Please join us for a virtual reading and panel event celebrating the 75th Birthday of literary legend Octavia E. Butler.

Ibi Zoboi, New York Times Bestselling author (Moderator)

Tananarive Due, American Book Award Winner for The Living Blood series

Steven Barnes, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery writer

Adrienne Maree Brown, author, and host of Octavia's Parables podcast

Daniel Jose Older, New York Times bestselling author of Ballad & Dagger

Sheree Renee Thomas, award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor

Bethany C. Morrow, Indie Bestselling author

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER was a renowned writer who received a MacArthur Genius Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. She was the author of several award-winning novels including Parable of the Sower, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. Sales of her books have increased enormously since her death as the issues she addressed in her Afrofuturistic, feminist novels and short fiction have only become more relevant. She passed away on February 24, 2006.

Octavia Butler's 75th Birthday Group Event