Nigerian UK-based writer and editor Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim has been named to the selected longlist for Futures, the science fiction series published by Radix Media Co-op, with his story, Save Son.
He is the only African writer on the newly announced longlist, joining 12 other writers whose works were selected among a long entry of submissions.
The longlist features stories from incredible writers, including Andrew Colarusso, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, J.M. Schmidt, Amina Washington, Robin Rose Graves, Mariah Gese, and Susann Cokal.
A UK-based writer and editor, Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim serves as managing editor at the Journal of African Youth Literature. He won the American Literary Review Award in 2025, the Creative Future Writers’ Award in 2024, and the Quramo Writers’ Prize in 2022. He was a finalist in the 2025 George Garrett Fiction Prize for his collection of short stories, Chaos and Cousins. He has been a finalist for the Faber Children’s FAB Prize and the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship, with longlistings for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the CRAFT Short Story Prize, and the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize, among other honours.
Founded in Brooklyn, New York, Radix Media Co-op is a Black co-owned, worker-owned print shop and independent publisher known for producing union-made books and printed works. Through its Futures series, the cooperative publishes literary science fiction that examines pressing social and political issues, including climate change, labor, immigration, policing, and technology through speculative storytelling.
Congratulations, Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim! We are rooting for Save Son as the final selections approach.
