2025 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesdays

You made it halfway through the week! Celebrate with your Sistah Scifi Siblings! Grab a glass of wine and pull up as we discuss all things Black speculative fiction with members of our community! Wednesday is about to become your new favorite day of the week!

UPCOMING - 2025
08/20/2025: Susana M. Morris discusses Positive Obsession with cohost Kendra R. Parker (author of Understanding Octavia E. Butler)

08/27/2025: Moses Ose Utomi discusses The Memory of the Ogisi

09/17/2025: Cadwell Turnbull discusses A Ruin, Great and Free: Book 3 Of The Convergence Saga
09/24/2025: Britney S. Lewis discusses Blood Moon with cohost Sasha Fountain

10/15/2025: Derrick Barnes discusses The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze

10/22/2025: Shanora Williams discusses Mayhem and The Mortal with cohost Meci Reads
10/29/2025: Eden Royce discusses Psychopomp & Circumstance

11/12/2025: Akwaeke Emezi discusses Son of the Morning (Deluxe Limited Edition)

12/03/2025: Amber McBride discusses The Leaving Room

Past 2025 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday Guests:

02/27/2025: Dr. Judith Joseph discusses High Functioning
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHqfKzCRZY0/

05/14/2025: Kendra Parker discusses Understanding Octavia E. Butler

05/21/2025: Megan Giddings, Zelda Lockhart, and Bri's Bookish discussing Meet Me At The CrossRoads

07/09/2025: Clarence A. Haynes discussing The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery with cohosts Steffie Monique of Books and Bounty and Well Read and Rachet https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL-Z5qLCxp6/

07/23/2025: Ibi Zoboi discussing (S)kin with cohost Well Read and Rachet https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMgKelXCoyB/

08/06/2025: Be Steadwell discusses Chocolate Chip City with cohosts Junauda Petrus (author of The Stars and the Blackness Between Them) and Bri's Bookish

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Past 2024 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday Guests:

0 1/10/2024: Shawnee and Shawnelle Gibbs discussing Ghost Roast

0 1/17/2024: Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki discussing Between Dystopias (@ 12NOON PST)

0 1/24/2024: Tlotlo Tsamaase Womb City

0 1/31/2024 Nisi Shawl discussing Kinning https://www.instagram.com/reel/C35ixURRvJg/

02/28/2024 The AfroRevolution with Librarian Mychal Threets and Cassidy Bridges and Gabrielle W. Bridges
03/13/2024 Veronica G. Henry discussing The Canopy Keepers

03/20/2024 Cadwell Turnbull discussing We Are the Crisis

06/12/2024 Tiffany D. Jackson discussion Storm: Dawm of A Goddess

06/19/2024 Rebecca Roanhorse Mirrored Heavens

June 26th to July 24 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday are dedicated to the legacy of Octavia E. Butler as part of Seattle Reads: Parable of the Sower!

06/26/2024 Rashdia J. Smith discussing Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9C59J7xl4c/

07/03/2024 Nisi Shawl and Andrea Hairston discussing Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9C5-U_xFk-/

07/10/2024 Gwendolyn Wallace discussing Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

07/17/2024 Ibi Zoboi discussing Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

07/31/2024 LaDarrion Williams discussing Blood at the Root https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-5SdAGp26O/

08/28/2024 Nalo Hopkinson discussing Blackheart Man https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAYysNivdgt/

09/18/2024 Vincent Tirado discussing We Came to Welcome You

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10/02/2024 P Djeli Clark and Rob Cameron discussing Abeni's Song and Daydreamer https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAqi2mhPo_N/

10/09/2024 John Jenning and Damian Duffy discussing Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler as part of Seattle Reads by Seattle Public Library https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBE0JbTyIzQ/

10/16/2024 Jill Tew discussing The Dividing Sky

10/23/2024 Michele Tracy Berger and Mateo Askaripour discussing Doll Seed: Stories and This Great Hemisphere. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCnAzQ7yxib/

11/13/2024 Nicole Glover discussion The Improvisers https://www.instagram.com/sistahscifi/reel/DCW-fvGPk_7/

11/20/2024 Cebo Campbell discussing Sky Full of Elephants

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12/18 John Vercher discussing Devil is Fine with cohosts Well Read and Rachet and Sash Marguerite

Past 2023 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday Guests:

01/25/2023: K. Tempest Bradford discussing Ruby Finley

0 2/01/2023: Cerece Rennie Murphy: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CoJaqATK3V8/

02/08/2023: Rodney Barnes discussing Killadelphia: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Coa-yOPKws5/

0 2/15/2023: Ayize Jama-Everett: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CplAppdISGP/

0 2/22/2023: Nisi Shawl discussing Speculation: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpAzU0qJqRv/

0 3/01/2023: Liselle Sambury // Delicious Monsters: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CpShMi1oPML/

0 3/08/2023: Diane Marie Brown // Black Candle Women: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cqk9svkIhWi/

0 3/15/2023: Chinelo Anyadiegwu and Luisah Teish discussing African Mythology in Modern Literature: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cp1dfgwI-40/

0 3/22/2023: Latorrra Monk, Savannah Jackson, and Darnesha Weary discussing Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine: https://www.instagram.com/p/CqHSyZZII4X/

0 4/05/2023: Dr. Sian "Leo" Proctor, Angela Dalton, and Breanna McDaniel discussing Space Sistahs: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrH97_OIp76/

0 4/12/2023: Veronica Henry discussing The Foreign Exchange: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq9YYsvoIQR/

0 4/19/2023: Kai Adia, Amina Lovell, and Kaliyah Martin discussing indie publishing: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrPRuIkIPFF/

0 4/26/2023: Keem Hughley discussing Bronze restaurant

0 5/03/2023 Marti Dumas discussing Charmed Life: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cr4iaf6oVHb/

0 5/10/2023 Duane Horton and Julian Bleecker discussing Imagination as a Tool for Liberation: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsGWlddgL6u/

0 5/17/2023 Moses Ose Utomi discussing The Lies of Ajungo: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsXgjnOo_oF/

S UMMER BREAK 05/24 to 08/23

0 8/ 30/ 2023 Joelle Wellington discussing Their Vicious Games

9 /16/2024 Victor LaValle discussing The Changeling https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cw5RYzmL2k0/

0 9/13/ 2023: CM Lockhart We Are the Origin // We Are Dying Gods: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxVtmujLorx/

0 9/20/2023: T.L. Huchu The Mystery of Dunvegan Castlehttps://www.instagram.com/reel/CxioRnwLtY4/

0 9/27/2023: Clarence A Haynes and Omar Epps discussing Nubia: The Reckoning

1 0/04/2023: David Betancourt discussing The Avengers Assembled https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzAFHrArKLG/

1 0/11/2023 April Showers discussing We Are Afro Unicorns https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzACqbJLzb4/

1 1/8/ 2023: Tananarive Due discussing The Reformatory

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1 1/10/2023: Dr. Darcie Little Badger discussing Never Whistle At Night

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1 1/22/2023: Tlotlo Tsamaase Womb City with cohost Bri's Bookish

1 1/29/2023: Victor LaValle and Vincent Tirado The Changeling (Apple TV+)

1 2/06/2023: Coral Alejandra Moore discussing Summoner's Circle

1 2/13/2023: Suyi Davies Okungbowa discussing Warrior of the Wind

Past 2022 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday Guests:

01/12/2022 Tim Fielder: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CYpyPcPhrnk/

01/19/2022 Brandy Brown: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CY7zYCSBwtw/

01/26/2022 Tamara Ramsey: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZQE74thNWR/

02/02/2022: Devlin Dinish: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZf3J52hCH9/

02/16/2022: Tracie Angela Greene: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CaD6tDOIdzX/

03/02/2022: Rohan Zhou-Lee: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CbL59N5IHOF/

03/09/2022: M'Shai Dash: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Ca6AoP9Ij5o/

03/23/2022 LaDonna Welch: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cbd6h-5qgRU/

03/30/2022: Kosoko Jackson: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cbv9kaNqTvZ/

04/06/2022: Angela Dalton Discussing Girl on Fire: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CcB_1FopSEs/

04/13/2022: Rohan Zhou-Lee: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcUAfVpJ3Uh/

04/20/2022: Jurian Isabelle discussing God of Dreams (film): https://www.instagram.com/tv/CcmCK8rJVk9/

04/27/2022: Indie Bookstore Day Celebration: https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cc4Cl7xpl_b/

• Four Black Booksellers will discuss plans for Indie Book Day and their favorite Black Speculative Novel! Join Isis of Sistah Scifi (She/They) discussing The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae, Jazzi of Reparations Club (She/Her) discussing Grievers by Adrienne Marie Brown, Malik of Malik Books (He/His) discussing Girl on Fire by Alicia Keys, Michelle of The Collective Oakland (She/Hers) discussing Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler, and Isoke of Book Soup (They/Them) discussing Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James.

05/04/2022: Jennifer Brissett discussing Destroyer of Light

05/25/2022: Vincent Tirado discussing Burn Down Rise Up

06/08/2022: Briana Forbes and Erika Hardison discussing The Memory Librarian: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CekPImuInxQ/

06/15/2022: Rebecca Hall discussing Wake, queerness, and Juneteenth https://www.instagram.com/tv/Ce2LFmRpxEg/

07/13/2022: Featuring Black Library Monticello, New York https://www.instagram.com/tv/Cf-T7EjqhZk/

07/20/2022: Jazzmin AKA Jazz and Kathleen AKA Kat (Kat Daddy) discussing Black Was The Ink: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgQV_vloZDW/

07/27/2022: Michelle Coles discussing Black Was The Ink: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgiWcLSp7YE/

08/03/2022: Tara Betts discussing The Future of Black

08/10/2022: Leslye Penelope discussing The Monsters We Defy

08/17/2022: Otaku Noir discussing Skin of the Sea

08/24/2022: James Spooner discussing The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChqePq3IN35/

08/31/2022: Ayana Gray, Melody Cooper and Erika Hardison discussing Beasts of Prey // Beasts of Ruin

9/07/2022: Nisha Parker discussing Midnight Robber https://www.instagram.com/reel/CiOf6PJo5Tp/

9/28/2022: Kalynn Bayron discussing The Vanquishers https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjEquTqqxra/

10/05/2022: Angela Dalton discussing To Boldly Go https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjWlgaLp4NZ/

10/19/2022: Randi Pink & Erika Hardison discussing We Are the Scribes

11/02/2022: Karama Horne & Erika Hardison discussing Protectors of Wakanda https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmINu1EDUFw/

11/09/2022: Clarence A. Haynes & Omar Epps discussing Nubia: The Awakening https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ckw0ftsoc7B/

11/30/2022: Sheree Renee Thomas, Zelda Knight, and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki discussing Africa Risen https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClnAs3NIDmg/

12/07/2022: Leah Vernon discussing The Union https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cl5NzrdoK13/

12/14/2022: Jaclyn Banner discussing Kindred FX https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmUegBqIgvp/