Join me at NBAF (National Black Arts)’s Blacklisted! Banned Books Fair in Atlanta, GA on February 24th & 25th. Our panel, AFROFUTURISM AS A TOOL FOR LIBERATION, will be led by Dr. Renée Alexander Craft at 4:30 pm EST.

Resuming our featured author spree, today we would like to highlight Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki! Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer, editor, & publisher from Nigeria. 1/ 🧵 Kickstarter #intergalacticrejects

So nominating for the Nebula award is closing this week. And you can see my eligible works below, and consider them.

So voting for the Nebula award is closing in 2 days. You can consider my short story, The Pet of Olodumare, with Joshua Uchenna Omenga in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and other eligible works free to read at the link below.

The writer and editor, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, working from Nigeria, has seen his groundbreaking work with the anthology Dominion earn major acclaim in the US and the UK, including becoming the first Africa-born Black writer to earn a Hugo Award nomination. opencountrymag.com/oghenechovwe-d…

When I was in high school 🏫 I started reading 📖 The Onion and Scott Dikkers became my hero 🦸‍♂️. I joined my school newspaper 📰 because I knew I wanted to be a not-so-serious journalist and one day write ✍️ for The Onion 🧅, so I can’t tell you how profound this deal is for me.

Novella: • Broken Paradise by Eugen Bacon • Land of the Awaiting  Birth by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Joshua Uchenna Omenga • The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi • Undulation by  Stephen Embleton nommoawards.org #nommoawards #nommos #nommos2024

I'm a Nommo award finalist in 2 categories; novella & short story. Land of the Awaiting Birth with Joshua Uchenna Omenga & Destiny Delayed on Asimov's SF, a Nebula finalist & 1st story by a Black person to win the Asimov's award. Been translated into Chinese, Italian, Czech & Persian

Happy to announce that I've been elected to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association board of directors, as a director-at-large. Far as we know, I'll be the first African on the board. 🙂

So voting is on for the BFA. I have non-fiction with Joshua Uchenna Omenga on Public Books Intro To Afropantheology. For Inde Press, OD Ekpeki Presents co-published the Afropantheology collection & Locus shortlisted Year's Best African Speculative Fiction volume 2 publicbooks.org/introduction-t…

For short fiction, I have the BSFA Longlisted short stories, The Magazine of Horror on Apex Magazine apex-magazine.com/short-fiction/… & The Pet of Olodumare on The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. drive.google.com/file/d/1FcVP3l… For novella, the Nommo shortlisted Land of The Awaiting Birth.

"Sometimes, the people in the shop appeared ashen gray, like images in the negative of a film, their eyes hardly visible from their faces..." Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Joshua Uchenna Omenga's work “Land of the Awaiting Birth ” is a 2024 Nommo Awards Finalist in the Novella Category.

Hi guys! A huge favour. Please click on the link below and vote for me (LBH. Artist 29). I get the chance to sing a whole set in September. docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/e/…

Perhaps when we are as exported as Norse/Yoruba culture/mythology, we can afford to twist, chop and change without damaging us. For now, we must be correct, pass on our myths so that people learn them well.

please we need all the help we can get. gofundme.com/f/help-ds-falo… #ChronicPain #GoFundMe #WritingCommunity

Unpopular opinion, but opening lines are overrated. You have the whole story to be cool and say what you want. If its there, cool. But I wouldn't force it. I don't think it makes the work necessarily any better. But that's just me

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