black Cultural Futurism

Happy Publication Day to Susana M. Morris! Her biography on Ms. Butler, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, officially releases today! Congrats! #octaviabutler #parableofthesower

Happy 78th Birthday to Octavia E. Butler! Butler’s legacy is full speed ahead, thanks to so many groups, businesses, schools, scholars, artists, writers, and more. Whether you’re new to Butler or just getting started, there’s something for everyone—even our four legged friends! #octaviabutler

Join us in celebrating Butler's birthday month with our 2nd "Wild Seeds: A Tuesday Accountability Group." We invite content creators, educators, writers, and anyone seeking a focused work environment to join our free virtual working space on Zoom from 1-4 PM ET Tuesdays in June! #octaviabutler

The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society hosted three panels at the 2025 American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA. Each session was invigorating! #octaviabutler #parableofthesower #wildseed #pedagogy #blackwriter #academicsky

Happy Founder's Day to the Octavia E. Butler Literary Society! #octaviabutler #earthseed #parable

The Octavia E. Butler Literary Society had a special session at the 2025 @clascholars.bsky.social Convention in Vancouver, WA last week! "The special session was titled, Octavia E. Butler in Expanding Conversations: Ecology, Indigeneity, and Black Liberation" #octaviabutler #CLAGoesWest

Happy Publication Day to John A. Jennings and Damian Duffy! Their graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's #ParableOfTheTalents officially releases today! Congrats! #parableofthesower #earthseed #parableofthetalents #olamina #octaviabutler

Join the Octavia E. Butler Seminar panel at PAMLA 2025 in San Francisco ! Submit your paper proposals on "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" or any Butler-related topic by May 15, 2025. For more info visit: bit.ly/OEB-PAMLA #OctaviaButler

#NationalLibraryWeek Butler grew up in libraries, loved them, and wrote there. Back in 1993 she sounded the alarm about libraries being sacrificed and she warned of the "intellectual drought" that would come if we didn't "[consider] the consequences of our self-destructive behavior" #octaviabutler

Olamina Daily. #Parableofthesower #OctaviaButler #Earthseed

New on the blog: 48 Everyday Things to Do to Resist

From Parable of the Sower #OlaminaDaily #OctaviaButler

From our free Acorn: Rejuvenating Activity Kit we launched last year. Access it here: https://buff.ly/4bkrKYA #OctaviaButler

From #ParableOfTheSower #OlaminaDaily #OctaviaButler

Who are your people? Who is your community? How can you show them love today? Happy #BlackLove Day! #ValentinesDay #BlackLove #BlackLoveDay #OctaviaButler #WildSeed

From #ParableOfTheSower #OlaminaDaily #OctaviaButler

As California Burns, ‘Octavia Tried to Tell Us’ Has New Meaning www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/u...

Octavia E. Butler’s Library Card Los Angeles Public Library © Octavia E. Butler The Huntington Library | San Marino Image from the exquisite book by Lynell George @lynellgeorge.bsky.social a handful of earth a handful of sky the world of Octavia E. Butler Read: www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a...

The LA Fires Aren't a Surprise If You Study History and Climate Change. So Now What? Teen Vogue connects the work of the late sci-fi writer Octavia E. Butler to the Los Angeles fires that have so far burned through 35,000 acres. www.teenvogue.com/story/la-fir...