What?

You mean we are this close to close the gap?

16%!

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Quote graphic from Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology set on a background has a textured reddish tone with decorative speech-mark elements. The text reads: Minika crushes white chalk into powder in her left hand, muttering an incantation. She stretches her hand out and lets the wind blow the powder away. When the last of the powder is gone, the tip of her finger follows, dissolving into dust. The wind carries her hand and arm and shoulder, until her whole body is swirling in the warm breeze, the day’s last breaths. Attribution below: Something Cruel Gabrielle Emem Harry Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V The WTBAP logo appears at the top and a red button at the bottom reads: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke

Are you looking for 2025 fiction? Try this short story, “Something Cruel” by @gabbyharry.bsky.social from Issue V of our anthology.

Free access on our website until Dec 12.

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the philosophy of scars: designing how the body meets the world on interruptions and continuations.

i posted something new on substack for the first time in ages. read it and tell me what you think! 💜 open.substack.com/pub/gabbyhar...

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THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER x BLACK LEOPARD RED WOLF

Everything Kuyom loves dies. That's the curse her god has placed on her. In a world where belief is the strongest currency, she must build her own myth if she wants to become strong enough to lift it.

#DVpit #afrofantasy #LGBT #A

Graphic of Haven Spec's review of Something Cruel by Gabrielle Emem Harry featured in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology, Issue V.

Another short fiction review we liked. This time from @havenspec.bsky.social on Something Cruel by @gabbyharry.bsky.social for Issue V.

Full review of this and other stories: www.havenspec.com/short-fictio...

so excited to have a story in the wrath month anthology! 🎉

Girls are abducted from city buses & fake job interviews to be taken as ritual sacrifices that vomit money for the rich and famous. Tonight, they take back their power.

Chilling, ethereal horror by @gabbyharry.bsky.social in @apparitionlit.com

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omg this was one of my first stories 🥺

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thank you so much for this lovely reviewwwww 🥺

Faith is a Butterfly Resting on a Rotting Eye (or The Art of Faith) As children grow into adulthood, it is often hard to know who is the elder until you are told. With Akpan and Udo, anyone could tell at first sight, on first hearing, who was Akpan, the first son i…

one more eligibility post! please consider "faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye" (in @strangehorizons.bsky.social ) it’s about a man living in his brother's shadow, the gods he learns to hate and the complex art of faith! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...

Call for Proposals: New short fiction Applied African Science Fiction (SF) is a project funded by Imperial College London that, together in collaboration with the University of Nairobi, the African Speculative Fiction Society, Vector a…

Attention African SFF authors!
Strongly encourage you all to submit to this Applied African SF project from @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @africansfs.bsky.social, Uni of Nairobi & The Intn'l Black Spec Writing Festival.
Call for Proposals: New short fiction.
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NEW @prosperwithdragons.bsky.social reward just dropped!

Now you can get exclusive, limited prints (8x10) for the game art. Only 100 spots left.

(Or 99, cos I'm not about to let those prints slip out of my hands.)

Support artists! Get a new card game AND new prints! 👇🏿

On the left, the title THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN is written, with the text angled vertically. To the right is a 9 square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Top middle is an image of an LGBTQ+ rights protest in black and white. Bottom middle is a picture of a piece of colourful modern art. Middle left is a road map with a magnifying glass and set of car keys resting on top. Middle right is an image of a young man with medium length hair walking through a city at night. In the centre is a pile of newspaper cuttings with the words 'are the dragnificent seven back?" written over the top in a fake headline style. On the right hand side and acting as a background image, is a drag queen waiting in the wings. If you use a screenreader or rely on alt text, I always aim to make picture posts as inclusive as possible. If I can improve in any way to make my posts more accessible to you, please do reach out and I will take your feedback on board for future posts.

HERE WE GO AGAIN x It’s a Sin

While honouring an uncle's dying wish to reunite six drag queen activists, a young gay man learns the dark truth about his adoptive mother's past. When she turns on him, he must choose—his uncle’s legacy or the woman who raised him.

#QuestPit #A #Q

Artwork for Aaron’s YA fantasy novel, SOULCAST. In the image, the main character is in the midst of a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld. Next to him, the prince and his love interest is his prey.

HUNGER GAMES x COBAB x POWERLESS

Inspired by Central Africa's Underworld of Kalunga

A boy with dangerous magic must compete in a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld, but his growing love for the Prince threatens to destroy the kingdom

#Questpit #OS

This is a moodboard of orange and green images with a spooky, woodsy vibe including a hand with a vine, and deer at night, an eye reflecting fire, a set of pill bottles, top surgery scars with a barbed wire tattoo, and a black woman covered in ivy

A Southern inheritance is always dark—whether it's a penchant for pills, a blood-soaked family farm, or an ancient magic. Sierra spurns them all, but when her dad disappears, she must choose which monsters to slay, and which to become.
#QuestPit #YA #H #T

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thank you so so much this genuinely means so much to hear 🥹

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A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy Kuyom stood at Death’s door, shuffling from one foot to the other.

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both of these stories are published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social (scroll for links!)

this novel is an expansion of my two short stories “a name is a plea and a prophecy” (which won the 2024 nommo award and appeared on the 2024 locus recommended reading list) and “faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye” (which just appeared on the 2025 @bsfa.bsky.social longlist)

THE SPEAR CUTS THROUGH WATER x SON OF THE STORM

Everything Kuyom loves dies. That's the curse her god has placed on her. In a world where belief is the strongest currency, she must build her own myth if she wants to become strong enough to lift it.

#questpit #fantasy

thank youuu!

congratulations!!! 🥳

Well hey, the Locus Recommended Reading list is out. Congrats to everyone recognized! I'm glad to see my collection CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS & my novelette "Encore" (in the Deep Dream anthology) get nods. ✨
You can now vote for them in the Locus awards which is open now --> poll.voting.locusmag.com