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The African Speculative Fiction Society has announced its short list for the 2021 speculative fiction awards in the following categories:

Fiction – the Ilube Nommo Award

• Akwaeke Emezi: The Death of Vivek Oji (Riverhead Books)
• Stephen Embleton: Soul Searching (Guardbridge Books)
• Nikhil Singh: Club Ded (Luna Press Publishing)

Short story

• Tiah Marie Beautement: The Bend of Water (Omenana, Issue 15, 30 August 2020)
• TL Huchu: Corialis (Fiyah, Issue 12, 2019)
• Innocent Chizaram Ilo: Rat and Finch are Friends (Strange Horizons, 2 March 2020)
• Tobi Ogundiran: The Goatkeeper’s Harvest (The Dark, September 2020)
• Tlotlo Tsamaase: Behind Our Irises (Africanfuturism Anthology, Brittle Paper, 16 October 2020)

Novella

• David A Atta: Guardians: The Awakening (Makere Books, an imprint of Masobe Books)
• Dilman Dila: A Fledgling Abiba (Guardbridge Books)
• Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki: Ife-Ikyoku: The Tale of Imadeyunuagbon (Dominion, Aurelia Leo)
• Tochi Onyebuchi: Riot Baby (Tor/Forge and Tordotcom)
• Tlotlo Tsamaase: The Silence of the Wilting Skin (Pink Narcissus Press)

Graphic novel

• Murewa Ayodele (writer) and Dotun Akande (artist): New Men (Collectible Comics)
• Mazuba Chimbeza (writer and artist): Titan (Black Hut Comics)
• Nana Akosua Hanson (writer) AnimaxFYB Studios (art): Moongirls (Ghana Drama Queens Collective)
• Anna Mbale (writer) and Mwiche Songolo (artist): Alex (Black Hut Comics)
• Quinto Collab (various): Meanwhile… (MaThoko’s Books, an imprint of GALA Queer Archive)
• Mwiche Songolo (writer and artist): Black Sheep (Black Hut Comics)

You can read more about the books and the authors here.

The African Speculative Fiction Society is made up of writers, editors, comic and graphic artists, and filmmakers in speculative fiction such as fantasy, science fiction, stories that draw on traditions, horror and philosophical fiction.