Black Futures Book Club

An immersive gathering in Seattle where literature becomes a portal for collective dreaming, critical reflection, and liberated imagination.

Black futurist literary lieux compels us to engage in generative dialogue and reflection about the substance of our living as Black folks – to dream our futures, in light of the complexities of our pasts and present. We highlight and even venerate the ancestral, as we grieve the layers of suffering that have been inflicted – the dystopias of Diaspora dealings – and imagine futures unfettered. We consider the possibilities, implications and ethical considerations of modern technologies and trends in design. Literally, and literarily, what do our (liberated) Black futures comprise?

Each month we will devote our attention to a selected title from within these vast categories, centring the works of foundational authors such as Octavia E. Butler and Samuel Delany, alongside contemporary writers including Rivers Solomon, N.K. Jemisin, Tomi Adeyemi and others.

May date TBD. Black Futures book club will meet virtually in July, November, and December.

Current Book List (2026)

April 27: The Abbott – graphic novel series by Saladin Ahmed

May 18: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit Indigoqueer Speculative Fiction

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

September 28: You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado

October 26: The Black Girl Survives this One – Anthology

November 23 (Virtual): Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi

December 28 (Virtual): Ring Shout by P.Djeli Clark

Previously Read:

January: We are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull

February: We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older

March 23: When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen