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2023 World Fantasy award finalist

Just found out I’m a finalist for the World Fantasy award with Africa Risen, the anthology I co-edited with Sheree Renee Thomas and Zelda Knight. And this, on the same day as the British Fantasy award. New one for me, two major award nominations on the same day, with the same work. 🙂🥰 This willContinue reading “2023 World Fantasy award finalist”

2023 British Fantasy award finalist

So I’m a finalist in the 2023 British Fantasy award, with the Africa Risen anthology I co-edited. It will be my third consecutive year being a finalist, & fourth nomination since becoming the first African editor to win the award with the Dominion anthology, in 2021. Congrats to my amazing co-editors Sheree Renée Thomas &Continue reading “2023 British Fantasy award finalist”

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 twoContinue reading “2023 Hugo Award Finalist”

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”

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”