Naomi Eselojor
@naomieselojor.bsky.social
Nigerian 🇳🇬 living in 🇬🇧. Writer of speculative fiction| 2023 Utopian short story winner|Nommo Shortlisted writer| Milford sf 2024
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Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.
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Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.
Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.
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Want to explore Africanfuturism in your writing? 🌌
Join @naomieselojor.bsky.social as she leads a workshop on ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination.’
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 6.30pm
📍Online
🎟️£8 (concs available)- book via link in bio 🔗
Access available.
Join @naomieselojor.bsky.social as she leads a workshop on ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination.’
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 6.30pm
📍Online
🎟️£8 (concs available)- book via link in bio 🔗
Access available.
September 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Want to explore Africanfuturism in your writing? 🌌
Join @naomieselojor.bsky.social as she leads a workshop on ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination.’
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 6.30pm
📍Online
🎟️£8 (concs available)- book via link in bio 🔗
Access available.
Join @naomieselojor.bsky.social as she leads a workshop on ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination.’
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 6.30pm
📍Online
🎟️£8 (concs available)- book via link in bio 🔗
Access available.
I’ll be teaching a workshop guys! Please like and share. ❤️
Want to explore Africanfuturism in your writing? 🌌
Join @naomieselojor.bsky.social as she leads a workshop on ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination.’
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 6.30pm
📍Online
🎟️£8 (concs available)- book via link in bio 🔗
Access available.
Join @naomieselojor.bsky.social as she leads a workshop on ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination.’
🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 6.30pm
📍Online
🎟️£8 (concs available)- book via link in bio 🔗
Access available.
September 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I’ll be teaching a workshop guys! Please like and share. ❤️
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Later at 5:30-6:30 PM, @naomieselojor.bsky.social will moderate "SFF’s Role in Revolution on the African Continent".
With panellists @gabbyharry.bsky.social, @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, @africansffhype.bsky.social and Khaya Maseko.
#seattleworldcon2025
With panellists @gabbyharry.bsky.social, @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, @africansffhype.bsky.social and Khaya Maseko.
#seattleworldcon2025
August 16, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Later at 5:30-6:30 PM, @naomieselojor.bsky.social will moderate "SFF’s Role in Revolution on the African Continent".
With panellists @gabbyharry.bsky.social, @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, @africansffhype.bsky.social and Khaya Maseko.
#seattleworldcon2025
With panellists @gabbyharry.bsky.social, @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social, @africansffhype.bsky.social and Khaya Maseko.
#seattleworldcon2025
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Such a nice surprise to find my story "Full, Empty Houses" on this list! Thanks @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social !
Read the story at @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
Read the story at @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
June 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Such a nice surprise to find my story "Full, Empty Houses" on this list! Thanks @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social !
Read the story at @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
Read the story at @kaleidotrope.bsky.social
kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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A great evening chatting with @aijiang.bsky.social about her new novella A PALACE NEAR THE WIND at Waterstones Covent Garden. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social and everyone who came out to listen to us and have books signed!
May 29, 2025 at 10:47 PM
A great evening chatting with @aijiang.bsky.social about her new novella A PALACE NEAR THE WIND at Waterstones Covent Garden. Thanks to @titanbooks.bsky.social and everyone who came out to listen to us and have books signed!
Please grab a copy!
May 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Please grab a copy!
You guyssss! I spent the entire day with my fren today 😍🥹❤️ @aijiang.bsky.social
If you’re coming to water stones this evening to see Ai, please say hi. 👀
If you’re coming to water stones this evening to see Ai, please say hi. 👀
May 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
You guyssss! I spent the entire day with my fren today 😍🥹❤️ @aijiang.bsky.social
If you’re coming to water stones this evening to see Ai, please say hi. 👀
If you’re coming to water stones this evening to see Ai, please say hi. 👀
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Happy Mother’s Day! 💓
Fahi is abiku, destined to grieve his parents by being reborn over & over. But he is born to a sweet & caring woman, Toke, & finds he is unwilling to give up the love of a mother.
"My Mother’s Love" by @naomieselojor.bsky.social in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
hexagonmagazine.ca/issue-10-fal...
"My Mother’s Love" by @naomieselojor.bsky.social in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
hexagonmagazine.ca/issue-10-fal...
Issue 10 / Fall 2022
Hexagon Issue 10 / Fall 2022 – PDF Hexagon Issue 10 / Fall 2022 – EPUB Contents p. 5 How to Creatively Host Cheese Parties During and After the Apocalypse – Beth Cato p. 8 The En …
hexagonmagazine.ca
May 11, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Happy Mother’s Day! 💓
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing. This story is very dear to me🥹❤️
Fahi is abiku, destined to grieve his parents by being reborn over & over. But he is born to a sweet & caring woman, Toke, & finds he is unwilling to give up the love of a mother.
"My Mother’s Love" by @naomieselojor.bsky.social in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
hexagonmagazine.ca/issue-10-fal...
"My Mother’s Love" by @naomieselojor.bsky.social in @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social
hexagonmagazine.ca/issue-10-fal...
Issue 10 / Fall 2022
Hexagon Issue 10 / Fall 2022 – PDF Hexagon Issue 10 / Fall 2022 – EPUB Contents p. 5 How to Creatively Host Cheese Parties During and After the Apocalypse – Beth Cato p. 8 The En …
hexagonmagazine.ca
May 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Thanks so much for reading and reviewing. This story is very dear to me🥹❤️
Congratulations!!! @plangdineple.bsky.social
So proud of you ❤️❤️❤️
So proud of you ❤️❤️❤️
Please join us in congratulating our 2025 Six-Week Workshop students! They will be attending virtually from far and wide, across eight different time zones. Read more about where they're from and the summer format on our blog: www.clarionwest.org/2025/04/09/i...
April 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Congratulations!!! @plangdineple.bsky.social
So proud of you ❤️❤️❤️
So proud of you ❤️❤️❤️
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ICYMI: The African Book Festival this year is offering assistance to members of book clubs in Africa who wish to attend! The deadline is 31st March.
I’m still so deeply honored to be the festival curator this year. 🕸️ #ABF25
I’m still so deeply honored to be the festival curator this year. 🕸️ #ABF25
March 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
ICYMI: The African Book Festival this year is offering assistance to members of book clubs in Africa who wish to attend! The deadline is 31st March.
I’m still so deeply honored to be the festival curator this year. 🕸️ #ABF25
I’m still so deeply honored to be the festival curator this year. 🕸️ #ABF25
Thank you so much for reading and sharing 🙏
Dr. Tobias Williams, a billionaire scientist, has been working for 30 years on a serum to bring people back from the dead with...mixed results.
A heartbreaking story 💔 by @naomieselojor.bsky.social #africansff 🪐📚💙
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A heartbreaking story 💔 by @naomieselojor.bsky.social #africansff 🪐📚💙
darkmattermagazine.shop/blogs/issue-...
The Seventy-Year-Old Corpse Harvester
By Naomi Eselojor You’d never call yourself a revolutionist. You’d never play God. You didn’t need to. You were Tobias Williams, a brilliant billionaire doctor and research engineer who owned the only...
darkmattermagazine.shop
March 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Thank you so much for reading and sharing 🙏
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Honored and excited to be a recipient of the SAFTA Summer 2025 Residency Fellowship and Grant✨
The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is pleased to announce Somto Ihezue, Urvashi Bahuguna, Naomi Leung, and Tolu Daniel as the recipients of our Summer 2025 Residency Fellowships. Read more here! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/03...
March 12, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Honored and excited to be a recipient of the SAFTA Summer 2025 Residency Fellowship and Grant✨
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My very short story about a fleet of abandoned starships, Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun, is out now in Lightspeed @lightspeedmagazine.com
Read or listen! Thanks!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...
Read or listen! Thanks!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...
Those Who Seek to Embrace the Sun - Lightspeed Magazine
The humans crawl into us, carrying their instruments and consulting their manuals. Their hands run over us, searching for nuts and bolts and hidden crevices. We are big toys that they all long to play...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
My very short story about a fleet of abandoned starships, Those Who Seek To Embrace The Sun, is out now in Lightspeed @lightspeedmagazine.com
Read or listen! Thanks!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...
Read or listen! Thanks!
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/thos...
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"Bernardo's timely tale is an
affecting and thought-provoking science fictional allegory about the current state of humanity itself, and how dire straits lead us to extremes of both cruelty and compassion." — @victormanibo.com about my upcoming novella!
Preorders are open! 🚀💀💰💉
affecting and thought-provoking science fictional allegory about the current state of humanity itself, and how dire straits lead us to extremes of both cruelty and compassion." — @victormanibo.com about my upcoming novella!
Preorders are open! 🚀💀💰💉
DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE has a slightly updated cover now 👀
Preorders are already open for paperback and ebook with a release of April 29th! 🌌🚀
It's a dark space opera with revenge, moral ambiguous decisions, and fight for survival.
darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...
Preorders are already open for paperback and ebook with a release of April 29th! 🌌🚀
It's a dark space opera with revenge, moral ambiguous decisions, and fight for survival.
darkmattermagazine.shop/products/dis...
March 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
"Bernardo's timely tale is an
affecting and thought-provoking science fictional allegory about the current state of humanity itself, and how dire straits lead us to extremes of both cruelty and compassion." — @victormanibo.com about my upcoming novella!
Preorders are open! 🚀💀💰💉
affecting and thought-provoking science fictional allegory about the current state of humanity itself, and how dire straits lead us to extremes of both cruelty and compassion." — @victormanibo.com about my upcoming novella!
Preorders are open! 🚀💀💰💉
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Writers! Spread the word! Uncanny Magazine will be open for Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from March 24-28. www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
March 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Writers! Spread the word! Uncanny Magazine will be open for Flash Fiction submissions (750-1500 words) from March 24-28. www.uncannymagazine.com/submissions/
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Hey Worldconners, 5 days left to nominate for the Hugos. Nominate what you love y'all! As I finalize my own nominees, here's a reminder than I have a few things eligible, special shout out to my BSFA & Locus listed novelette "Encore", which has already been picked for a "best of the year" anthology.
March 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Hey Worldconners, 5 days left to nominate for the Hugos. Nominate what you love y'all! As I finalize my own nominees, here's a reminder than I have a few things eligible, special shout out to my BSFA & Locus listed novelette "Encore", which has already been picked for a "best of the year" anthology.
Y’all should read this. It’s one of the most beautiful stories I’ve ever read.
March 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Y’all should read this. It’s one of the most beautiful stories I’ve ever read.
Thank you so much. I’m glad you liked it ❤️❤️❤️
Enitan, a child from an unholy union, is spirited away by a servant to save her from the wrath of the gods and villagers.
But a great famine ravages the land as a result, & every debt must be paid...
@naomieselojor.bsky.social I held my breath throughout 🙌🏾 #africansff 🪐📚💙
lolwe.org/enitan/
But a great famine ravages the land as a result, & every debt must be paid...
@naomieselojor.bsky.social I held my breath throughout 🙌🏾 #africansff 🪐📚💙
lolwe.org/enitan/
Enitan - Naomi Eselojor | Lolwe
A short story by Naomi Eselojor
lolwe.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Thank you so much. I’m glad you liked it ❤️❤️❤️
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Incredibly excited to announce myself as the curator of the next African Book Festival in Berlin! Excited to shine a spotlight on Ghanaian authors & speculative fiction this year. Let’s go! 🇬🇭🚀🕷️ #ABF25
February 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Incredibly excited to announce myself as the curator of the next African Book Festival in Berlin! Excited to shine a spotlight on Ghanaian authors & speculative fiction this year. Let’s go! 🇬🇭🚀🕷️ #ABF25
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I know there is a lot going on but if you want to hear me read a scene from my novel SHIGIDI in which a nightmare god wakes up with a divine hangover, check it out. And then get the book, its pretty fun, I've been told. 😐
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February 8, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I know there is a lot going on but if you want to hear me read a scene from my novel SHIGIDI in which a nightmare god wakes up with a divine hangover, check it out. And then get the book, its pretty fun, I've been told. 😐
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/shig...
astrapublishinghouse.com/product/shig...
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You can now read our story, “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows,” in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. This story navigates, in many ways, the Fattening Room tradition.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into...
February 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
You can now read our story, “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows,” in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. This story navigates, in many ways, the Fattening Room tradition.
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into...