Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

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Hugo, NAACP Image Award finalist, Nebula, WFA, Locus, BFA, Otherwise winner. BSFA, Sturgeon finalist. 1st Black Asimovs's award winner
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I'm in this article on People about authors against book bans, alongside members like VE Schwab, Julia Quinn of Bridgerton, & others.

The existence of assassination implies the existence of boobboobsination and buttbuttination

Republican on republican crime

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Virtual ICFA Call For Papers locusmag.com/2024/07...

Virtual ICFA Call For Paperslocusmag.com VICFA 3, the third Virtual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts, is open to academic and creative proposals. The theme of the conference is “Pantheology in World-Building an…

Submissions are now open for what will be my 10th anthology, 11th book, 15th work edited. We'll be open for subs till Sep, pay 8c/w. Much thanks to @solarisbooks.bsky.social & @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social for bringing this vision to fruition 🫶🏾 How it started How it's going

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So many editors I respect in that post. Much respect to them all

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#InterviewWithTheVampire is such an effing masterpiece of a performance, it hurts. It's half triggering, half electrifying. You watch it in small doses because too much just might be lethal. And yet you can't put it down when your current hit is done.

So I'll be at @buffalonasfic2024.bsky.social virtually schedule.buffalonasfic2024.org/people/1431

I know this is a serious topic, but the existence of the ones who walk away from omelas implies the existence of the ones who run, jump, skip, swim away from omelas. Also, the ones who fly away from omelas, who spacewalk away from omelas & who teleport away from omelas.

I never get over the shock of checking my status and randomly seeing Idris viewed it . Gets me every time 😄. Like bruh you're usually on my TV, not my status

The existence of samurai implies the existence of smithurai. Also, frodourai

Saw the breakdown of Locus award votes in the July issue of @locusmag.bsky.social and it turns out I have the 2nd highest votes for best anthology next to Jordan Peele, for our small press published Year's Best African SF, & 3rd highest votes for best editor. 🙂 Thanks to all who voted! 🥳

So the call for papers, for the Virtual International Conference For the Fantastic In The Arts 3 is out. The theme for this year is Pantheology in World-Building & Magic Systems. Our guests of honour are P Djeli Clark & RR Virdi. Our guest scholars A.D. Lobel & Grace Dillon

So voting for the British Fantasy award is closing today. You can still see and consider my longlisted, eligible works till close of day, here...

So voting is on for the British Fantasy award & I have eligible works: Non-fiction, Intro To Afropantheology. Indendent Press, OD Ekpeki Presents, which co-published the Afropantheology collection & Locus shortlisted, Year's Best African SF volume 2 www.publicbooks.org/introduction...

Introduction to Afropantheologywww.publicbooks.org Afropantheology seeks the freedom of the artist to express stories unbridled by Western labels and terminologies and the need for conformity to defined (often limited) literary standards.

The existence of caucasian implies the existence of cauafrican, caucnativeamerican, cauclatino and Cauccaribbean.

So voting for the British Fantasy award is closing in a week. You can see and consider my Longlisted, eligible works here...

Acceptance in my inbox. Woke up today, literally to it 🌞. For what's imo the best short story I've ever written. And to the most fitting venue for it too 🥰. More info soon.

Aww. Humans have taken your dog to work day. Meanwhile dogs have take your human to walk everyday. 💀

#HouseofThedragon s2 e1 looks so crisp. Reminds me there's nothing quite like epic fantasy done right. Makes me think, are we ever getting a Dragonlance adaptation? 😭😭😭 Memory Sorrow & Thorn would be good to see. But something that'd really be it, The Riftwar Saga.

The existence of warm regards implies the existence of cold regards and hot regards. Also, tepid regards, luke warm regards.

The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3 on Publishers Weekly fall preview list

The toc for the Year's Best African Speculative Fiction volume 3 is out today, along with the YBASF 2024 recommended reading list. It features authors @tananarivedue.bsky.social @wtalabi.bsky.social @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social and others. You can see more info at the link...

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Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2023 Table of Contentsfile770.com The table of contents has been released for The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction volume 3 edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Ebere Eziaghighala, along with a recommended …

So the Nommo award is now open for voting, from now till July 7th. ASFS members can vote for my works, Destiny Delayed for short story, you can read on Apex Mag, at the quoted link, & Land of the Awaiting Birth with for novella, you can request to read here www.africansfs.com/nommo-awards...

So I'm a Nommo award finalist in 2 categories; best novella & short story. Land of the Awaiting Birth with Joshua Uchenna Omenga & Destiny Delayed on Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, a Nebula finalist & 1st story by a Black person to win the Asimov's award

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And here's the full BFA longlist including pieces by @kurellian.bsky.social, @lyndseycroal.bsky.social, @hachepueyo.bsky.social, @aijiang.bsky.social, @penprince.bsky.social, and others. Even if you're not a voter, it's worth checking it for great stories. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Suggest eligible material for the British Fantasy Awards 2024 (Responses)docs.google.com Form responses 1 Timestamp,What do you want to do?,Category,Suggestion,What's up?,What's your question? 04/06/2024 17:29:42,Suggest something,Anthology (multi-author book of stories etc),At Midnight:...

The existence of director at large implies the existence of director at me. 🙂

Happy to announce that I've been elected to the @sfwa.bsky.social board of directors, as a director-at-large. Far as we know, I'll be the first African on the board. 🙂