Omenana is an African speculative fiction magazine that is open to submission from science fiction, fantasy, African futurism, afro futurism, magical realism and other speculative fiction genre writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora.
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Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. Hey there! It is always exciting to bring you a themed edition, mainly because it is such a joy to sit back and see the robust interpretations that the imaginations of our writers cook up. We asked for Niger Delta–focused science…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. Halfway to the horizon, the light changes. Not the slow gold of evening, but a sharp, surgical shift. Shadows bend in the wrong direction. The air smells of metal instead of salt. And ahead, where the rig should be squatting on the…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. GbeneBeka. She came down with the rain, stepping lightly onto the highest branch of the iroko. She was taller than any mortal. Her skin was marked with patterns like the veins of leaves. Her eyes shone gold-white in the darkness.…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. By day, she gathered algae for chemical processing. By night, she traded in contraband, bio-codes suspended in liquid-genes that rewrite forgotten ancestry, and restore what contamination had erased in many children. The post The…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. In a world like this, where everything is grown and cultured and controlled in labs, where labels were the norm and everyone is concerned with who produced what and how it was produced, where everything is lifeless and has a dull…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. The Archivist stands behind a counter, his hands folded loosely. His uniform is the same clean white as the walls, though the fabric is softer, almost luminous under the overhead lights. His hair is thin and neatly combed, his eyes…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. Omenana magazine issue 33. With every issue, we recommit ourselves to the task of holding space for African imaginations that bend time, twist memory, and summon futures. The post Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, Issue 33…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. Once they hit the market everyone wanted one, and I mean everyone. It had been decades since anyone had a real one, so the idea that we could all have a try and see what it had been like in the old days was The post The Return | Jen…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. He kisses her forehead. At once, a feeling of calm enters her. She is being ridiculous; how can she be in danger from the man who saved her life? He has the scars on his chest to prove it. The post Metempsukhōsis | Chiemeka Akaigwe…
Omenana Speculative fiction magazine is a tri-monthly magazine that is open to submission from speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora. Habiba is submerged in an ocean of geckos. She is drowning. She can’t breathe. She opens her mouth for air but geckos wrestle into the new space. When she finally bobs up, she sucks in an atmosphere of geckos and their green slime.…
