Wole Talabi

Its SHIGIDI paperback release day in the US and Canada! Its been a long, lovely journey but my award-winning novel about African gods on a supernatural heist at the British museum finally hits stores in a new format, with a new cover + a bonus short story! Get it y'all🙏🏾

Meet with Hugo and Nebula nominated author and Locus book-reviewer Wole Talabi. You can ask about process, worldbuilding, Wole's world travels and more. Donate at twp.ai/E6HNbm or through our bio!

@Xan_Writer Oooo exciting!

@WTalabi We'll have new books coming out the same month 🥰🥳🥳

Hey y'all! The official book page for my forthcoming novel The Fist of Memory is up so you can pre-order it. Here: astrapublishinghouse.com/product/the-fi… or Here: amazon.co.uk/Fist-Memory-Wo… You can also just add it to your GR “Want to Read” list! goodreads.com/book/show/2441… 🙏🏾🚀📖🤖

Now you can hear our stories from a universe that has no written language and only operates on sound and oral traditions! It's the perfect format! 😍

"Blowout" by @WTalabi is shortlisted for Japan's 57th Seiun Award for Best Translated Short Story! The story is about a woman racing to save her brother from a deadly geological phenomenon. Translated by Masato Naruniwa. Winners announced June! 🚀 brittlepaper.com/2026/04/wole-t…

Sauúti Terrors, in all its auditory glory, is OUT NOW as an audiobook. 🔊💫 From @recordedbooks the terror is available wherever you get your audiobooks, with narrators Christel Mutombo and Kofi Boakye. 🔊💫 @EugenBacon @spembleton @ALA_speculative rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798…

Nnedi Okorafor (@Nnedi), Wole Talabi (@WTalabi), Somto Ihezue (@somto_Ihezue) Among The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (@sfwa)’s 2026 Nebula Awards Finalists jaylit.com/nnedi-okorafor…

Congrats to three African and diaspora writers who are Nebula Award finalists! @Nnedi Okorafor (DEATH OF THE AUTHOR), Wole @WTalabi (DESCENT), and @somto_Ihezue (WE BEGIN WHERE INFINITY ENDS) represent across Novel, Novella, and Novelette ✨🏆 brittlepaper.com/2026/03/okoraf…

#FundraiserPerk Talk to Wole Talabi for a 30-minute one-on-one video chat. Warm beverages and friendly chatter encouraged. Comes with the April e-issue of Locus and digital cover art. Donate at locusmag.com/igg26 or through our bio!

Hey y'all. If you havent already, preorder my forthcoming novel THE FIST OF MEMORY and get 25% off with code PREORDER25. Assassins. Aliens. Ancestors. This is a book I've been working on for close to 15 years and is something special. Cant wait for yall to read it. @dawbooks

The Hugo award nomination deadline approaches. If you're nominating, kindly consider my SF novella DESCENT about parental expectations and planetary exploration [Its a finalist for the Nebulas and BSFA + on the Locus Recommended List] Read/Listen here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/talabi_05_25/

Apologies to my Lisan Al-Gaib but opera is definitely still alive. Went to see La Traviata yesterday and while story was too dated for my sensibilities, the music and performances were great. There was also quite a decent turnout.

My novella DESCENT is a BSFA and Nebula Award finalist. And its in spectacular company too. I'm mostly just surprised at how far this @sauutiverse story has come. Thank you all for reading and supporting it. 🚀📖🌍

Well, when it rains it pours ehh? The japanese translation of my story "Blowout" was nominated for the Seiun award! file770.com/2026-seiun-awa… The story first appeared in @Analog_SF and is in my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS from @dawbooks

Nebula Awards 2026 Finalists Announced #LiteraryAwards #FIction #SpeculativeFiction writingafrica.com/nebula-awards-…

🚨Sweepstakes alert 🚨We’re giving four lucky winners a paperback copy of Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon over on our Instagram @dawbooks Ends 3/21/26 at 11:59 PM ET. US Only.

Congratulations to our very own @WTalabi for making the Nebula finals for his Sauútiverse novella, Descent! 💫🔥❤️

@Nnedi This is awesome. I'm sure it will be an excellent lecture and I hope I get the chance to discuss this topic with you one day - I've been pitching a mystical/mundane overlap panel to a few cons.

📢 I’ll be at Yale University giving a 3-lecture series on the origin, concept, and practice of Africanjujuism. I’ll discuss masquerades (mmụọ), Nsibidi, the role being Naijamerican played, and the overlap of the mystical and mundane.

We begin the month of March with Wole Talabi’s Convergence Problems. After such an electrifying first experience with his novel Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon, we expect nothing short of brilliance. Happy New Month, everyone!