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His short story “The Future Ancients”, published in our first magazine issue is nominated for the 2025 #nommoawards!
ASFS members, kindly consider voting for this trippy sci-fi adventure in the Short Story category. We’d be so grateful!
🔗 Read it here: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2024/11/05/t...
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The #nommoawards shortlist highlights remarkable voices in African speculative fiction across four different categories.
Roots that Abide by Fatima Abdullahi
Yani was six years old the first time he heard a house talk. Perhaps it had happened earlier, before he learned to push words out of his mouth, but that was the first he could really remember. He'd climbed out the window to slip his legs through the balcony's rusted railings while his mother aggressively cleaned the apartment when a hoarse voice said wearily, Do you think she could be more careful? My floors aren't what they used to be. He'd stood suddenly, limbs jerking in surprise, & his mother-just days from escaping his father's cruel fists-had jumped a foot in the air, clutching the broom in her hand. He eyed the run-down building. "Mama, the house wants you to be more gentle." "Oh," his mother said, blinking "Alright." And tell her it's alright to hurt, the house said gently, at the disregard of those who should care. She doesn't have to keep the pain in anymore. She's free. Yani relayed the message, & watched his mother shudder & sink to the floor, her face buried in her hands.
For my first eligibility season, I would be grateful if #ASFS members would consider my story, "Roots that Abide", for nomination in the short story category of the 2025 #NommoAwards
It was published in @augursociety.bsky.social
You can read it here: augursociety.org/roots-that-a...
Thank you!
The Nommo Awards 2024 will be starting soon! Join us today at 5.30pm in the Lomond Auditorium to celebrate best in African speculative fiction!!
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I’m grateful to have both “Bones & Runes” (novel) and “Undulation” (novella) as finalists in the African Speculative Fiction Society’s 2024 Nommo Awards.
“Bones & Runes” — Abibiman Publishing 2022
“Undulation” — Mothersound: the Sauútiverse anthology, Android Press 2023
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Two stories from our MOTHERSOUND Anthology edited by @wtalabi.bsky.social are finalists in their respective categories in the 2024 Nommo Awards:
• Novella: “Undulation” by @stephenembleton.bsky.social
• Short Story: “The Way of Baa'gh” by Cheryl S. Ntumy
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