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 twoContinue reading “2023 Hugo Award Finalist”
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2023 Locus award win
So I and my co-editors, Sheree Renee Thomas and Zelda Knight won 2023 the Locus award, for best anthology, with Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction. This will make me the first African editor to win the Locus award, and the first African born-Black person to. You can see my acceptance speech hereContinue reading “2023 Locus award win”
Asimov’s Science Fiction Reader’s Award Winner
So I just won, & will be the first Black person to win the Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine reader’s award, with my short story Destiny Delayed, which was also a Nebula, finalist and British Science Fiction award nominee. It’s been translated to Chinese and Italian, and will appear in Science Fiction World (Chinese), Robot MagContinue reading “Asimov’s Science Fiction Reader’s Award Winner”
Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (& Poetry) Volume 2 TOC
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”
‘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”
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki 