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Tobi Ogundiran
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Ignyte, British Fantasy award-winning author of GUARDIAN OF THE GODS duology (Tor) • JACKAL, JACKAL (Undertow) • BSFA, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy award nominee• Rep: Alex Cochran
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Tobi Ogundiran @tobiogundiran.com · Oct 30
Hello new followers. I’m Tobi, author of the British Fantasy Award winning collection of dark fables JACKAL, JACKAL and the fantasy novella (first in a duology) IN THE SHADOW OF THE FALL
Copies of Tobi Ogundiran’s Jackal, Jackal on a bookshelf, with the Shirley Jackson Award nominee token Copies of Tobi Ogundiran’s In the Shadow of the Fall on display in a bookstore
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We are SO thrilled to see that IN THE SHADOW OF THE FALL by @tobiogundiran.com has been nominated for Best Novella at this year's Nommo Awards! 🎉💙

Discover more here: bit.ly/3HDk6z9
September 2, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Le Guin, as always, with the truth bombs
leguinbot.bsky.social Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · Aug 25
Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.
August 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🔥 YA EN PREVENTA 🔥 «La fuente de la creación» de Tobi Ogundiran el esperado desenlace de la bilogía de la Guardiana de los Dioses.

💀 Pura fantasía épica que no podrás soltar con una ambientación inolvidable y muchos giros inesperados.

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July 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Fucking awesome!
hgomezherrero.bsky.social Héctor @hgomezherrero.bsky.social · Jul 23
Cositas bonitas de @duermevelaed.bsky.social que me llegan justo antes del puente (y justo cuando quiero algunas lecturas cortitas entre tanto libro enorme que llevo últimamente).
July 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Epic panel!
cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social · Jun 8
Last day of Phoenix Fan Fusion! Thank you everyone!! A great last day panel — When Authors and Their Characters Disagree with Tobi Ogundiran, Heather Fawcett and John Scalzi!
Last day of Phoenix Fan Fusion! Thank you everyone!! A great last day panel — When Authors and Their Characters Disagree with Tobi Ogundiran, Heather Fawcett and John Scalzi!
June 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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📕Tobi Ogundiran, autor de LA FUENTE DE LA CREACIÓN, publicado por @duermevelaed.bsky.social, explica el origen de la duología que cierra esta novela

Por cierto: las ilustraciones de las portadas son de @marimbavidal.bsky.social y la traducción de Rebeca Cardeñoso

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LIBRISIMO #14 Clip 1 Tobi Ogundiran y el origen de su duología #ficción #podcast #fantasia
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May 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Looking forward to Phoenix Fan Fusion (June 6-7). If there are any folks I know here in Phoenix. Hit me up. I’d love to connect.
May 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Only a couple of days left in Locus’ fundraiser. I’ll name a character after you if you donate!
locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · May 23
#FundraiserPerk Here is your chance to be immortalized in story. Tobi Ogundiran will name a character after you. Don't miss this unique way to support Locus. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio!
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May 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Check out this reading of "Midnight in Moscow" from the collection Jackal, Jackal by the author, Tobi Ogundiran! Also - BE IMMORTAL!! Let Tobi tuckerize you into a story!

On our Indiegogo page for a limited time!

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May 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Not just a throwaway character too. You might be delightfully despicable, or despicably good…
locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · May 19
#FundraiserPerk Here is your chance to be immortalized in story. Tobi Ogundiran will name a character after you. Don't miss this unique way to support Locus. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio!
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May 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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#FundraiserPerk Here is your chance to be immortalized in story. Tobi Ogundiran will name a character after you. Don't miss this unique way to support Locus. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio!
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May 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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In 2021 a little story I wrote (“Isn’t Your Daughter Such a Doll”) was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson awards and I got a little finalist pebble all the way in Nigeria. In the move to America I lost it…or thought I did. I asked my family to go through my old room with a fine toothed —

1/2
May 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Grab this chance to chat with me about writing, publishing and how to make art under capitalism
locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social · May 9
#FundraiserPerk : Grab a spot to chat with award-winning author Tobi Ogundiran about any of his books or the wonderful world of fiction. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 to claim this perk for yourself! @tobi_thedreamer
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May 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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#FundraiserPerk : Grab a spot to chat with award-winning author Tobi Ogundiran about any of his books or the wonderful world of fiction. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 to claim this perk for yourself! @tobi_thedreamer
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May 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Thank you, @reactorsff.bsky.social & especially thank you, @tobiogundiran.com, for such kind words!

We rely on support from the SFFH community to stay in print. Fan, creator, or bookish at heart, we have something for you.

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Our 2025 fundraiser: igg.me/at/locusmag2025
May 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Locus needs our help. As they kick off their fundraiser to continue supporting SFF news, reviews, and commentary, @tobiogundiran.com offers a personal essay on his own experience with reading Locus while removed from the English-language genre community:

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Locus Is the Heart of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Community - Reactor
Locus plays a vital role in connecting the SFF community — but they need your support.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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#FundraiserPerk : Want to level up your story? Award winning Tobi Ogundiran is happy to help! He'll critique up to 7500 words of prose in exchange for your donation to support Locus Magazine. Donate at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 or through our bio! @tobiogundiran.com
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May 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Get your short story critiqued by me when you donate to @locusmag.bsky.social fundraiser!
Follow the link to donate and check out other rewards

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May 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Drumroll, please! Our 2025 IndieGoGo fundraiser is now live!! You can check out the bounty of donation perks available at igg.me/at/locusmag2025 (link in bio)
We have so much to offer you guys for supporting us, with new rewards in rotation all month so keep an eye out!
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May 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I’m really going to fight for my next book to be illustrated
April 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I literally wrote a duology based on this
ruthannereid.bsky.social Ruthanne Reid (A.K.A. Trin) @ruthannereid.bsky.social · Apr 28
This is everything to me
A screenshot from Tumblr user omnybus, saying, I think what I love most about mythology is that the "Trickster God/Spirit" is an archetypical character found in almost every body of folklore. It's like "Oh, here's our God of the Sun, our God of the Sea, our God of Fertility, and our God of Being A Wretched Little Gremlin Who Causes Problems On Purpose".
April 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social today. 🙏🏾💞 @aniyonsenga.bsky.social, @dilmandila.com.web.brid.gy, @nuzo.bsky.social, @nerinedorman.bsky.social, @stephenembleton.bsky.social, @xanwriter.bsky.social, @suyidavies.com, @tobiogundiran.com, @bloomsburylit.bsky.social
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Sitting with the Grief | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jenna N. Hanchey explores the recent anthology “Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction,” edited by Eugen Bacon.
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April 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Sola is abiku. A restless spirit-child born & dying again & again. But she doesn't remember her millenia of existence as a spirit; she wants to stay with this family.

Peak #africanjujuism by @tobiogundiran.com in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Many Lives of an Abiku by Tobi Ogundiran
Sometimes the walls developed faces. One moment they were the uninspired blandness of old wood, coated with soot from the coal pot, and the next there was a face staring at me, bulging out of the wood...
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April 21, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Need to print this out and frame it near my desk
A meme of two cowboys in a standoff. One says "what's your budget?" and the other one says "what's your rate?"
March 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Voting for the locus award is still open
fiyahlitmag.bsky.social FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social · Mar 22
Best Novella:
In the Shadow of the Fall by @tobiogundiran.com Tobi Ogundiran who authored words in FIYAH #14, #24, and the Breathe FIYAH anthology with @tordotcom.bsky.social, and [REDACTED]
Novella here: torpublishinggroup.com/in-the-shado...
In the Shadow of the Fall
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March 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM