The British Science Fiction Association has announced the longlist of nominees for the BSFA Awards, for work published in 2024. Like last year, this longlist includes 34 works by African authors and artists!

The BSFA Awards have been presented annually since 1970. The awards are voted on by members of the British Science Fiction Association and by the members of the year’s Eastercon, the national science fiction convention, held since 1955. Voting is open to all BSFA members, who can select up to four works per category. Voting will close on February 28.

The winners of BFSA Awards will be announced at this year’s Eastercon, Reconnect, held in Belfast April 18-21, 2025.

Check out the African longlisted titles below!

Best Artwork

Cover by Stephen Embleton for Waypoint Seven, Xan van Rooyen

Cover by Akintoba Kalejaye for Songs for the Shadows, Cheryl S. Ntumy

Cover by Manzi Jackson for Unquiet on the Eastern Front, Wole Talabi

Best Collection

Convergence Problems, Wole Talabi (Astra Publishing/DAW Press)

A Place Between Waking and Forgetting, Eugen Bacon (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Egypt + 100, Ahmed Naji (Comma Press)

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2023), Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Chinaza Eziaghighala (CAEZIK SF & Fantasy)

Best Nonfiction

Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction, Eugen Bacon (Bloomsbury)

Best Novel

Dakini Ato, Nikhil Singh (Luna Press Publishing)

Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase (Afori Books)

The Legacy of Arniston House, T. L. Huchu (Pan Macmillan)

The Principle of Moments, Esme Jikiemi-Pearson (Gollancz)

Best Short Fiction

The Mystery of A Place Between Waking and Forgetting, Eugen Bacon (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

Unquiet on the Eastern Front, Wole Talabi (Subterranean Press)

“The Wayward Children of Asase Yaa”, Cheryl S. Ntumy (World Literature Today)

“All The Lost Places that Birthed Us”, Somto Ihezue (Frivolous Comma)

“Encore”, Wole Talabi in Deep Dream: Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art (MIT Press)

“Kizimbani“, Eugen Bacon & Clare Rhoden (Apex Magazine)

Best Short Nonfiction

“Motherland Dreaming: Notes On African Speculative Fiction From Past and Present“, Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld)

“Afrocentric Futurisms – The Case for an Inclusive Expression”, Suyi Okungbowa in Afro-Centred Futurisms in Speculative Fiction

“An Afrofuturistic Dystopia and the Afro-irreal”, Eugen Bacon in Afro-Centred Futurisms in Speculative Fiction

“The Power of African Spirituality in Africanfuturism”, Nuzo Onoh in Afro-Centred Futurisms in Speculative Fiction

“Black-Futurisms Vs. Systems of Domination”, Shingai Njeri Kagunda in Afro-Centred Futurisms in Speculative Fiction

“The Writer as an Agent of Change”, Eugen Bacon in Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Best Shorter Fiction

Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tor/Forge, Macmillan)

Songs for the Shadows, Cheryl S. Ntumy (Atthis Arts)

The Practice, The Horizon and the Chain, Sofia Samatar (Tor)

Chimera, Chinaza Eziaghigala (Nosetouch Press)

“Embers”, Wole Talabi in Convergence Problems (Astra Publishing)

“Hiraeth”, Muthi Nhlema in Mombera Rising

“Oral History of a Past, Obsolete and Forgotten”, Yasmin El Rashidi in Egypt +100 (Comma Press)

The Year of Return, Akotowaa Ivana Ofori (Android Press)

“We Who Will Not Die“, Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Psychopomp)

Best Fiction for Younger Readers

Immortal Dark, Tigest Girma (Hodder Children’s Books)

Congrats to the longlisted authors!