About this Event
Black Futures Book Club invites you into an immersive monthly gathering where literature becomes a portal for collective dreaming, critical reflection, and liberated imagination. Rooted in Black speculative and futurist traditions, this reading series centers authors who dare to reimagine the world through Black lenses, honoring ancestral wisdom, grieving inherited and ongoing injustices, and conjuring futures unbound by oppression.
Current Book List (2026)
February 23: We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older
March 23: When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
April 27: The Abbott – Graphic Novel Series by Saladin Ahmed
May (Date TBA): Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead
June 22: Positive Obsession – Octavia E. Butler Biography by Susana M. Morris
July 27 (Virtual): Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
August 31: As the Earth Dreams: A Black Canadian Speculative Story by Terese Mason Pierre
September 28: You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado
October 26: The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories by Desiree S. Evans
November 23 (Virtual): Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi
December 28 (Virtual): Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Previously Read:
January: We are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull
**About LANGSTON Seattle**
LANGSTON Seattle is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization, founded in 2016 with the purpose of spearheading programs at the historic Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. They lead innovative programs and foster community partnerships that center Black art, artists, and audiences while honoring the enduring legacy of Seattle’s Black Central Area. Read more here.
**About Sistah Scifi**
Started in 2019 by Isis Asare, Sistah Scifi is the first Black-owned bookstore focused on science fiction and fantasy in the United States, as validated by the American Booksellers Association, and has a community of nearly 60K points of contact with engaged readers across the country. The bookstore has been featured in The Seattle Times, KQED, Oprah Magazine, Buzzfeed, USA Today, KTVU, The New York Times, South Seattle Emerald and many more.
Sistah Scifi's mission is to double the number of Black and Indigenous Speculative Fiction authors on the New York Times bestseller list by 2030. Read more here.
Check out Sistah Scifi's bookshop.org page if titles are out of stock at SistahScifi.com.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
104 17th Ave S, 104 17th Avenue South, Seattle, United States
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