{"id":29114,"date":"2022-11-17T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=29114"},"modified":"2022-11-17T08:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T13:52:39","slug":"oghenechovwe-donald-ekpeki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/17\/oghenechovwe-donald-ekpeki\/","title":{"rendered":"Eavesdrop on Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki in Episode 185 of Eating the Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time to take your seat at the table for the penultimate culinary conversation I’ll share from the 80th World Science Fiction Convention, following my chats there with Wesley Chu<\/a>, Carol Tilley<\/a>, Eileen Gunn<\/a>, and Michael Swanwick<\/a>. Now I invite you to join me at the table with the multi-award winning writer and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ekpeki — who won the Best Novelette Nebula Award earlier this year for \u201cO2 Arena\u201d — was up for two Hugo Awards that weekend. Not only as a writer for \u201cO2 Arena\u201d again — but also in the category of Best Editor, Short Form. Plus earlier this month, he won a World Fantasy Award in the category of Best Anthology for The Year\u2019s Best African Speculative Fiction<\/em>. He has also won the Otherwise, Nommo and British Fantasy Awards, plus has been a finalist for the Locus, British Science Fiction Association, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, and This Is Horror awards. <\/p>\n

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His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Tordotcom<\/em>, Apex Magazine<\/em>, Strange Horizons<\/em>, Asimov\u2019s<\/em>, Galaxy\u2019s Edge<\/em>, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores<\/em>, and more. In addition to editing that first ever — and now award-winning — Year\u2019s Best African Speculative Fiction<\/em> anthology, he also co-edited the award-winning Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction From Africa and the African Diaspora<\/em>, as well as — most recently — the Africa Risen<\/em> anthology from Tordotcom, co-edited with Sheree Ren\u00e9e Thomas and Zelda Knight.<\/p>\n

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We discussed the reason “shocked” seemed an inadequate word to describe his feelings about winning a Nebula Award earlier this year, what he considered the true prize he won over his Worldcon weekend, how growing up next to a library changed his life, how writing fan fiction helped him get where he is today, the way reading the struggles of a certain character in a Patrick Rothfuss novel helped him deal with his own struggles, what caused him to say “the law cannot help you change the law,” when he decided his novella “Ife-Iyoku, Tale of Imadeyunuagbon” deserved to be a trilogy, the way he does his best work when backed into a corner, how it’s possible for three editors to edit an anthology, and much more.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s how you can join us — <\/p>\n

1) Subscribe at Apple Podcasts<\/a> — where I hope you’ll be tempted to sample a few of the 184 previous episodes.<\/p>\n

2) Use the RSS feed of http:\/\/eatingthefantastic.libsyn.com\/rss<\/a> on the device of your choice.<\/p>\n

3) Or simply use the embed below.<\/p>\n