While attending the Black Romance Book Fest in Atlanta a year ago, Dominique Calixte kept hearing the same thing from Black authors when she asked what it would take for them to come to Boston: There is not a market for them to push their publishers to send them here.

As a Boston native, she knew this was not the case, as she and others she knew were fans of these books in her city, yet the Black authors she spoke with at the festival kept telling her they needed proof that community members would attend their book events.

Hearing these answers sparked Calixte to create her own book community, Bookish Black Boston, to bring more Black book events to the city. The group has grown to 75 members who are mostly local to the city, with a few members located in Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Having this book community inspired her to create a series of Black book events in the city, including the “Pages” series, which started last summer, where members get together to talk about books. Each member who attended went home with a goodie bag of donations from publishers.

Calixte is now promoting her upcoming event, “Pages and Petals,” which she said is the biggest installment yet of the series, as this is the first time that a local author will be joining them. Thee Tasha Marie, the author of several

Black romance novels, will speak about her writing journey. Her latest book, “Keepin’ Up with the Joneses,” will be released soon.

This event will be held at the Boston Flower Company on March 28 from 2 to 4 p.m. at 468 River St. in Mattapan.

It is described as “a curated experience designed to celebrate Black women, creativity and the power of stories.” It will include a guided floral workshop, author spotlight, raffles and goodie bags, and “intentional connection.”

“The other piece of it is the opportunity to connect with other readers, get to know people, talk about books that you’re reading and recommendations that you may have for somebody, because nobody’s ever reading the same book, really, and it’s not a particular genre — we accept every reader as they are,” Calixte said.

While she acknowledges and appreciates the work that book spaces, such as the Boston Book Festival, have been doing to diversify their offerings, Calixte said she realizes that because these spaces have to appeal to a wider audience, they cannot focus on Black books and authors in the way that Bookish Black Boston can.

“They do a good job of trying to diversify it, but it’s one of those things where that particular festival has such a wide audience, and so prioritizing bringing in Black authors isn’t the only sense of diversity that they have to bring in.

… A lot of the women in the group chat, they’re romance readers, and like a lot of the romance authors [who] in particular aren’t coming to Boston, or at least the Black romance authors,” she said.

Calixte added that she hopes attendees of the “Pages and Petals” event will take away a lesson for their own literary journeys.

“I think the biggest lesson is [to] read what you love, continue to read what you love and to continue to support Black authors and uplift their work as you’re continuing to read what you love because it matters,” she said.

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Learn more about the Pages and Petals event at eventbrite.com/o/120969168897