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Africa Risen Receives NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Literary Work

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Published on January 19, 2023

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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.

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Molly Templeton

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Molly Templeton has been a bookseller, an alt-weekly editor, and assistant managing editor of Tor.com, among other things. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and spends as much time as possible in the woods.
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