We’re thrilled to announce the authors for the Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021-2022 anthology. The Second Installment of the World Fantasy award winning, Locus, British Fantasy award nominated Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology series will be published in August 1, 2023, and you can pre-order it here. This year’s volume is guest editedContinue reading “Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (& Poetry) Volume 2 TOC”
Author Archives: Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki - ODE
‘Destiny Delayed’, Nebula & Asimov’s Readers Award Finalist
My genre bender short story Destiny Delayed, is a finalist these past two weeks, in the Nebula award for short story, and the Asimov’s Readers Award poll. First published and podcasted in Asimov’s, it has been reprinted in Apex and Galaxy’s Edge Mag, and translated and reprinted in Chinese – Science Fiction World, Italian andContinue reading “‘Destiny Delayed’, Nebula & Asimov’s Readers Award Finalist”
NAACP Image Award nomination
The Africa Risen anthology, edited by I, Sheree Renee Thomas and Zelda Knight is a nominee in the 54th NAACP Image Awards, Outstanding Literary Work – fiction. You can see the full list of nominees here The anthology, published by Tordotcom, got a starred review from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and additional reviews from LibraryContinue reading “NAACP Image Award nomination”
My 2022 Editing/Publishing Year In Review
I started the year, literally from the first day, embroiled in a grueling battle with publishing giant Amazon KDP, after they illegally kicked down work published by my small press Jembefola Press, and seized the proceeds of those sales, going in $2000. After a massive, social media campaign, the likes of which I’d repeat laterContinue reading “My 2022 Editing/Publishing Year In Review”
Finalists for the 2021 Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award For Disability In Speculative Fiction
So the finalists for the inaugural edition of the Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award For Disability In Speculative Fiction are For the Disabled writers category Jaye Viner’s “Cannibalism in the Inhuman Age” in Drabblecast Christine Lucas’s “Echoes of a Broken Mind” in Future SF Marissa Lingen’s “So Your Grandmother Is a Starship Now: A QuickContinue reading “Finalists for the 2021 Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award For Disability In Speculative Fiction”
2022 World Fantasy Award win
So I recently won the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology, presented at the 2022 World Fantasy Convention that took place at the Hyatt Regency hotel, New Orleans. The award was awarded for the first ever Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology I edited and published with the small press I founded to doContinue reading “2022 World Fantasy Award win”
2022 Awards Eligibility Post/List
Fiction Destiny Delayed – short fiction story of 5700 words. Genre bender. Eligible for the Hugo, Nebula, WFA, BSFA, BFA, Locus, Bram Stoker, Sturgeon, etc. First published in Asimov’s and reprinted in Galaxy’s Edge. You can listen to a narration of it on the Asimov’s Podcast. Long non-fiction/Editing/Anthology Bridging Worlds – Global Conversations On CreatingContinue reading “2022 Awards Eligibility Post/List”
Destiny Delayed
Destiny Delayed, a Nebula and Asimov’s readers award finalist, is a 5700 word afrofuturistic, genre bender short story. It’s set in a near future Lagos, Nigeria and features predatory, uber capitalistic corporations, people full of heart but faced with difficult decisions and the consequences when you mix those two in a place with power matrixesContinue reading “Destiny Delayed”
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations On Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature In a Pandemic
The Bridging Worlds non-fiction anthology examines the difficulties Black people and African writers faced in the 2020 pandemic-lockdown breakout year and how they navigated them. Bridging Worlds seeks to explore the threads and lines that connect us as we navigated this singular yet multifaceted experience, and show that connection in the various non-fiction pieces writtenContinue reading “Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations On Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature In a Pandemic”
ICFA 44 Guest of Honor
So I’ll be the 2023 International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) Guest of Honour, the 1st African-born Black writer to be guest of honour. This will be at the International Conference For the Fantastic In The Arts (ICFA) 44, taking place in 2023. It’s an immense honour, one that’s been held byContinue reading “ICFA 44 Guest of Honor”
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki 