The Conceição Evaristo Prize for Afrofuturist Literature

This is an update for those who follow my work.

I won another literary award. Excellent news to start the year.

This is the Conceição Evaristo Prize for Afrofuturist Literature, from the Palmares Foundation & Brazilian Ministry of Culture. The initiative, which included a public notice and received applications in 2023, has just awarded 3 authors with R$30,000 each. A formidable incentive for this necessary subgenre of science fiction, which speculates other futures for black people. I won with the still unpublished novelette "The Point of No Return".

When will people be able to read the work? I have no information. The publishing and adaptation rights become, according to the notice, a prerogative of Fundação Palmares. I'll tell you on my social media when I know more. And here on this blog too.

A shoutout to Conceição Evaristo, the fantastic author (my counterpart, just like me born in Belo Horizonte city) who gave the title to the award, and to Fundação Palmares.

That's all for now. Take care,

Emanoel Ferreira.