African Speculative Fiction Society is a community of writers, editors, publishers & artists of African Science Fiction & Fantasy & the home of the Nommo Awards
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2026 NOMMO AWARDS SHORTLIST
This year's shortlist features 17 works across four categories, with 22 authors and creators represented - a testament to the creative range and format fluency that defines African speculative fiction today.
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The day is finally upon us!
THE FIST OF MEMORY is officially out NOW in the US and Canada. This near-future story of assassins, aliens, astrophysicists and ancestors that I started 15 years ago is finally out in the world & it still feels a bit unreal.
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Excited to share that my short story ‘A Heap of Petrified Gods’ originally published in @LightspeedMag is on the 2026 Nommo Award Shortlist for Best Story! Grateful to everyone who voted and @JohnJosephAdams who gave this story a home in the first place!
2026 NOMMO AWARDS SHORTLIST
This year's shortlist features 17 works across four categories, with 22 authors and creators represented - a testament to the creative range and format fluency that defines African speculative fiction today.
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African Speculative Fiction Society Announces Nommo Awards 2026 Shortlists
#LiteraryAwards #Fiction #AfricanSpeculativeFiction @africansfs
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I’m very pleased to share that Apostasy in Fruit, published in Issue 120 of @thedarkmagazine, has been shortlisted for the 2026 Nommo Awards ✨
So thankful to my fellow ASFS members for nominating this story, and to The Dark for giving it a home!
2026 NOMMO AWARDS SHORTLIST
This year's shortlist features 17 works across four categories, with 22 authors and creators represented - a testament to the creative range and format fluency that defines African speculative fiction today.
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2026 NOMMO AWARDS SHORTLIST
This year's shortlist features 17 works across four categories, with 22 authors and creators represented - a testament to the creative range and format fluency that defines African speculative fiction today.
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Graphic Novel: part 2
• Writers John Uche, Cuisel Peach and Lord Blue, with artists Stone Othor, Francis Goodluck, Gabriel Onche and Jeremiah Abah, Worlds: A One-shot Anthology
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Applied African SF: Volume 1 is out now!
With many of the stories in this volume having been written by members of the ASFS, we are proud to be one of the key collaborators on this amazing project.
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The project is a collaboration between ourselves, @imperialcollege, the @universityofnrb, BSFA Vector and a growing network of writers, researchers, educators, and institutions.
It is available to share and download at bit.ly/AppliedAfricanSF.
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JOIN US AT @laworldcon!💫
@africansfs Presents – PANEL:
The Sauúti Collective: A New Model for Creative Worldbuilding
Virtual 1 (Online) 10:30 PDT (18:30 BST) with Cheryl S. Ntumy, @judeumeh, @spembleton (moderator), @WTalabi and @Xan_Writer
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What does it take to build a world together? What does it give you that building alone never could?
On Sat 27 June 2026, three members of the Sauúti Collective – Cheryl Ntumy, J. Umeh and Stephen Embleton – joined the @africansfs for a conversation.
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What does it take to build a world together - and what does it give you that building alone never could?
Three members of @sauutiverse: J. Umeh, Cheryl Ntumy, and Stephen Embleton will join ASFS for a conversation...
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From 3 years of worldbuilding groundwork, to a story bible that grows with every new voice… to a magic system built on sound and orality… to the hard, generative work of making space for African writers to shape their own destinies rather than waiting for someone else to do it.
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