Ekpeki’s debut novel acquired by publisher of H.G. Wells, Jules Vernes, Heinlein & G.R.R. Martin
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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3 TOC & Recommended Reading List
You can get the paperback here And get the ebook here and on Amazon KDP The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3 will be out later this year, in the month of November. It’s edited by myself and guest edited by Chinaza Eziaghighala. It will be published by Caezik Books, of Arc Manor. VolumeContinue reading “The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3 TOC & Recommended Reading List”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
Africa Risen Starred Review on Publisher’s Weekly
So earlier this week, the Africa Risen anthology by myself, Sheree Renée Thomas and Zelda Knight got its first review. The review will be my first Publisher’s Weekly starred review and also likely the first PW started review by an African edited speculative fiction anthology. You can see it here on Publishers Weekly, and pre-orderContinue reading “Africa Risen Starred Review on Publisher’s Weekly”
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki 