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Featured: Brittle Paper 43 Short Stories New African Sci-fi/Fantasy

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  Thanks to Dr Ainehi Edoro and Brittle Paper for an excellent feature of African Science Fiction and Fantasy short stories, including my Sauúti novella "Undulation" ! 🙏🏼 ❤️ 43 Short Stories to Get You Caught Up on New African Sci-fi/Fantasy. “The list features established voices like Dilman Dila, NK Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Deji Bryce Olukotun, Tade Thompson, Stephen Embleton, and many who are relatively new on the scene like Tobi Ogundiran and Adam Oyebanjo.” Featuring 6 The Sauúti Collective stories, 5 in the Mothersound Anthology .  Adelehin Ijasan – “Xhova” Somto Ihezue and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki – “A City, A Desert and all their Dirges” Stephen Embleton – ‘Undulation” Tobias S Buckell – “The Groves Lament” J Umeh – “Kalabashing” Eugen Bacon – “Sina, The Child With No Echo” Find out more about the Sauútiverse and the Mothersound Anthology .

2024 Nommo Award Win! Best Novella

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2024 Nommo Award winner for Best Novella by an African , presented at Glasgow WorldCon, for his Sauúti novella, “Undualtion” , published by Android Press in “Mothersound: the Sauútiverse Anthology ”  (2023). The Nommo Awards was special! An awesome feeling being nominated but special winning, for Sauúti . Such a great event for us all in person! Meeting friends and colleagues 🙏🏼👏🏼❤️ It was amazing to receive the Nommo Novella Award from Nnedi Okorafor, one of the best novella writers out there, and writing African stories her way. The awesome Nnedi Okorafor Reading from "Undulation" With Wole Talabi and Tendai Huchu Love these guys! More featured on File 770 , Brittle Paper , and at Glasgow 2024 . And Brittle Paper's Glasgow Roundup .