Aunt Lute

07/29/2026

Have a favorite Aunt Lute title? We'd love to hear from our followers! Share your fave Aunt Lute book in the comments.

07/27/2026

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07/23/2026

We're thrilled for Gwendolyn Paradice, author of The Divining Season, to be an official panelist of the 2026 Mississippi Book Festival! This year's festival will take place on September 26, 2026, at the Mississippi State Capitol. Gwendolyn will serve as a panelist alongside authors such as George Saunders, Kate McKinnon, and many more!

Learn more about the festival at msbookfestival.com.

07/23/2026

Thank you to Gazetteer San Francisco for featuring Aunt Lute Books in its list of independent publishers in San Francisco!

https://sf.gazetteer.co/prints-of-the-city

07/15/2026

Thank you to all who recently attended The Monsters We Know: Black Horror as Resistance. Special thanks to Sistah Scifi and Frontier Tower moderator Ayize Jama Everett, and featured authors Tamika Thompson and Justin C. Key. Be sure to check out their latest books!

07/10/2026

The Monsters We Know: Black Horror as Resistance brings together Tamika Thompson (The Curse of Hester Gardens), Justin C. Key (The Hospital at the End of the World), moderated by Ayize Jama-Everett (Heroes of an Unknown World) for a conversation on what Black horror does that other horror won't touch.

Aunt Lute is proud to join Sistah Scifi to amplify this one.

📍 Saturday, July 11
🕑 2PM to 4:30PM PDT
📍 Frontier Tower, San Francisco

RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-monsters-we-know-black-horror-as-resistance-tickets-1991776874248?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

07/08/2026

Attending the 2026 Summer Institute with Mujeres Activas MALCS? Find Aunt Lute on site as a book vendor!

Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social/Women Active in Letters and Social Change (MALCS) is an organization of Chicanas/ Latinas and Native American women working in academia and in community settings with a common goal: to work toward the support, education and dissemination of Chicana/ Latina and Native American women’s issues.

Visit their website at MALCS.org to learn more.

07/06/2026

In honor of Tamika Thompson's upcoming event with Aunt Lute & Sistah Scifi, "The Monsters We Know," we're highlighting the 2019 Aunt Lute title Graffiti, edited by Pallavi Dhawan, Devi S. Laskar, and Tamika Thompson!

The editors of Graffiti gave the contributors a special challenge: to write in a way that centers neither "whiteness" nor "anti-whiteness”, that is not limited by their struggle, their oppression, or how their characters will be received by the white imagination. To create a literary safe space of creative play far removed from the white gaze. A place where POC can focus on one another in solidarity.

Buy a copy today via IndiePubs!
https://ow.ly/YocG50ZktKP

07/05/2026

Join Aunt Lute & Sistah Scifi for a conversation on Black horror, resistance, truth, and liberation. During this discussion, moderated by Ayize Jama Everett, Tamika Thompson, and Justin C. Key will examine how Black horror transforms lived experience into powerful narratives of fear, truth, and liberation. This conversation will explore the ways Black horror engages memory, survival, and resistance, offering space to reflect on the genre’s political, cultural, and imaginative power. Come be part of an evening of insight, conversation, and community centered on the transformative possibilities of Black horror.

When: Saturday, July 11, 2026, 2 pm
Where: 995 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Register via Eventbrite: https://ow.ly/foAF50Zkjyr

07/05/2026