Back in 2001, I was an aspiring writer attending the Clarion West Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop in Seattle. Butler had attended a Clarion workshop 30 years prior as a student, but now ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The pilot, directed by Janicza Bravo, has led to an eight-episode series order Octavia E. Butler‘s Kindred is officially coming to ...

Actress Mallori Johnson first encountered the work of writer Octavia Butler when she read “Fledgling,” a novel about a young Black vampire. It was the summer before she left home for the Julliard ...

Kindred, the time-travel drama premiering on Hulu this week, marks the first time Octavia Butler’s seminal science fiction novel has been brought to screen — but it’s not the first attempt. Nearly 40 ...

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Science fiction writer Octavia Butler’s most beloved Kindred is coming to the small-screen in a limited series for FX. The series will follow Dana James, a Black woman and a writer who shockingly ...

The series adapts Butler's 1979 novel about a Black woman who travels between the modern day and Antebellum times. First published in 1979, “Kindred” focuses on Dana James, a young Black aspiring ...

In a beautiful essay in Vulture, published earlier this year, E. Alex Jung writes that Octavia E. Butler “never told an aspiring writer they should give up, rather that they should learn, study, ...

Octavia Butler created “Kindred” as a response to one of the prevailing notions in the 1970s Black Power movement regarding previous generations’ seemingly quiet forbearance under slavery and Jim Crow ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (UPI) --Actress Mallori Johnson said she always was keenly aware of the gravity anchoring her TV adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's 1979 novel Kindred, which follows Dana, a ...

In his TV adaptation of the Octavia Butler novel, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins changed parts of the story but kept the author’s focus on “making the familial political.” By Salamishah Tillet “If a ‘Kindred’ ...