Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
@penprince.bsky.social
Hugo, NAACP Image Award finalist. Nebula, WFA, Locus, BFA, Otherwise award winner.
#ICFA44 GoH
Represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media & Vince Gerardis of Startling Inc.
He/They
#ICFA44 GoH
Represented by Mark Gottlieb of Trident Media & Vince Gerardis of Startling Inc.
He/They
I have a new story out, in the November issue of Lolwe. And it’s my first work there. It’s titled Oil and Water. Like the title indicates, it’s about the oil rich but impoverished Niger Delta region and its natural resource that’s inspired massacres, insurgencies and so much else.
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I have a new story out, in the November issue of Lolwe. And it’s my first work there. It’s titled Oil and Water. Like the title indicates, it’s about the oil rich but impoverished Niger Delta region and its natural resource that’s inspired massacres, insurgencies and so much else.
November 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Acceptance email. Submittable green. 🙂✅
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Acceptance email. Submittable green. 🙂✅
Added one more notch to my career bingo with the novel sale. 🙂
October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Added one more notch to my career bingo with the novel sale. 🙂
Though I started publishing there in 2021. Barely 4 years now. 🙂
Oh and I already have blurbs for myself and the debut novel, from some cool folks @tananarivedue.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @patcadigan.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @davidbrin.bsky.social
With more to come. 🙂
Oh and I already have blurbs for myself and the debut novel, from some cool folks @tananarivedue.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @patcadigan.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @davidbrin.bsky.social
With more to come. 🙂
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Though I started publishing there in 2021. Barely 4 years now. 🙂
Oh and I already have blurbs for myself and the debut novel, from some cool folks @tananarivedue.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @patcadigan.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @davidbrin.bsky.social
With more to come. 🙂
Oh and I already have blurbs for myself and the debut novel, from some cool folks @tananarivedue.bsky.social @pdjeliclark.bsky.social @patcadigan.bsky.social @aptshadow.bsky.social @davidbrin.bsky.social
With more to come. 🙂
Speaking of honours, the publisher made a list of award nominations the Arc Manor family had garnered. This incredible house with so many greats. And it turns out, if you add the 2025 BSFA longlist, I've contributed exactly 30% of their total award haul since inception
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Speaking of honours, the publisher made a list of award nominations the Arc Manor family had garnered. This incredible house with so many greats. And it turns out, if you add the 2025 BSFA longlist, I've contributed exactly 30% of their total award haul since inception
the only African and first Black editor alongside Sheree Renee Thomas to be nominated for the Hugo award best editor short form, and the first BIPOC, one of only five people to ever be nominated for the Hugo award editing and fiction categories, in the same year.
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
the only African and first Black editor alongside Sheree Renee Thomas to be nominated for the Hugo award best editor short form, and the first BIPOC, one of only five people to ever be nominated for the Hugo award editing and fiction categories, in the same year.
They published my novelette O2 Arena, which made me the first & only African born writer to have won the Nebula award, and my anthology the Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 which made me the first African editor to have won the World fantasy awards,
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
They published my novelette O2 Arena, which made me the first & only African born writer to have won the Nebula award, and my anthology the Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 which made me the first African editor to have won the World fantasy awards,
Book deal announcement 🙂🥳.
My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor.
It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackFuturesMonth
My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor.
It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackFuturesMonth
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Book deal announcement 🙂🥳.
My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor.
It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackFuturesMonth
My debut novel has been acquired by Caezik Books of Arc Manor.
It's titled Birth of Orisha, the first book in the trilogy, The Orisha Cycle. It's set in the far future where nuclear war has wiped out nearly all life in Africa
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackFuturesMonth
So I have agents. 🙂
I'm now represented for film/TV/media by Vince Gerardis of Starling Inc, the producer of Game of Thrones, House of Dragons, & the forthcoming Elden Ring movie. Also reps GRR Martin, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, the Heinlein, Silverberg, Asimov, Pratchet estates
I'm now represented for film/TV/media by Vince Gerardis of Starling Inc, the producer of Game of Thrones, House of Dragons, & the forthcoming Elden Ring movie. Also reps GRR Martin, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, the Heinlein, Silverberg, Asimov, Pratchet estates
September 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
So I have agents. 🙂
I'm now represented for film/TV/media by Vince Gerardis of Starling Inc, the producer of Game of Thrones, House of Dragons, & the forthcoming Elden Ring movie. Also reps GRR Martin, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, the Heinlein, Silverberg, Asimov, Pratchet estates
I'm now represented for film/TV/media by Vince Gerardis of Starling Inc, the producer of Game of Thrones, House of Dragons, & the forthcoming Elden Ring movie. Also reps GRR Martin, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, the Heinlein, Silverberg, Asimov, Pratchet estates
Spotted in Ebeano
@mazinwonwu.bsky.social
@mazinwonwu.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Spotted in Ebeano
@mazinwonwu.bsky.social
@mazinwonwu.bsky.social
Turns out I'm in the top 30 highest ranked SFF anthology editors of all time. With mostly small press & self published anthologies. All from, in this poverty capital of the world. In a mere 5 years
August 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Turns out I'm in the top 30 highest ranked SFF anthology editors of all time. With mostly small press & self published anthologies. All from, in this poverty capital of the world. In a mere 5 years
Turns out I've sold tens of thousands of books in the last couple years. Small press & self published, mostly. That's hundreds of thousands of dollars, like half a billion naira. Would make the top 10 highest grossing Nollywood directors list. & "Books don't sell". Anthologies too 💀
& from Nigeria.
& from Nigeria.
July 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Turns out I've sold tens of thousands of books in the last couple years. Small press & self published, mostly. That's hundreds of thousands of dollars, like half a billion naira. Would make the top 10 highest grossing Nollywood directors list. & "Books don't sell". Anthologies too 💀
& from Nigeria.
& from Nigeria.
I'll be in the @cnn.com Academy, Voices From The South: Storytelling For Impact program, sponsored by the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I'll be in the @cnn.com Academy, Voices From The South: Storytelling For Impact program, sponsored by the @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
So the Year's Best African Speculative Fiction volume 3 edited by I & Chinaza Eziaghighala is a British Fantasy award finalist for best anthology. Congrats to us and all the amazing folks that make up & contributed to making this amazing book, and thanks to all who supported it 🥰🤩🥳
June 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So the Year's Best African Speculative Fiction volume 3 edited by I & Chinaza Eziaghighala is a British Fantasy award finalist for best anthology. Congrats to us and all the amazing folks that make up & contributed to making this amazing book, and thanks to all who supported it 🥰🤩🥳
An African giant is gone. 😔
May he rest in power.
May he rest in power.
May 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
An African giant is gone. 😔
May he rest in power.
May he rest in power.
Had the opportunity to early read and blurb this amazing book by @ysolstar.bsky.social , on @chireviewpress.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Had the opportunity to early read and blurb this amazing book by @ysolstar.bsky.social , on @chireviewpress.bsky.social
I have a new essay out. The latest installment in my Dystopias series. About accessibility issues Nigerians face & possibilities in pidgin and creole languages. I also talk about new & coming projects of mine. Feel free to check it out & let us know your thoughts
brittlepaper.com/2025/03/betw...
brittlepaper.com/2025/03/betw...
March 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I have a new essay out. The latest installment in my Dystopias series. About accessibility issues Nigerians face & possibilities in pidgin and creole languages. I also talk about new & coming projects of mine. Feel free to check it out & let us know your thoughts
brittlepaper.com/2025/03/betw...
brittlepaper.com/2025/03/betw...
The 1st ever @locusmag.bsky.social award to be won by an African born person. Since 1971, a mere 54 years. 🤭
This just arrived, 2 years after I won. This, the 2nd one of these being sent almost got lost too. Had to go do a search & rescue. It's one thing to win, recieve the award & survive winning
This just arrived, 2 years after I won. This, the 2nd one of these being sent almost got lost too. Had to go do a search & rescue. It's one thing to win, recieve the award & survive winning
March 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The 1st ever @locusmag.bsky.social award to be won by an African born person. Since 1971, a mere 54 years. 🤭
This just arrived, 2 years after I won. This, the 2nd one of these being sent almost got lost too. Had to go do a search & rescue. It's one thing to win, recieve the award & survive winning
This just arrived, 2 years after I won. This, the 2nd one of these being sent almost got lost too. Had to go do a search & rescue. It's one thing to win, recieve the award & survive winning
So I can talk about this now. 2 of my works will be reprinted in the Nebula award showcase anthologies. O2 Arena the only novelette by an African to win the Nebula award will appear in showcase 57 & Destiny Delayed the only work by a Black person to win the Asimov's readers award will appear in 58 🥰
March 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
So I can talk about this now. 2 of my works will be reprinted in the Nebula award showcase anthologies. O2 Arena the only novelette by an African to win the Nebula award will appear in showcase 57 & Destiny Delayed the only work by a Black person to win the Asimov's readers award will appear in 58 🥰
The anthology is inspired by the work of Joshua Ichor, founder of Geotek, a fellow of the 776foundation by Alexis Ohanian.
Joshua is the 1st African to win the Swarovski creatives for our future award with exhibitions at the UN
Joshua is the 1st African to win the Swarovski creatives for our future award with exhibitions at the UN
March 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The anthology is inspired by the work of Joshua Ichor, founder of Geotek, a fellow of the 776foundation by Alexis Ohanian.
Joshua is the 1st African to win the Swarovski creatives for our future award with exhibitions at the UN
Joshua is the 1st African to win the Swarovski creatives for our future award with exhibitions at the UN