Authors on the Move for the Sacramento Literacy Foundation [March 2026]
past events
“Science Fact in Science Fiction: Getting It Right in SFF” panel in Quasar: a Fall Online Nebula Event [November 16]
“Out of this World: Conversations with Local Speculative Fiction Authors” dual panels at Fireside Books & More in Redwood City [November 14]
- “Tropes, trends, and themes: tomorrow’s SFF” with Julia Vee, Nikhil Prabala, Millie Abecassis, and Janie Kim
- “Comfort vs social critique: irreconcilable?” with Hana Lee, T.A. Chan, and Julie Leong
Book launch: The King Must Die, in conversation with Hana Lee at Books Inc., Palo Alto [November 4]
“Melanin Matrices: Black Speculative Lit.” group reading at Lit Crawl in San Francisco [October 25]
“Generation Women” storytelling event at Litquake – The Lost Church in San Francisco [October 23]
Flights of Foundry 2025 [September 26-28]
- “The Added Depth of Speculative World Building” panel
- “Speculative Biology” panel
Saga Press 10th Anniversary Celebration with Hana Lee and Rebecca Robinson at Towne Center Books, Pleasanton [June 19]
Locus Awards – Featured Local Author at Nile Hall, Oakland [June 20 – 21]
- Kick-off mixer – in-person reading
- “The Plot Thickens” panel with Sarah Gailey and Tochi Onyebuchi
- Awards ceremony – presenting Best Novella
Balticon 59 – a Guest of Honor in Baltimore, Maryland [May 23-24]
- “Ancient Ghosts, Alien Ghosts: An Overview of the Big Five Mass Extinctions and Opportunities for Speculative Biology” lecture
- Opening Ceremonies – presenting the Compton Crook Award
- “Revolutions are Messy” panel
- “Love in Our Fiction” panel
- “It’s Life, But Not as We Know It” panel
Short Story Hour with Madeleine Robins [April 30]
The World As It Could be: A Benefit for Chapter 510 with Nnedi Okorafor at the California Ballroom, Oakland [April 29]
“Out of this World: Writing Science Fiction” talk for Writer’s Week at Los Altos High School [March 4]
2024
Kepler’s 2024 Halloween Party at Kepler’s Bookstore [October 31]
“Worlds Collide: Science and Science Fiction” talk for STEAM Week at Los Altos High School [October 16]
“New Encounters of the Weird Kind: Fresh Voices in Sci-fi and Fantasy” panel at Litquake [October 15]
Flights of Foundry 2024 [September 27-29]
- “Scientists who Write Science Fiction” discussion
- “Building Worlds: Crafting Credible Science-Fiction Settings” workshop
- “Ace and Aro Representation in Fiction” panel
Writers with Drinks with Maia Kobabe, Jaime Cortez, Annalee Newitz, and Susan Stryker, hosted by Charlie Jane Anders at Strut [September 24]
Paperback edition launch: The Splinter in the Sky at Griffin Bay Bookstore & Cafe [August 13]
In conversation: We Carry the Sea in Our Hands by Janie Kim at Books Inc. [July 9]
Balticon 58 – a Guest of Honor in Baltimore, Maryland [May 24-27]
- “There’s No Such Thing as Apolitical Fiction” panel
- Opening Ceremonies
- “Decolonizing Genre Fiction” panel
- Compton Crook Winner Kaffeeklatsch
- Autographs with Alex Jennings
- “Creating Believable Cultures” panel
“Out of this World: Writing Speculative Fiction” talk at Oak Noll Elementary School [April 24]
“Out of this World: Building a Science Fiction Story” talk for Writer’s Week at Los Altos High School [March 14]
“Africa Risen: African Speculative Fiction from Ghana to Gambia” panel at Virtuous Con [February 24]
Sistah Scifi Series Discussion, hosted by the San Francisco Public Library [February 1]
2023
“The Science Behind The Splinter in the Sky” talk hosted by Sistah Scifi at The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room [October 26]
“Adult SFF Debuts” panel hosted by Utopia State of Mind [September 3]
“Dangerous Worlds” panel at the Gotham Writers’ Workshop Genre Fiction Conference [August 12]
Book launch: The Splinter in the Sky, in conversation with Tananarive Due at Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena [July 11]
“Keeping the Thread: Weaving Complex Worlds into Engaging
Stories” panel at Locus Awards, Oakland [June 24]
“Building Worlds: Crafting Credible Science-Fiction Settings” workshop at Flights of Foundry 2023 [April 15]
Kemi Ashing-Giwa 