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Sheree Renée Thomas The tongue Sheree Renée Thomas dreams in is soft and sharp, ethereal and down-home.

Cadwell Turnbull reads post 23, "The Middle of What?," from May 25, 2011. You can read the original blog post here: Cadwell Turnbull's website is

A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first bla...

The Endless Wonders Books Festival is a one day event taking place October 3, 2026 in Portland, OR celebrating PNW authors.

The Antidote, Karen Russell (Knopf 978-0-59380-225-0, $30.00, 432pp, hc) March 2025. After reading and listening to several “most anticipated books of 2025” articles and podcasts that linked Karen …

In her new podcast, Dmae Lo Roberts talks about science fiction, alien visitors, how science and art interact, and Indigenous tradition with the Portland author of "Robopocalypse" and his new novel "H...

Issue No. 5 of Tar Baby Quarterly, guest edited by acclaimed writer and editor Sheree Renée Thomas, explores Black speculative imagination through the theme “Afro Future / Dark Matters.” The issue br...

As a community, we have a duty to help protect one another and keep our community as healthy as possible. We cannot totally eliminate risk at an in-person event being held when COVID-19 is still…

The five-title 2025 PEN/Faulkner shortlist for fiction has been announced, with titles and authors of genre interest, including Ghostroots by ’Pemi Aguda (Norton) and James by Percival Everett (Dou…

It's time to start planning your Norwescon 47 weekend! Our schedule of panels and events, lists of attending pros, panelists, and performers, and list of attending artists are now live!

Winners of the 2025 Libby Book Awards, “as chosen by… over 1,100 librarians and library staff from across North America,” have been announced, including winners of genre interest.…

An SF&F themed anthology about pirates from the small press Zombies Need Brains!

Nebula Awards® Eligibility Eligibility for published works runs from January 1 – December 31 of a given year.  The finalists are usually announced the following March. The 60th Nebula Awards® for work...

We mean this in the best of ways: The Portland area is lousy with bookstores. It’s well known that we’re a booklover’s paradise, home to some of the best bookstores in the country. Many of them are located near TriMet bus and MAX lines, making it easy to get to your destination. Here’s a list of seven excellent bookstores you can visit by TriMet, making your trip the eco-friendly, cost-effective and stress-free way to get there. Let’s go!