📚✨New York Times Bestselling Author Headlines an All-Day Celebration of the Orishas at SFPL
We’re going all the way in for Divine Forces: Exploring the Power of the Orishas—a full-day cultural gathering rooted in Yoruba spirituality, African diasporic traditions, and collective healing.
📍 San Francisco Public Library – Main Library 📅 Sunday, January 18, 2026 ⏰ 12:30–5:00 PM (Registration begins at 12:15 PM)
✨ Headliner: @tomiadeyemi— Hugo & Nebula Award–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Legacy of Orïsha series
🧠Panels & Conversations include: • Black Diasporic Religions — with @revdrsys and @ayizejamaeverett (moderated by @stanfordcarpenter) • Orishas Reborn: West African YA Fantasy — Tomi Adeyemi in conversation with @isisasare, founder of Sistah Scifi • Post-Colonial Traditions in Contemporary Literature — Clarence A. Haynes with Kemi Ashing-Giwa (moderated by Audrey T. Williams)
✍🏾 Plus: • Book signing with Tomi Adeyemi • Marketplace featuring vendors and community organizations (open 12:30–5 PM)
Hosted by the African American Center at @sfpubliclibrary, in collaboration with Sistah Scifi and Brother-Story, this event centers the Orishas as living forces—guides for creativity, resistance, and transformation across the African diaspora.
Join us for a powerful night of Afrofuturist imagination with @aeceaser and @tifftheeauthor, as they discuss their short stories “Kemi and the Sacred Amulet” and “Nikki’s Rockin’ Rocket Curls and Cuts” from Afrofuturism Short Stories.
🌌 Rooted in Black identity, agency, and liberated futures, this anthology blends myth, folklore, science fiction, and the supernatural—showcasing how Afrofuturism continues to stretch across time, space, and genre.
đź“– Published by @flametreepress, the collection brings together emerging and established voices, offering a rich, genre-bending celebration of Black speculative storytelling.
🍷 Start the year with us. Pull up, sip something good, and tap into the future.
The @kuow Book Club closed out the year with a chef’s kiss choice: Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by #SusanaMMorris.
Before her passing in Lake Forest Park, Octavia Butler became the most eloquent and elegant voice of Afrofuturism — centering Black women, warning us about the futures ahead, and daring readers to imagine something better.
📖 Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris — a powerful biography honoring the woman who reshaped speculative fiction and challenged us to do the work of building the world we want to live in.
Butler didn’t write doomsday stories. She wrote love letters to humanity — with homework.🖤 A must-read for anyone who believes imagination is an act of resistance.
🌍✨ DIVINE FORCES: Exploring the Power of the Orishas ✨🌍
Join us for a transformative, all-day gathering exploring African spirituality, storytelling, and collective healing at the @sfpubliclibrary.
📅 Sunday, January 18, 2026 ⏰ 12:30–5:00 PM 📍 SFPL Main Library 🎟 FREE | RSVP encouraged
We’re honored to welcome Hugo & Nebula Award–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author @tomiadeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha) for a featured conversation moderated by @isisasare on the role of Orishas in contemporary YA literature.
✨ Keynote by @luisahteish, acclaimed author and Yoruba Priestess ✨ Panels with revdrsys, @ayizejamaeverett, @clarenceahaynes, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa ✨ Book signing with Tomi Adeyemi ✨ Marketplace featuring community vendors
This is more than an event — it’s a celebration of spiritual heritage, resilience, and imagination across the African diaspora.
The Starseekers by @nicolegloverwrites is officially out—and it’s doing the absolute most in the best way possible.
Think Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures, but make it magic-fueled, murder-adjacent, and set during the 1960s space race. 🌓🔮
Meet Cynthia Rhodes:
🧠brilliant arcane engineer at NASA 📺 host of a magical educational show 🕵🏾‍♀️ amateur sleuth (it runs in the family)
When a cursed museum curator, a suspicious lab “accident,” and a stolen artifact collide, Cynthia and arcane archeologist Theo Danner uncover a conspiracy that threatens the space program itself. Magic, sabotage, pirate treasure rumors, and deadly enchantments? Yeah. Stakes = astronomical.
This is historical fantasy done the classic way—tight mystery, smart worldbuilding, and Black brilliance at the center—while still pushing the genre forward.
📖 Out now 👉 Grab your copy at www.sistahscifi.com
Shoutout to Rock and the Beat Generation for continuing to document the literary underground—and for highlighting Nisi Shawl in their ever-expanding review archive.
Shawl’s The Day & Night Books of Mardou Fox is featured among more than 60 titles chronicling Beat, punk, rock, and countercultural history—proof that Black speculative voices don’t just belong in the future, they belong in the record.
This isn’t nostalgia. It’s preservation. It’s lineage. It’s giving credit where it’s long overdue.
Tap in, read deep, and respect the architects. đź“– Featured via Rock and the Beat Generation, edited by Simon Warner.
✨ The Starseekers by Nicole Glover is coming for your TBR.
Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this brand-new stand-alone historical fantasy set in the world of The Conductors, in which the space race of the mid-20th century will be determined by magic...if not murder.
Curiosity, brilliance, danger — all orbiting the unknown.
Everfair is a wonderful neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier.
Steampunk, revolution, and reimagined history — Nisi Shawl’s Everfair is ready for your weekend stack.
đź“Ť Find it at the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine inside the Northwest African American Museum (www.naamnw.org).
Sistah Scifi
Sistah Scifi
📚✨New York Times Bestselling Author Headlines an All-Day Celebration of the Orishas at SFPL
We’re going all the way in for Divine Forces: Exploring the Power of the Orishas—a full-day cultural gathering rooted in Yoruba spirituality, African diasporic traditions, and collective healing.
📍 San Francisco Public Library – Main Library
đź“… Sunday, January 18, 2026
⏰ 12:30–5:00 PM (Registration begins at 12:15 PM)
✨ Headliner:
@tomiadeyemi— Hugo & Nebula Award–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Legacy of Orïsha series
🧠Panels & Conversations include:
• Black Diasporic Religions — with @revdrsys and @ayizejamaeverett (moderated by @stanfordcarpenter)
• Orishas Reborn: West African YA Fantasy — Tomi Adeyemi in conversation with @isisasare, founder of Sistah Scifi
• Post-Colonial Traditions in Contemporary Literature — Clarence A. Haynes with Kemi Ashing-Giwa (moderated by Audrey T. Williams)
✍🏾 Plus:
• Book signing with Tomi Adeyemi
• Marketplace featuring vendors and community organizations (open 12:30–5 PM)
Hosted by the African American Center at @sfpubliclibrary, in collaboration with Sistah Scifi and Brother-Story, this event centers the Orishas as living forces—guides for creativity, resistance, and transformation across the African diaspora.
👉 Register now: sistahscifi.com/pages/events
This is culture, literature, and spirit in conversation—don’t miss it.
#DivineForces #OrishaWisdom #AfricanDiaspora #Afrofuturism #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SistahScifiEvents #TomiAdeyemi #LuisahTeish #SFPL #BlackAuthors #AncestralFutures
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📚✨ We’re kicking off the year with our FIRST #SistahScifiWineDownWednesday of 2026! ✨🍷
Join us for a powerful night of Afrofuturist imagination with @aeceaser and @tifftheeauthor, as they discuss their short stories “Kemi and the Sacred Amulet” and “Nikki’s Rockin’ Rocket Curls and Cuts” from Afrofuturism Short Stories.
🌌 Rooted in Black identity, agency, and liberated futures, this anthology blends myth, folklore, science fiction, and the supernatural—showcasing how Afrofuturism continues to stretch across time, space, and genre.
đź“– Published by @flametreepress, the collection brings together emerging and established voices, offering a rich, genre-bending celebration of Black speculative storytelling.
🍷 Start the year with us. Pull up, sip something good, and tap into the future.
đź”— Register now at sistahscifi.com/pages/events
👉🏾 Check out our latest newsletter for more info: mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/0707newsletter-18118336
#SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday #Afrofuturism #BlackSpeculativeFiction #ShortStories #BlackAuthors #SpeculativeFutures #FlameTreePress #BlackFutures
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📚✨ KUOW Book Club Pick Alert! ✨📚
The @kuow Book Club closed out the year with a chef’s kiss choice: Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by #SusanaMMorris.
Before her passing in Lake Forest Park, Octavia Butler became the most eloquent and elegant voice of Afrofuturism — centering Black women, warning us about the futures ahead, and daring readers to imagine something better.
📖 Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris — a powerful biography honoring the woman who reshaped speculative fiction and challenged us to do the work of building the world we want to live in.
Butler didn’t write doomsday stories.
She wrote love letters to humanity — with homework.🖤 A must-read for anyone who believes imagination is an act of resistance.
Grab a copy at www.sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi #OctaviaButler #PositiveObsession #Afrofuturism #BlackSpeculativeFiction #LiteraryLegacy #KUOWBookClub
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🌍✨ DIVINE FORCES: Exploring the Power of the Orishas ✨🌍
Join us for a transformative, all-day gathering exploring African spirituality, storytelling, and collective healing at the @sfpubliclibrary.
đź“… Sunday, January 18, 2026
⏰ 12:30–5:00 PM
đź“Ť SFPL Main Library
🎟 FREE | RSVP encouraged
We’re honored to welcome Hugo & Nebula Award–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author @tomiadeyemi (Legacy of Orïsha) for a featured conversation moderated by @isisasare on the role of Orishas in contemporary YA literature.
✨ Keynote by @luisahteish, acclaimed author and Yoruba Priestess
✨ Panels with revdrsys, @ayizejamaeverett, @clarenceahaynes, and Kemi Ashing-Giwa
✨ Book signing with Tomi Adeyemi
✨ Marketplace featuring community vendors
This is more than an event — it’s a celebration of spiritual heritage, resilience, and imagination across the African diaspora.
👉 RSVP: sistahscifi.com/pages/events
đź”— Check out our latest newsletter for more info: mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/0707newsletter-18105375
#DivineForces #Orishas #SistahScifi #TomiAdeyemi #SFPL #BlackSpeculativeFiction #AfricanDiaspora #YorubaSpirituality #CommunityHealing #BlackFutures
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🚀✨ PUB DAY IS HERE! ✨🚀
The Starseekers by @nicolegloverwrites is officially out—and it’s doing the absolute most in the best way possible.
Think Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures, but make it magic-fueled, murder-adjacent, and set during the 1960s space race. 🌓🔮
Meet Cynthia Rhodes:
🧠brilliant arcane engineer at NASA
đź“ş host of a magical educational show
🕵🏾‍♀️ amateur sleuth (it runs in the family)
When a cursed museum curator, a suspicious lab “accident,” and a stolen artifact collide, Cynthia and arcane archeologist Theo Danner uncover a conspiracy that threatens the space program itself. Magic, sabotage, pirate treasure rumors, and deadly enchantments? Yeah. Stakes = astronomical.
This is historical fantasy done the classic way—tight mystery, smart worldbuilding, and Black brilliance at the center—while still pushing the genre forward.
đź“– Out now
👉 Grab your copy at www.sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi #PubDay #TheStarseekers #NicoleGlover #HistoricalFantasy #BlackSpeculativeFiction #AfrofuturismAdjacent #SFFBooks #ReadBlackAuthors
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📚🔥 Feature Spotlight: Nisi Shawl
Shoutout to Rock and the Beat Generation for continuing to document the literary underground—and for highlighting Nisi Shawl in their ever-expanding review archive.
Shawl’s The Day & Night Books of Mardou Fox is featured among more than 60 titles chronicling Beat, punk, rock, and countercultural history—proof that Black speculative voices don’t just belong in the future, they belong in the record.
This isn’t nostalgia.
It’s preservation.
It’s lineage.
It’s giving credit where it’s long overdue.
Tap in, read deep, and respect the architects.
đź“– Featured via Rock and the Beat Generation, edited by Simon Warner.
#NisiShawl #RockAndTheBeatGeneration #LiteraryLegacy #BeatHistory #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Afrofuturism #UndergroundLiterature #SistahScifi
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🌌📚 Preorder Alert!
✨ The Starseekers by Nicole Glover is coming for your TBR.
Indiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this brand-new stand-alone historical fantasy set in the world of The Conductors, in which the space race of the mid-20th century will be determined by magic...if not murder.
Curiosity, brilliance, danger — all orbiting the unknown.
đź”® Preorder now at www.sistahscifi.com
#SistahScifi #PreorderAlert #TheStarseekers #NicoleGlover #BlackSpeculativeFiction #HistoricalFantasy
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đź”® Future Forward đź”®
A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler, illustrated by Manzel Bowman.
Octavia Butler’s insights guide us still. A Few Rules For Predicting The Future belongs in your hands today.
đź“Ť Find it at the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine inside The Northwest African American Museum (www.naamnw.org/).
#SistahScifi #NAAMSeattle #BookVendingMachine #OctaviaButler #ManzelBowman #AFewRulesForPredictingTheFuture #OctaviaKnew #Afrofuturism #SeattleReads #SupportBlackBookstores
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đź“– Speculative Masterpiece đź“–
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
Everfair is a wonderful neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier.
Steampunk, revolution, and reimagined history — Nisi Shawl’s Everfair is ready for your weekend stack.
đź“Ť Find it at the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine inside the Northwest African American Museum (www.naamnw.org).
#SistahScifi #NAAMSeattle #BookVendingMachine #Everfair #NisiShawl #Afrofuturism #Steampunk #SeattleReads #PNWReaders #SpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackBookstores
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🎨 Weekend Comics Drop 🎨
Bitter Root by @davidf.walker
Monster-hunting meets family drama in the award-winning Bitter Root. Fresh in the machine for graphic novel fans.
đź“Ť Find it at the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine inside @naamnw.
#SistahScifi #NAAMSeattle #BookVendingMachine #BitterRoot #BlackComics #GraphicNovel #Afrofuturism #SeattleReads #PNWReaders #BlackStoriesMatter #SupportBlackBookstores
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