Read these essential Afro-surrealist works by Toni Morrison, August Wilson, Nalo Hopkinson, and more.

2026 Locus Awards Winners locusmag.com/2026/05...

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The award for Best Short Non-fiction goes to: Eugen Bacon for Spec Fic and the Politics of Identity: Finding the Self in Other

The award for Best Shorter Fiction goes to… Tade Thompson for The Apologists

Look what I get to take home. Last night, DEATH OF THE AUTHOR won the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and THE SPACE CAT won for Best Illustrated and Art Book. My daughter Anyaugo was there with me 😊. What an amazing night. ✨

Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think x Ainehi Edoro

Oh and as part of prep for my forthcoming novel THE FIST OF MEMORY, I'm making a list of science fiction novels by BIPOC or non-Western authors that include either 1) First Contact or 2) a Big Dumb Object (BDO) or 3) A Hivemind. Really want to get as many as possible. All recommendations welcome!

Thank you to everyone who picked up a copy of THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS. It is the No. 1 Bestseller in Black and African American Horror at Amazon! @erewhonbooks.bsky.social @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social #thecurseofhestergardens #tamikathompson #Bestseller #HorrorSky #BookSky #BlackSky

It's pub day for Howard Ramsby's Writing Black Panther: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles! #comics #BlackSky www.bloomsbury.com/us/writing-b...

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 486 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 483 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Peeps! I have arisen from my social media slumber (again 😅) to come promote my new article with Fansplaining! Super excited for this to be out as it's been in the works for a while now. 5,000 words. African fandom deep dive. Language capital. Decolonialism. Let's go! 🚀

A Lever is a Complex Machine – Applied African Speculative Fiction appliedafricansf.com/a-lever-is-a...

“Guidelines for Dating an Alien Girl” by Anyadu Nnamdi talks about masquerades, space tech, New Yam festivals, alien girlfriends. It’s wild, playful African futurism asking: What does it mean to love the Other?

A Shadow in the Sun – Applied African Speculative Fiction

We are celebrating our One Year Anniversary with a real spine tingler from the amazing Chisom Umeh! @izom-chisom.bsky.social Our first true horror story, and the start of a new cycle of 12 stories with a new template cover design. #AfricanSFF #Africanjujuism #BookSky 💙📚 #HorrorSky

Yeelen (1987) An African fantasy adventure drenched in some of the most elemental and primordial imagery, capturing a sense of the mythical better than any film I've seen.

Today’s interview: Eugen Bacon! Where are you based? Melbourne Describe your work: Dark literary cross-genre Afro-surreal speculative fiction: Muntu, Sauúti Terrors, The Nga’phandileh Whisperer and Crimson in Quietus. Where we can find you: eugenbacon.com @EugenBacon, @genni.bsky.social

This looks like a really exciting creative project, please share with your networks? @keguro.blacksky.app @hararereview.com @genni.bsky.social @nnedi.bsky.social #SFF #Africanfuturism appliedafricansf.com/call-for-pro...

Unveiling the cover for THE FIST OF MEMORY: My New Sci-Fi Novel it’s finally here. The US cover for my forthcoming novel THE FIST OF MEMORY! Check it out!

Meet the Author: Chisom Umeh @izom-chisom.bsky.social, 'Fly, Flightless', ZamaShort #13, and read his essay! #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚 #HorrorSky #Africanjujuism

“The Real Deal” is an intriguing tale by @usedtobejimmy.bsky.social about a witch doctor dragged into a police operation and compelled to demonstrate his 'powers' after a governor’s disappearance. 🔗 willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2017/04/04/t... #africansff

This looks super cool! #Africanfuturism! Their kickstarter is in the link. Just sent my contribution, too. 🐊 brittlepaper.com/2025/11/supp...

FUTILITY by @nuzo.bsky.social is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the ‘Queen of African Horror’.🩸 Have you picked up your copy yet? https://tinyurl.com/2re64uh6

Cursed Daughters x Oyinkan Braithwaite hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/c...

On My Blog: A New Novel Announcement, Shigidi Paperback Out Now In North America And A Visit To Stefen's Book Club. wtalabi.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

Alright y'all. This is finally happening.

Wait. What! OMG! 🙏🏾🙏🏾 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, @nuzo.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @xanwriter.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @shingai-be-like.bsky.social, @dilmandila.com.web.brid.gy

“Binti” is Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor’s first story set in space. Okorafor explores Africanfuturism, a subcategory of science fiction rooted in African culture, history, and mythology. #WomenofAfrofuturism

My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...

South African folklore: www.getaway.co.za/travel/trave... #folklore #folkloring #southafrica #capetown #myth

When we read Children of Blood and Bone we were surprised (not really) by the fact that we’re exposed to so little African folklore in America, even though it’s our ancestry and culture. #blackbooksy #booksky nerdyromanticspodcast.com/children-of-...

Hi everyone! Voting for the 2025 Nommo Awards is open, and Bodies of Sand and Blood, published in @castofwonders.org, is nominated in the short story category. If you're in the African Speculative Fiction Society (ASFS), kindly consider my work for your vote 🙏🏾 www.castofwonders.org/2024/04/cast...

ICYMI: Our October newsletter is out! Catch up on highlights from Worldcon 2025, this year’s Nommo Awards shortlist (featuring one of our own!), the Baltimore Book Festival, a Strange Horizons review, and much more. Read it here:

#CovenantTLC: African folklore pedagogy combined with a life grounded in the sacraments may provide a path to #truth and virtue in #education.

Book deal announcement 🙂🥳. My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor. It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFuturesMonth

🎃Happy Halloween and Publish Day of the ZamaShort Halloween Special: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights prequel story) Now Out! Bwahahaha!🎃 More in the thread ---⬇ #darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

And the winner is Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi, accepted on her behalf

And the winner is… ROGBA PAYNE for The Dance of Shadows. Rogba’s award was accepted on his behalf.

**Beta Readers Wanted!** I’m searching for beta readers to take an early look at my upcoming dark fantasy. Lota and the Secret Order of Juju Mythics.

A small telepathic alien with a large head and eyes crash-lands in rural Africa, appearing, vanishing, then reappearing in the long grass of the bush in front of two boys. #ufosky

In “Nonchalant,” Cheryl S. Ntumy builds a dystopian world through the intimate lens of a medicated woman and her detached partner, exposing what happens when society won’t let people be themselves. 🔗 willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2020/04/09/n...

It's my absolute pleasure of be moderating for the launch of the frightfully devourable Futility, the latest novel from @nuzo.bsky.social Queen of African Horror, and @titanbooks.bsky.social. Reserve your place before all the tickets go! #books #horror www.eventbrite.com/e/futility-b...

Great Science fiction novels/comics by black authors? https://www.booksns.com/171451/ I wanna support more black artists/writers, & Black Science fiction (alongside AfroFuturism & AfricanFuturism) as from what I read about in Sci-fi Subgenres has taken my interest for what’s out there that I …

It looks epic. I'm on a real Afrofuturism/Africanfuturism kick too at the moment (which I think this looks like it is). However... we suck at selling comics and graphic novels. I wish we didn't, but we've also had 3 copies of Anticucho for over a year now. beyondcataclysm.co.uk/product/anticucho/