ABOUT US
“The ASFS will provide a place where writers, readers, and scholars can come together to find information, connect with each other, and act as watchdogs for their collective interests.”
Chinelo Onwualu, co-founder of OMENANA
The African Speculative Fiction Society is an informal organization of African
Writers
Editors
Comic and graphic artists
Filmmakers
in the fields of speculative fiction such as fantasy, science fiction, stories that draw on traditions, horror and philosophical fiction.
Members nominate any published work for one of the four Nommo Awards. They are given free access to some of the nominated works. And they vote for the winners of the Nommo awards.
There is no membership fee.
Check out Eligibility to Become a Member
Become a member through our online application form.
Email us at info@africansfs.com
“The ASFS will create a space for African speculative fiction writers to network, organize, learn from each other, and debate. It will promote an ongoing conversation, led by artists, on Africa's literatures of the imagination."
Sofia Samatar, author of A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories
What is Speculative Fiction:
Speculative Fiction: includes Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the broadest possible definition of speculative/fantastical fiction including horror, slipstream, interstitial, stories based on traditional beliefs, alternate history etc. Speculative Fiction is an inclusive rather than exclusive term designed to include most especially any distinctively African forms that may develop.
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