Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

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Happy new month, happy Black history month and Black Futures month. May it bring us amazing things. 🥳🎉🎊🎈

What’s the post controversy, post clamor take, the legacy of Isabel Fall’s Helicopter Story? What do people think and feel about that work now that the smoke has cleared? Anybody here have a take? Like to know these things about stories generally, after the noise but esp about this particular work

Not A New Year Resolution I saw on Twitter, people talking about this guy’s case, and how hard this is to experience, how it must break his mind and crush his spirit.

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My birthday

Today is the birthday of Dolly Parton and two of your favorite writers, Edgar Allan Poe and me ☺️. Also, it’s Martin Luther King Jr day🥳🎊🎉🎈

Considering they bombed Nigeria recently, is there someone I have to give my Nebula or World Fantasy award plaque to? 🤔

Sheila is an amazing friend and editor. Asides giving me the chance to make Black history when she bought my story, she also came all the way to meet me in New York, hosted me to an amazing dinner. Wishing her swift healing and recovery, and sending strength and love to her and her family. 🙏🏾💙

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Not A New Year Resolution I saw on Twitter, people talking about this guy’s case, and how hard this is to experience, how it must break his mind and crush his spirit. With it happening to this particular guy several times. …

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Marked safe from the events in my forthcoming debut novel, for now

My Debut Afropantheology Novel Birth of Orisha on SFWP Award Shortlist My forthcoming, debut Afropantheology novel Birth of Orisha made the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary award shortlist. It earlier made the longlist two weeks ago, alongside the works of two other …

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Oghenechovwe Ekpeki Makes The 2025 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Shortlist - JAY Lit Nigerian writer Oghenechovwe Ekpeki has been shortlisted for the 2025 Santa Fe Writers Project (SFWP) Literary Awards for his novel, Birth of Orisha. An award-winning Nigerian speculative fiction auth...

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Made this. 🥰

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SFWP shortlist

My soon to be released Afropantheology, debut novel Birth of Orisha made the @sfwp.bsky.social literary award shortlist, out of 1700 entries. Made the long list two weeks ago. 🥳🥰
You can see the full shortlist in the next tweet below…

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The existence of Asimov implies the existence of Asidontmov and Asistay.

Congrats to the Finalists of the 2025 Literary Awards Program pt 1: Allison Landa, Mary Pacifico Curtis, @writercasslewis.bsky.social, @sudhab.bsky.social, Katja Bartholmess, Paul Haney, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Miriam Glassman, Oghenechovwe Ekpeki, Thomas Calder, & Alison Gadsby! buff.ly/W9BV5sP

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SFWP longlist

SFWP longlist

Just found out my debut novel Birth of Orisha, which I just sold is nominated for the Santa Fe Writers Project 2025 literary awards. It made the longlist out of 1700 entries. 🙂Not even published yet, already getting awards. 🥳
You can see the full nominees list at the link below…

Arc Manor Acquires Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s “Birth of Orisha” - JAY Lit Nigerian writer Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Afropantheology novel, Birth of Orisha, has been acquired by Caezik Books, an imprint of Arc Manor, with editing by Lezli Robyn. The deal places Ekpeki’s f...

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