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Ancestral Futures is a non-profit, speculative literary arts and education organization, fiscally sponsored through 501(c)3 partnership with The Speculative Literature Foundation.

We amplify the writing of emerging speculative storytellers who identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, or People of Color (BIPOC+) by co-facilitating a speculative literary mentorship in collaboration with professional-level speculative writers from the Codex Writers’ Group.

https://ancestralfuturesorg.wordpress.com

Join Nomadic Press at Beast Crawl 2021 for a celebration of the many ways in which we howl into these dark nights.

Readings by Kemi Alabi (Graywolf Press), Stella Lei (The Augment Review), Taylor Byas (Soft Skull Press), Julio Montalvo Valentin (NightBallet Books), James Cagney (Nomadic Press), and Keith Donnell Jr. (Nomadic Press).

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MoonDrop Productions is the creation of Kelechi Ubozoh & Cassandra Dallett. MoonDrop is a quarterly, submission based/themed reading. We encourage writers to share their personal evolution, revolution, love, and lust. We strive to hear from a diverse group of writers and are committed to creating new spaces where those who haven’t been given a stage or proper love can shine. ‘New Shit’ is our 14th quarterly show, and in 2021 we are celebrating our 4-year anniversary.

Special event Hosted by Natasha Dennerstein

To Live & Write... Wherever You Are

is an online and in-person writing community based in the East Bay and open to writers from wherever they are, wherever they are on their writing journey.

#we is a bi-monthly talk and reading series of queer perspectives in Oakland, CA. Each installment features two presenters from various segments of the queer spectrum, each of whom give a prepared talk on their perspective on or experience of queerness, followed by a reading or performance of their creative work. The series has an emphasis on marginalization from without and/or within the queer community, though does not require that exclusively. This is a long-form event, meaning that each presenter is given up to half an hour to go into depth about their lives and into their writing. The presentations are followed by a Q&A and chat time.

#we ran from November 2018 through January 2020, then preferring an in-person experience, shut down due to the pandemic. It might start up again in 2022.

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Monthly Poetry Series