The anthology Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight, has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction.
The Image Awards, first presented in 1967, honor outstanding performances across the arts, including film, television, literature, and music. The full list of this year’s nominees for Outstanding Literary Work—Fiction includes:
- The Keeper by Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, illustrated by Marco Finnegan
- You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
- Light Skin Gone to Waste by Toni Ann Johnson
- Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
- Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight
Africa Risen was published November 8th, 2022, by Tordotcom Publishing. The anthology was named a best book of the year by NPR and Book Riot. In a glowing review, Locus said, “I could not put the book down. It’s got everything in 32 stories by both famed and unknown writers, comprising 495 pages, deriving from the African continent and its diaspora. Africa Risen is simply a gorgeous anthology.”
You can read more about Africa Risen, including the full table of contents, here.
The 54th NAACP Image Awards will air at 8 pm EST Saturday, February 25th, on BET.
