Zimbabwean writers Jacqueline Nyathi, Rutendo Chidzodzo and T. L. Huchu have been longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Awards. A platform established in 1970, celebrating the best contributions to the Science Fiction genre.
Rutendo Chidzodzo's 'Let Sleeping Hyenas Lie' is up for Best Short Fiction, while Jacqueline Nyathi is the running for Best Short Non Fiction for 'Collective Dreaming: The Schrodinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures' and T. L. Huchu's 'Secrets of the First School' is nominated under Best Fiction for Young Readers.
The BSFA will announce a shortlist ahead of Eastercon 2026 (Iridescence) in April, where winners will be revealed at the Hilton Lanyon Place and Birmingham Metropole. The awards are voted on by BSFA members and Eastercon attendees.
Rutendo Chidzodzo
Rutendo Chidzodzo is a Afrosurrealist writer with widespread roots. She is the recipient of the 2020 Ladies’ Literary Club Award, the Paul Engle Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, Ocean Vuong’s Rose Fellowship, among other awards. She is a recent alum of Clarion West Workshop, Tin House Workshop, and UMass Amherst’s MFA in Fiction. Rutendo’s work has been nominated for the 2024 AKO Caine Prize, and won the 2023 Fiction Best of a Shallow Award.
Jacqueline Nyathi
Jacqueline Nyathi, founder of Harare Review of Books, a monthly must-read newsletter for lovers of literature, also writes for several international publications, including The Continent, The Sunday Long Read, and Moya Magazine. Her passion for literature and her dedication to promoting reading have made her a respected voice in the literary world.
T. L. Huchu
T. L. Huchu is the author of the Edinburgh Nights series, an original and gripping fantasy series for a crossover audience, published by Tor UK and Tor US. He won the 2022 Nommo award for best novel, the 2023 Hurston, Wright Legacy Award. author, known for his novels The Hairdresser of Harare and The Maestro, The Magistrate & The Mathematician.