2023 Hugo Award Finalist

So I’m a finalist in the 2023 Hugo award, for best editor, short form. I’ll the first Black man, and first African to be nominated in the best editor, short form category. This will be my second nomination in a row, and second time as editor. It’ll be my third Hugo award nomination in two years.

For the editing work I was nominated for, I co-edited fiction & edited non-fiction, the anthologies Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, also a winner of the Locus award. & the non-fiction anthology, Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations On Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature In A Pandemic. You can get them, Africa Risen by Tordotcom here
And the Bridging Worlds anthology, free here. And you can see instructions on how to get WorldCon membership and vote, here

One of the works I edited in the Africa Risen anthology, A Dream of Electric Mothers, was also a finalist in the best novelette category, making the author Wole Talabi, the second African writer after me, nominated in the Hugo award, best novelette category.