When She Speaks by Ugochi Agoawike in Augur Magazine, November 2021Ī Pall of Moondust by Nick Wood in Omenana, April 2021Ī Soul of Small Places by Mame Bougouma Diene and Woppa Diallo in Africa Risen, Tor.com, November 2022Ī Sunken Memory by Donovan Hall in Cyberfunk! Anthology, February 2021 How We Are by Chikodili Emelumadu in The Horror Anthology, Titan Books, Sept 2022 Please join us in congratulating the successful authors and poets for this volume:īroad Dutty Water: A Sunken Story by Nalo Hopkinson in Fantasy & SF, Nov/Dec 2021 We’re grateful to all authors, poets and editors for giving us a chance to read each story.

We received nearly 100 submissions, totalling over 400,000 words – naturally, we couldn’t take them all. This year, we also pay special attention to black speculative poetry and the power of the word, with sublime talent in the poignant space of black literature. This anthology series aims to draw attention to the works of Africans and people of African descent, to address visibility and other marginalizing barriers that exist for writers from Africa and the diaspora on the global stage. It will be published by a collaboration of Caezik Books of Arc Manor and OD Ekpeki Presents, an imprint of Jembefola Press It will contain poetry, and cover works from both the 20 years. This year’s volume is guest edited by two strong voices in the Black speculative fiction space, Eugen Bacon and Milton Davis. The Second Installment of the World Fantasy award winning, Locus, British Fantasy award nominated Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology series will be published in August 1, 2023, and you can pre-order it here.

We’re thrilled to announce the authors for the Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021-2022 anthology.

Masquerade Season by Pemi Aguda