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@Penprince_

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Hugo, @NAACPImageAward finalist, Nebula, WFA, Locus, BFA, Otherwise winner. BSFA, Sturgeon finalist. 1st Black @Asimovs_SF award winner #ICFA44 , @CanConSF GoH

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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 months
So it's the cover reveal of the Year's Best African Speculative Fiction volume 3 by I and @Chinazaezims . The amazing cover was done by Cyrielle Prückner. And the anthology is now up for pre-order here We already announced the toc, which you can see below
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
4 months
The toc for the Year's Best African Speculative Fiction volume 3 edited by I & @Chinazaezims is out today, along with the YBASF 2024 recommended reading list. It features authors @TananariveDue @pdjeliclark @WTalabi @TendaiHuchu @Onjerika , etc You can see more info at the link...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
2022 goals̶: survive 2020 again, somehow, for the third time.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
2011, Jonathan administration, my 1st year in uni, my dad was kidnapped. We paid ransom, he was returned dead, body dropped on a field for us to pick up. Found candle wax on his body from being tortured with fire, & skin peeled off around his hands where he was tied too tightly.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Update on this. I'm alive, though I won't say well, yet. Currently in Nigeria. I was detained for 3 days, & missed the NAACP Image awards. Been seeing the speculations. I'll just say it's way worse than anyone is says or thinks. But I'll talk to a lawyer first, then more, soon
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
1 year
Turns out I just won, & will be the 1st Black person to win the @Asimovs_SF reader's award, with my story Destiny Delayed. It's a great honour to win an award that's been won by so many other awesome writers like Asimov, Kevin J Anderson, Ursula K Le Guin, Connie Willis, & others
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2022 Analog AnLab Award and Asimov’s Science Fiction’s Readers’ Award Winners
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Visa got approved. Turns out there was a #VisaForEkpeki 🙂. And I'll going to @chicagoworldcon #Chicon8 . It'll be my 1st international trip. First time flying in fact, even locally. 😄🤭 Uprooted, ungrounded by pen & words, funded & fought for by the genre & good, kind people
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Journey's end; won't be attending @chicagoworldcon . Or any other cons if my current mood is anything to go by & if this is how it goes. I can't anyway. Literally, mood asides. Got denied visa to the Worldcon by @USinNigeria today. It's not the denial but the how @abikedabiri
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
So I won the World Fantasy award for best anthology with the 1st ever Year's Best African Speculative Fiction I edited & published, with my @JembefolaPress . I'll be the 1st African born, Black writer, editor &, publisher to win the world fantasy award in its near 5 decade history
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World Fantasy Convention 2022
2 years
The winner of ANTHOLOGY #WorldFantasyAwards2022 is: The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), ed. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Jembefola Press)
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
So I'm happy to announce the first ever Year's Best African Speculative Fiction anthology. It is edited by yours truly and out under @JembefolaPress . 😇 Peep the cover below. TOC and other notable works we loved: pre-order
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
The @HugoAwards ceremony yesterday. I didn't win in any of the categories I was nominated in. But I didn't lose either, & I certainly don't feel sad. You see, that wasn't my fight. My fight was to be here, like the 3k plus other people that attended @chicagoworldcon #Chicon8
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
Three presidents now, 4 terms, and it's still the same exact thing. Nothing has changed. People will talk about the better times. Nigeria has never & can never be good. From East, South, North, West, same nonsense.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
So I sold a story to @Asimovs_SF , my first sale to one of the big 3 mags & my 3rd pro sale qualifying me for @sfwa full membership. Also my first published novelette, an original, climate fiction novelette is out today & free to read on @GalaxysEdgeMag
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
1 year
Just won the Locus award for best anthology. (Far as I know) it'll make me the 1st African editor & 1st African born-Black writer to win it at all. & for an anthology titled Africa Risen. My 6th nomination in 3 years. 1st time, 1. 2nd, 2 & 3rd, 3. 3rd time really is the charm. 🙂
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
1 year
AI art is the antithesis of representation, the natural outcome of undervaluing diverse narratives, multiple voices & proliferation of lived experiences. Its born from unchecked anti diversity, collapsing existing viewpoints into one static thing regurgitated eternally for profit
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
Telecoms did nothing. Didn't trace no numbers for us. They were calling us at their leisure. Every institution in this country is useless, has always been useless & will always be useless.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Now that it's officially 2022, I can now say I have a book coming out on Tor, Macmillan this year. 😇
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Published the 1st ever Year's Best African Speculative Fiction anthology Oct last year. @amazon @AmazonKDP said I couldn't get royalties for it till Jan this year. Then on Dec 31st they rushed to shut my account down, j TVust before we crossed over into the near year
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Journey's end; won't be attending @chicagoworldcon . Or any other cons if my current mood is anything to go by & if this is how it goes. I can't anyway. Literally, mood asides. Got denied visa to the Worldcon by @USinNigeria today. It's not the denial but the how @abikedabiri
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Some WorldCon recollections (an African writer's account). The very 1st world con I attended. Well not attended, registered for, I was the only African writer from Nigeria to. 2 from South Africa. 3 in total in the whole continent.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
Meanwhile the police are doing the exact same thing now they were doing now. Nothing. Mof they asked us for money to do their jobs. Almost as much money as the kidnappers. In the end there's no difference btw the two. Half the time, it's the police kidnapping you.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
So guess who is in town for @chicagoworldcon #Chicon8 😇
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
1 year
So I'm a finalist in the Hugo award, the first Black man, and first African to be nominated in the best editor, short form category. This will be my 2nd time in a row being nominated, and 2nd time as editor. It'll be my third nomination in 2 years. 🙂🥰
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chengduworldcon
1 year
The Hugo Finalist List
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
My climate fiction story O2 Arena a Hugo, BSFA & Nommo finalist just made me the 1st African, Nebula winner for novelette & 1st African born - Black, Nebula award winner 🥲🥰 You can read it & consider it for the Hugo & other awards
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Nominated for my 1st Hugo award, with my climate fiction novelette O2 Arena, also a Nebula & BSFA finalist. 🥰🥳 It'll make me the 1st African nominated in the novelette category, & the 1st African born, Black writer nominated at all. You can read it here
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Just won the World Fantasy award, for the 2nd time in row, for best anthology. & the only African editor to have won. Congrats to our publishers @TorDotComPub , the entire team, my co-editors @blackpotmojo & @AuthorZKnight , all our amazing contributors, WFA judges, all involved
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World Fantasy Convention 2023
1 year
The winner is: Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, eds. Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight (Tordotcom Publishing)
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
4 months
Happy to announce that I've been elected to the @sfwa board of directors, as a director-at-large. Far as we know, I'll be the first African on the board. 🙂
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3 years
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
You can't tell people in the fire how to think. You don't know how you'll think or what you'll do until you're in it. Both the victims and their family aren't thinking or reacting how you are now from the comfort of your phone. The people to have expectations of...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
As for talks of oh he's fine now, Well meaning. I appreciate you all. But I'm not fine, I'm angry. The talks of he must have overstayed & bla, I'll say people saying this dont know anything, what visa I have, how I used it, etc. But sure, ratify fascist, racist acts of empire
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
@_thesolicitor @osho_khai But how are you practicing what's not being practiced? 😄😄🤣🤣
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
@ImadeIyamu @iaboyeji Making a movie doesn't even necessarily mean glorifying. It's telling a story. Stories serve many purposes. It can be documentation or a warning. In any case it's owning your own narrative. It's left to see the purpose they put this story to. They haven't done anything wrong, yet
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
So I have an acceptance. Signed a contract, so I can talk about it. My climate fiction novelette O2 Arena will be reprinted in @apexmag 🥰
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
No Black SFF writers in Africa are represented by the biggest literary agents, aren't published by any of the big 5 or their imprints, aren't on the NYT or other major bestselling lists. They don't have any of the things that constitute big success in the SFF industry...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
A lot of people will say it's funding terrorism to crowdfund to pay kidnappers a ransom. But remember you are on your own as a Nigerian. The only solution you get is the one you make. & It may not be, does not have to be sensible or conventional. Do whatever you have to do.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Nominated for my 1st Hugo award, with my climate fiction novelette O2 Arena, also a Nebula & BSFA finalist. 🥰🥳 It'll make me the 1st African nominated in the novelette category, & the 1st African born, Black writer nominated at all. You can read it here
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Chicago Worldcon
3 years
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
Also why the North, South, region, religion agenda has always been nonsense. Nigeria has always been Nigeria. The same. It's never been better or worse. Sh*t hit the fan looong ago. So rotating faeces, flies everywhere. It just never hit you B4. Leave agenda
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
@pyjama_ceo Cuz you've managed university degree & some tiny achievements you are holding to your chest, you now think this makes sense & favours you. You don't know this is the mindset behind the Berlin conference division of Africa, racism & other kinds of bigotry that marginalize you too
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
“It’s still easier for a white person to write a book with an all-black cast set in fantasy Africa and get it published than for a black person.” Bad enough with trade publishing. Now add self publishing, short fiction, non-fiction & even freelancing...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
One minute you're a Hugo finalist, the next your nephew and niece want you to get down on all fours so they can ride you as their centaur. At least it's an SFF animal. 😩
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Just signed a contract. My Nommo award winning short story The Witching Hour will be reprinted and narrated in @PodCastle_org for their Indigenous Magic special issue.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
The 1st ever Year's Best African Speculative Fiction anthology I edited & published just made me the 1st Black African editor to be a World Fantasy award finalist. With it I'm also a Locus & the 1st African Hugo award, best editor finalist. Do consider it/me for the Hugo 😇
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Locus Magazine
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2022 World Fantasy Awards Finalists
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
New visa appointment for today. 🙂
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Journey's end; won't be attending @chicagoworldcon . Or any other cons if my current mood is anything to go by & if this is how it goes. I can't anyway. Literally, mood asides. Got denied visa to the Worldcon by @USinNigeria today. It's not the denial but the how @abikedabiri
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
So I'll be the 2023 ICFA Guest of Honour 🥰, the 1st African-born Black writer to be goh. An immense honour indeed, that's been held by 2 Nobel laureates; Isaac Bashevis Singer & Doris Lessing, the oldest Nobel prize in literature winner. I'll be the youngest ever ICFA GoH btw.
@IAFA_TW
IAFA 🐲🚀
2 years
We are very excited to announce our ICFA 44 Guest of Honor, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and our ICFA 44 Guest Scholar, Dr. Isiah Lavender III! #ICFA44
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
So your fav award winning editor has a new anthology out today. 🙂 It's a happy publication day to the 1st ever Year's Best African Speculative Fiction Anthology (2021). You can get it on Amazon & other stores...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
😯 Just saw this. My first editing award & I'll be the first African editor to win it too 🥺. It's an immense honour. Thanks to the @BritFantasySoc @AuthorZKnight my amazing co-editor, the nominees & all who supported us to kickstart, boost & review it. We're all winners 🤗❤️
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Most people don't know what books are. Half the time ya'll say books, even seasoned industry pros, they mean novels. Why else have a list of "books" with only novels. That's a list of novels. Anthologies are books, collections are books. Comics are books, graphic novels are books
what is your unpopular opinion about a book that would put you in this situation?
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
So my @UncannyMagazine debut is now free to read on the site. It's a non-fiction piece titled 'Too Dystopian for Whom? A Continental Nigerian Writer’s Perspective.' Bit long, at 3488 words, the longest essay they've published this year. I hope you like it.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
😯 Just saw this. My first editing award & I'll be the first African editor to win it too 🥺. It's an immense honour. Thanks to the @BritFantasySoc @AuthorZKnight my amazing co-editor, the nominees & all who supported us to kickstart, boost & review it. We're all winners 🤗❤️
@BritFantasySoc
British Fantasy Society
3 years
Best Anthology goes to: Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora ed. Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Ekpeki Donald @Penprince & @AuthorZKnight
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
AI crashing publishing and causing more rigorous or severe vetting, more distrust from the publishers/readers will affect the whole industry in the end, but the newer, younger writers first. The older, bigger folks will still get solicited. But the no-big name, slush soldier
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
You may have heard, I had visa complications recently while trying to attend the @naacpimageaward I was nominated for, the @IAFA_TW conference as a goh, & @ASU fellowship. I'm now crowdfunding for a new visa & legal fees. Pls support & share. Thanks.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
10 months
@MHairkoh I think you missed the issue people had with it, which is that if a pregnant wife doesn't feed a man breakfast he will cheat on her with the first available woman that offers him a spoon of rice. Microwave & fridge doesn't change that. If you don't see anything wrong with that...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
I'm a finalist for the Nebula award, with my @Asimovs_SF short story, Destiny Delayed. 🥰🥳 You can get it here Also a good time to mention it's eligible for the Hugo, WFA, etc. You can see my full eligibility list & other works at
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
So I saw the #HugoAwards votes breakdown, and it's really interesting. It turns out I came second. Very not bad for a self published, reprint anthology. 🙂 …
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
I'll be the 1st writer on the continent to win this 🥰 & the 2nd time in a row a Nigerian is winning, both of us the only Africans to have. Congrats to the honours listed writers, esp @RB_Lemberg & Isabel Fall, powerful writers. Thanks to the Motherboard for the amazing honour 💙
@OtherwiseAward
Otherwise Award
3 years
We’re delighted to announce that Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki has won the 2020 Otherwise Award for his stunning novella “Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon”! Congratulations @Penprince_ ! Read the full announcement:
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
I'll be the 1st BIPOC to get that honour, the 1st non-American, and the only person to, this year. If I win both, I'll be the 1st & only person in the genre's history to. Cuz of this I said to try to attend WorldCon. Be there when I possibly make history, again. But naaa
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
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So I'm a finalist in the British Fantasy award, with the Africa Risen anthology I co-edited. 🤩🥰 This will be my 3rd consecutive year being a finalist, & 4th nomination since being the 1st African editor to win with Dominion, in 2021.
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@BritFantasySoc
British Fantasy Society
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We are delighted to announce the shortlists for this year’s British Fantasy Awards! Many congratulations to all of the nominees!
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
This is despite being quite literally the most awarded SF writer, editor and publisher on the continent. I was a finalist in the @TheHugoAwards this year in editing & fiction categories. You don't have to be CIA to know why this is important. Simple Google search
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
& on Sunday I might be the 1st Black person to win the Hugo, best editor sf award, the 1st African to win for best novelette or the 1st person ever to win in both categories, in the same year. & If it's neither, it'll still be the most amazing time & a great win being there
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
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This is an oversimplification of what happened but yea. Thanks to everyone who clamoured, reached out and was worried 🙏🏾. Like I said, more soon.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
So he says there's no point paying a ransom. He's practically a dead man from when he's kidnapped. But when it happens, we still pay. They call and make him talk to us too, he tells us to pay. Same person who said dont pay. Point is, this isn't a sense thing.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
I don't want to hide. I want to be seen. Stars don't hide, they shine. & this is a whole Nebula.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
I'll be the first (and only) African born, Black writer to be nominated for the Nebula award. And this, twice, back to back, in 2 different categories now. 🥲
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
I'll be the 1st African writer to be a Nebula finalist with a novelette & my climate fiction story O2 Arena, the 1st novelette by an African writer to be finalist. Its also a @BSFA finalist, @Hugo_Book_Club , @NOAFzine recommended, & eligible for the Hugo
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
4 years
Look at this. I'm a Nebula award finalist with my novella Ife-Iyoku, Tale of Imadeyunuagbon in the Dominion anthology. Alongside these other amazing authors. And peep my cool graphic design by the also amazing finalist @jifueko 😊🎉
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
I'm happy to launch the Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award for Disability In Speculative Fiction. It's set up to well, reward disability in speculative fiction as the name implies. This it will do, by awarding two writers yearly, in two categories for works of up to 25,000 words
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2 years
Announcing the Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award For Disability In Speculative Fiction
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
@NickiTimes @BaeG0d_47 From someone subscribed to Twitter blue?
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
4 years
The Nigerians making noise about Bobi Wine but are okay with Sowore being in jail though. Cuz a lot of these cats will laugh and tell you Sowore wasn't smart & overdid it. 🙄 Ya'll don't believe in the struggle. You only like when it looks good or when the person is winning.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
Are the people who are paid to think, who it's their job to think. If those ones have failed to, then anything anyone else is doing is fair.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
The Africa Risen anthology cover relealed! 🤩🤩 It's out now on pre-order. Follow the link below to get it. Cover art by Manzi Jackson
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@tordotcom
Tor.com (Now at @Reactormag)
3 years
We’re thrilled to share the cover of AFRICA RISEN, a collection of African and African Diaspora SFF edited by @blackpotmojo @Penprince_ and @AuthorZKnight — arriving on November 8th from @TorDotComPub
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
1 year
That's how I got 3 Nebula award nominations in 3 years, consecutively. In 3 fiction categories, novella, novelette and short story. 🙂 And now...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Platonic relationships are my new obsession in stories. Hot platonic relationships with hot, non sexual love which is intense nontheless and beautiful, complex and the parties will do anything for each other.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Can't believe the Wachowski sisters made Matrix then still went ahead & gave us Sense8. & people still talk about they were great but didn't do it often enough. Often enough? The single one of those two works is enough for the world forever. The both of them, we'll never deserve
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
People saying the adverse, long term effects of paying ransoms. B4 my dad was kidnapped, he saw it coming. Told us if he was ever kidnapped, not to donate because it's be pointless. He was sick, so wouldn't survive the treatment esp without his meds he needed daily.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
And it's been quite the ride. 2nd Visa interview invite on Friday, interview itself on Monday, Visa on Tuesday, Travel on Wednesday, event on Thursday, till the end of the week. So I guess, still keep an eye out for me. My schedule....
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
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@da_shoemaker You sabi na. You dey. People will come and tell you in Jonathan's regime, things were good then. For Warri & East them dey kidnap hawkers and groundnut sellers that year.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Turns out the Hugo finalist pin is very useful for removing sim cards from mobile devices. So neat and thoughtful. Like I'm thinking thank God I was a Hugo finalist cuz how ever would I have gotten my sim out of my phone if not. 😄
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
4 years
Just cuz you're fully vaccinated doesn't mean you shouldn't properly draw your protective circle and make sure it's ringed with salt before you summon a demon or other denizen of hell to help torment your enemies and snatch their souls after.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
4 years
@callmefafy_ @madsarv @zellieimani Why do the beautiful black girls in a fine picture look "creepy?" Do you look creepy when you take a fine picture? 🙄
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
They invented Google right? Why not use it? Or better yet, just read, since I even brought everything to you. If you don't want to do the barest minimum & crosscheck. Something that's only happened for 5 people in the profession's history. The last time, in 2001, 21 years ago.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
9 months
I mean it wasn't rocket science. & He wasn't a prophet. They were kidnapping anybody, even okada riders & tomato sellers. Much less someone with a car. My uncle has been kidnapped 4 times. My ex, another uncle & like a dozen people I know. It's bound to happen
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
I'm on a @locusmag cover. 🥰
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Locus Magazine
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Issue 731 Table of Contents, December 2021
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
@tunnie__ @ImohUmoren @valerian247 Dudes will try to dodge accountability and get away with everything without even bothering to come up with reasonable excuses. It's all because "I am a man". Na the testosterone dey make us forget 😩. It's the lazy excuses for me.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
8 months
Just signed my second book contract for the year. 🙂
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Apparently that's not enough reasons to get visa to attend the WorldCon. If I had been considered & denied I wouldn't even have worried as much. But I don't feel I was even considered at all. It didn't look like. Despite all I did (seperate from being ultra excellent at what I do
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
While fireworks were going out they were busy getting in one last evil for the year, to steal my royalties, over $2000 last I checked. Preorders & sales for 3 months. Proceeds for all the work, hype, all gone. For these stupid, inexplicable, senseless reasons...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Just hit 8k followers. Also, I got balloons. 🥰
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Signed a contract. Things are coming soon. 🙂
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Been quite the year. I wrote & published fiction & nonfiction, sold stories, original & reprint. To venues like Asimov & Tor. Won awards, wrote & gave speeches, edited & published books & mags, started presses, organized cons & awards. Think I'll do an eligibility list/post 🙂
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
The first Africa Risen review is out. And like that I have my first starred review too, and from @PublishersWkly ! Congrats to us all, the editors, the amazing authors on this and entire publishing team. 🥰✨⭐🧡 @tordotcom @TorDotComPub
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
I've always believed we are stronger than the systems that shackle and keep us down, if we only rise above the things that divide us. I wished that we did that more, like we did this time & this writer, editor & publisher can travel the nebula on a rocket. 🌌🚀👨🏾‍🚀
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Balloons 🥰. Yayy, it's my birthday. If you're inclined to give me a present, simply read my works & engage with em. Short story Destiny Delayed Bridging Worlds anthology The essay, Too Dystopian For Whom...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
So these came in from the @sfwa , my finalist certificates for the Nebula award. 2 years in a row, two different presidents. 🙂
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
In no particular order Won the Nebula and World Fantasy awards, the first African to, in the categories I won. Was a multiple Hugo award finalist for Novelette & best editor sf, the 1st African to be shortlisted in the editor categories, and the novelette category as well...
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Diji The Great.
2 years
~ What’s the highlight of 2022 for you? Biggest win in 2022? Share them 👇🏼🤔
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Smells of classism to me. Student paying international fees, money. Prior/Family abroad, pedigree and or money. A very particular kind of money. If you make it yourself, naaa. Family kind, yes. If not, convo ends.
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
2 years
Help support my fundraiser to attend @chicagoworldcon I'm a 1st time, multi Hugo finalist with my Nebula winning novelette O2 Arena & Best editor SF with the Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, free here
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
We never seriously talk about the possibly permanent psychological effects of rejections. We mostly laugh about it. It's silly, temporary, unavoidable, necessary pain, like an injection. But sometimes it can be a mortal wound. Something dies in you everytime you're rejected...
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
"Your membership upgrade application has been reviewed and approved. Congratulations on your sales and welcome to Full @sfwa membership!" 🙂 upgraded to full membership 3 years after my 1st pro sale. Was doing one a year, except last year editing Dominion. Slow & steady...🐢
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
I'll be the 1st African writer to be a Nebula finalist with a novelette & my climate fiction story O2 Arena, the 1st novelette by an African writer to be finalist. Its also a @BSFA finalist, @Hugo_Book_Club , @NOAFzine recommended, & eligible for the Hugo
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@Penprince_
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Happy Val's & #BlackHistoryMonth I have giveaways & (final) updates to the Amazon KDP fiasco. 1stly, the Year's Best African Spec Fic anthology is now free in all formats & my (already free) climate fiction novelette O2 Arena 🙂
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
It's my birthday, & I have updates, & giveaways 🌝 - the YBASF anthology, now free for Kindle users at the former @AmazonKDP link on @JembefolaPress website That & my climate fiction novelette O2 Arena. Tho that was already free 🌝
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
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At least by the end of today I'll be a Nebula winner or loser. Both of which were beyond the scope of my ambitions as a literary enthusiast, growing up dreaming of being a writer. Wasn't even amongst my unrealistically dreams. Here's to achieving our not-dreams, Nigeria asides 🥂
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Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
3 years
Whoah. I made the Hugo awards longlist for best editor short form with my first anthology, Dominion.
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