DILMAN DILA (“Red_Bati”) is a Ugandan writer and filmmaker. He was long listed for the BBC Radio Playwriting Competition (2014), shortlisted for the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2013) and long listed for the Short Story Day Africa prize (2013). He was nominated for the 2008 Million Writers Awards for his short story, “Homecoming.” He first appeared in print in The Sunday Vision in 2001. His works have since featured in several literary magazines and anthologies. His most recent works are the novelette, “The Terminal Move,” and the romance novella, “Cranes Crest at Sunset.” His films include the masterpiece, What Happened in Room 13 (2007), and the narrative feature, The Felistas Fable (2013), which was nominated for Best First Feature at AMAA 2014. His first collection of short stories, A Killing in the Sun, will be out in September this year during the Storymoja Hayfestival. More of his life and works is available at his website www.dilmandila.com
About the Editor
OGHENECHOVWE DONALD EKPEKI is an African speculative fiction writer and editor from Nigeria. He won the Nommo Award for Best Short Story for an African in 2018, was longlisted for the 2019 Nommo award, and won the 2020 Horror Writers Association diversity grant. His novella Ife-Iyoku, Tale of Imadeyunuagbon is a finalist in the Nebula, Nommo, British Science Fiction Association, and Sturgeon Awards. The Dominion anthology where it is published, and which he co-edited, is a finalist in the This Is Horror, Locus, and British Fantasy Awards. His written works, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in TorDotCom, NBC, Strange Horizons, Uncanny Magazine, Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, Galaxy's Edge and others. He was a guest editor at Interstellar Flight Press, the founder of Jembefola Press, and editor of the first ever Year's Best African Speculative Fiction anthology. He's a member of the African Speculative Fiction Society, the Horror Writers Association, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
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