My 2023 Award Eligibility Post

Short stories: ‘The Pet of Olodumare‘ by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Joshua Uchenna Omenga in F&SF Mag, July/Aug 2023. ‘The Magazine of Horror ‘ in Apex Mag, July/Aug 2023. Eligible for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA,BFA, Stoker, Sturgeon, etc

Novella/Long/longer fiction: ‘Land of The Awaiting Birth‘ by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Joshua Uchenna Omenga in Between Dystopias: The Road To Afropantheology, Oct 2023. Eligible for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, BFA, Stoker, Sturgeon, etc

Novelette/Long/Longer fiction: ‘A City, A Desert & All Their Dirges’ by Somto Ihezue & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. A 10k word novelette appearing in the Sauuti anthology. Published by Android Press in Dec 2023. Eligible for the Hugo, Nebula, BSFA, BFA, Stoker, etc.

Short non-fiction/Related work: ‘Between Dystopias: The Road To Afropantheology (Introduction) ‘by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Joshua Uchenna Omenga, in Public Books, Oct 2023. Eligible for the Hugo, BSFA, BFA, Stoker, etc

Collection: ‘Between Dystopias: The Road To Afropantheology’ by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Joshua Uchenna Omenga. (Caezik Books/OD Ekpeki Presents, Oct 2023). Eligible for the BSFA, BFA, Stoker, etc.

Anthology/Editor, Short form: ‘The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 2‘ by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Milton Davis & Eugen Bacon. (Caezik Books & OD Ekpeki Presents, Dec 2023).Eligible for the Locus, BSFA, BFA, etc. I also edited The Long Fall Up and Other Stories”, a collection by William Ledbetter, for Interstellar Flight Press.

Best Fancast: ‘If This Goes On, Don’t Panic’ with Alan Bailey, Cat Rambo, Dianne Morrison, Ken Schrader & OD Ekpeki. Eligible for the Hugo award.

Best Related Work: ‘VICFA 2: AAAA – AI, Algorithms, Automata & Art’ by the IAFA, VICFA guests of honour Martha Wells, Annalee Newitz, & Steven Barnes. Guest scholars Wole Talabi, Jennifer Rhee, & Alec Nevala-Lee. VICFA Admin, VICFA conference coordinator OD Ekpeki, and also Alexis Brooks De Vita, Novella Brooks De Vita & Andrew Erickson. Eligible for the Hugo award.

Ps: All three of the Distinguished Scholars broke the IAFA’s long history of racial barriers. Wole Talabi is the IAFA’s first ever Continental African person to be a Distinguished Scholar, has broken a very obvious racial barrier. Jennifer Rhee is the first woman of Asian descent to be recognized as a Special Guest of any kind by the IAFA. Alec Nevala-Lee is the first person of Chinese descent to be recognized as a Distinguished Scholar.