Festival 451iNDY: Annual Ray Bradbury Writers Talk: Sheree Renée Thomas

The Annual Ray Bradbury Memorial Writers Talk, presented as part of Festival 451iNDY, welcomes New York Times-bestselling, award-winning author, poet, and editor Sheree Renée Thomas for a public conversation about speculative storytelling, cultural memory, and the power of imagining worlds beyond the one we know.

A pioneering voice in Afrofuturism and Black speculative fiction, Thomas has helped expand whose stories, histories, and futures are represented in science fiction and fantasy. She is the history-making first Black editor of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction" and the author and editor of numerous works of fiction, poetry, and speculative literature.

The Ray Bradbury Memorial Writers Talk honors Bradbury’s legacy by bringing contemporary writers into conversation with the questions at the heart of his work: How does storytelling help us understand the world around us? Whose stories shape our sense of what is possible? And what role can imagination play in how we think about our communities and our shared future?

Thomas will join Dr. Jason Aukerman, Director of the Ray Bradbury Center, for a conversation followed by audience Q&A and a book signing.

Presented by the Ray Bradbury Center in partnership with Kheprw Institute and Ujamaa Community Bookstore, with support from Indiana Humanities. The event is free and open to the public.