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Independent press | Sheffield | #okapibooks short stories, fiction & anthologies

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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
Thank you to all our readers and everyone who has been behind the press. Our next publication will be a unique anthology titled CODE. Do keep up with us to find out when submissions will be open : ) and of course for when the book will be available
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@writtengallery
Akeem Balogun
1 year
In good company @site_gallery x @OkapiBooks
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@BBWaSA_UK
BBWaSA
1 year
The Storm by Akeem Balogun published by @OkapiBooks (2020). @writtengallery received a @Soc_of_Authors Somerset Maugham Award for his debut collection of 13 short stories. The audiobook has a few sound effects! Kate Tyte review for @TSSPublishing (2020):
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theshortstory.co.uk
  Okapi Books is a new independent press, based in Sheffield. Okapi’s first book, The Storm – a collection of short stories by Somerset Maugham award-winner Akeem Balogun – was published in October...
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@writtengallery
Akeem Balogun
2 years
Still a few reprints left of my debut collection, The Storm: · the first work of @OkapiBooks · features the brilliant artwork of @Arza_Pardo · Somerset Maugham Award winning (@Soc_of_Authors) And new work from myself pending... https://t.co/cQIjDIof2M
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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
2 years
Get it here: https://t.co/bXK2MRZWBF Thank you to everyone who supported our first book and the publisher. We are hard at work on our next entry, but for now... grab a copy of The Storm. There aren't many left...
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okapibooks.com
by Akeem Balogun "The Storm takes the short story at face value, as a site for experimentation and representation; formally inventive and diverse in its registers, by turns episodic and graphic..." –...
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Akeem Balogun
2 years
There are still a handful of copies left of The Storm (@OkapiBooks) reprints... More stories soon...
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Akeem Balogun
2 years
Perfect timing. Get it at https://t.co/cQIjDIoMSk, published by @OkapiBooks
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Off the Shelf Festival of Words
2 years
Perfect day to read this …from Somerset Maugham Award winning author and Off the Shelf curator Akeem Balogun @writtengallery
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Akeem Balogun
2 years
Cannot wait. It'll be taking place at 18:00 and 19:30. Get your tickets early here
@otsfestival
Off the Shelf Festival of Words
2 years
🤩Award-winning writer Akeem Balogun (@writtengallery) creates a world around a researcher whose controversial paper sparks national outrage. This #OTSfest event - supported by @MattLariv, Marius Covalciuc, Christina Ramsey & Wodwo - takes daring fiction into exhibition space.
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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
‘The Storm creates an effective mosaic of a deeply uncomfortable future across its thirteen pieces... It is an effectively written portrait of despair without resolution.' — Duncan Lawie, Strange Horizons The Storm by Akeem Balogun, reprints now available https://t.co/qvKy0Jt4H5
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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
Well, it is Christmas ;)
@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
‘The Storm creates an effective mosaic of a deeply uncomfortable future across its thirteen pieces... It is an effectively written portrait of despair without resolution.' — Duncan Lawie, Strange Horizons The Storm by Akeem Balogun, reprints now available https://t.co/qvKy0Jt4H5
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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
The Storm by Akeem Balogun (@writtengallery), new copies now available on https://t.co/qvKy0Jt4H5. Review by @TSSPublishing
@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
5 years
Kate Tyte from The Short Story (@TSSPublishing) has given The Storm by @AkeemWrites a wonderful review. Read it here: https://t.co/w8xnmcasx2 Get the book from https://t.co/bXK2MRZoM7
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Okapi Books
3 years
The Storm by Akeem Balogun (@writtengallery), new copies now available on https://t.co/qvKy0Jt4H5. Review by @RossJeffery_
@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
5 years
'An interconnected collection of short stories with dystopian vibes.' Watch Ross Jeffery's (@Ross1982) review of Akeem Balogun's The Storm. Get the book here: https://t.co/qvKy0JswRx https://t.co/HI7A3Qy8rp
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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
The Storm by Akeem Balogun (@writtengallery), new copies now available on https://t.co/qvKy0JaVsX. Review by @BrixtonBooks
@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
5 years
Michael Caines review of The Storm by Akeem Balogun in the Brixton Review of Books. A fitting publication to feature both the author and the collection. Thank you @BrixtonBooks. Get The Storm from: https://t.co/qvKy0JswRx
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Okapi Books
4 years
A short clip of the conversation between @charlieres and @writtengallery about The Storm from our party on 19/10/21
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Okapi Books
3 years
‘The Storm creates an effective mosaic of a deeply uncomfortable future across its thirteen pieces... It is an effectively written portrait of despair without resolution.' — Duncan Lawie, Strange Horizons The Storm by Akeem Balogun, reprints now available https://t.co/qvKy0Jt4H5
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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
A second edition, limited run of The Storm by Akeem Balogun (@writtengallery) will be widely available in the next few days. Keep an eye out for it and for news of our next publication :)
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NormaN Shaft
3 years
Look what arrived today! It's a beautiful book and I haven't read any of it yet. @writtengallery
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@LongbarrowPress
Longbarrow Press
3 years
Thanks to everyone who visited the Longbarrow stall at @SmallPublishers; our tablemates @intergraphiabks & @GordianProjects, and all the publishers / stallholders; the @ConwayHall staff; and a very special thanks to @tothefields & team for making it such a memorable event!
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Akeem Balogun
3 years
Words, Vision & Sound: 3 stories projected around audiences, accompanied w/ narrations and sound Ft. Zaron, Laura Bui, @SelmaDabbagh, James Giddings, Commodo, @_DSLOFFICIAL_, Utah?, Rider Shafique & Georgia Williams 4PM & 6PM Sat 22 Oct Event Central £5 https://t.co/fqKBxESATz
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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
Brilliant
@LongbarrowPress
Longbarrow Press
3 years
Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. Here's the cover for @RobHindle5's forthcoming poetry collection 'Sapo' (with cover photography by Karl Hurst). Published by @LongbarrowPress on (or around) 31 October.
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@OkapiBooks
Okapi Books
3 years
@writtengallery
Akeem Balogun
3 years
Got a few free download codes for The Storm audiobook. If you'd like one, let me know
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