Finalist: 2023 Theodore Sturgeon Short Story Award For “The City and the Thing Beneath It”
Finalist: 2022 Isele Magazine Prize (Short Story Category) For “The Children of No. 39 Faulks Street”
Winner: 2021 Nommo Award For Best Short Story (Joint Winner) For “Rat and Finch Are Friends”
Finalist: 2021 IGNYTE Award (Best Short Fiction Category) For “Rat and Finch Are Friends”
2020 Locus Recommended Reading List For “Rat And Finch Are Friends”
2020 British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) Longlist for ‘Best Short Fiction’ For “Rat and Finch Are Friends”
Winner: 2020 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (African Region) For “When A Woman Renounces Motherhood”
Finalist: 2020 Lambda Award for Best LGBTQ Anthology For “Limbo” a contribution to the Gerald Kraak Award Anthology
Honoree: 2020 Otherwise (Formerly James Triptree) Award For “Of Warps and Wefts”
Finalist: 2019 Gerald Kraak Award For “Limbo”
Finalist: 2019 Author of Tomorrow Prize For “The Rains Will Come from the Mountain”
Listed by Hugo-Nomimated Alvaro Zinos-Amaro as one of 150 “New” Speculative Fiction Writers to Watch
2018 Locus Recommended Reading List For “The Unusual Customer”
Finalist: 2017 & 2019 Short Story Day Africa Award For “Limbo” and “Before We Die Unwritten”
Winner: 2016 Oxford Festival of The Arts Stories for Children By Children Competition For “Vision”
Winner: 2016 African Alliance YMCA We Need New Voices (Short Story Category) For “Finding Happiness”
Finalist: 2015/2016 Iggy and Litro Young Writers Prize For “Another Morning Yet Windy”
Innocent Chizaram Ilo 