PRESS RELEASE
Announcing the Afterlives 2024 Table of Contents!!
curated by @shereereneethomas.bsky.social
"This Afterlives collection has some very powerful, gifted voices that explore liminal spaces, the veil between this world and the possible next."
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V. The Heart’s Persistent Song
“Leak” by @mariahossain.bsky.social
“A Tapestry of Dreams” by @vf12.bsky.social
“The Eleventh Three-Quarters Hour” by @lesliewhat.bsky.social
“What It Means to Drift” by Rajeev Prasad
When the night was full of terrors
For our first quarterly issue of the year, we explore the fleeting beauty of life’s impermanence.
Featuring Victor Forna, Solomon Peabo, Doreen Masika, Kabubu Mutua, Lucy Zhang, Celeste Colarič-Gonzales, and more.
Read our Ephemeral Moments issue:
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Graphic shows hands holding a cell phone with lights streaking by. Text reads: "I Never Wanted a Rose Garden" By Lindsay Croal, Narrated by SL Albert; episode 586.
Graphic shows a full tree divided into two colors, purple and orange. Text reads: "Dandelion Spring" by Frank Oreto, Narrated by Emily Strand; episode 591.
Graphic shows an empty office space with computers lining the walls. Outside the windows things seem to be on fire. Text reads: "Shush!" By Victor Forna, Narrated by Alexandra Elroy; episode 596.
Graphic shows a forest floor with forest-y debris. Behind the text box are white hands coming out of the ground. Text reads: "Blooms From Your Stomach" By Akis Linardos, Narrated by Curtis Michael Holland; episode 663.
What was once dormant is being reborn. Coming out of its earthly slumber to rise once again.
As the world awakens around you, take a listen to some of TtT's best horror for spring.
bullets & blossoms—an experiment inspired by a real-life incident. by making the familiar strange, i hope i made the strange familiar.
thank you for giving this explosion a chance, @iselemagazine.bsky.social @msolisakwe.bsky.social
link: iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/b...
bullets & blossoms—an experiment inspired by a real-life incident. by making the familiar strange, i hope i made the strange familiar.
thank you for giving this explosion a chance, @iselemagazine.bsky.social @msolisakwe.bsky.social
link: iselemagazine.com/2025/04/30/b...
Fiction submissions Opening 2 more submission windows for 2025 Strange Horizons
Novelettes: (10,000 to 18,000 words) June 4th Indigenous authors: November 3rd Strange Horizons
There will be two more fiction submission windows in 2025:
Novelettes (300 story cap):
June 4th
Indigenous Authors (500 story cap):
November 3rd
More information at the links in our bio!
Writers may only send one story across all three 2025 submission windows.
In order to grant his dying son's wish, a father illegally smuggles them out of the dome they live in at the end of the world.
Heartwrenching flash fic sci-fi by @vf12.bsky.social #africanlit
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Our protagonist, a child, has noticed 3 small raffia creatures following his mother around and delighting in her slow decline, eating away at her.
Raw encounter with death and dying by @vf12.bsky.social in @nightmare-magazine.com #africanlit 🪐📚💙
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Apex Magazine Issue 146 A Tapestry of Dreams by Victor Forna The healers in the city told me they've looked through my body with the cyes of their electronic gods, they've searched for the name of my pain under skin and muscle blood and bone, yet they've found nothing.
Our narrator is gravely ill with an unknown disease. She contemplates her life. Is the pain of living worth it? Or should she join her ancestors in Roratha the Spirit World?
Heartbreaking story by @vf12.bsky.social in @apexmag.bsky.social #africansff 🪐📚💙
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"like blood on the mouths of death" — Victor Forna
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•dread — horror — bleak
•accept — desperate — despair
•loss — loss — loss
•nibble — bite — swallow
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Cover of Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology, edited by Somto Ihezue and Olivia Kidula. Featuring stories from Shingai Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Gabrielle Emem Harry, Victor Forna, Rutendo Chidzodzo, Albert Nkereuwem, Andrew Dakalira, Peter Nena, Lucille Sambo, Matseliso Motsoane, Ephraim Orji, Alex Tamei, Khaya Maseko, Azara Tswanya, Kevin Rigathi and Tonny Ogwa. The cover artwork features a tall black man in a bright orange suit with golden chains and a fedora. He stands before a mountain and a massive cloud formation with a face hidden within it.
The Table of Contents of Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology, published by Shilitza Publishing Group, out January 2025. Introduction by Somto Ihezue The Sirangoi Fey Market by Ephraim Orji (Nigeria) I'm Home by Rutendo Chidzodzo (Zimbabwe) Something Cruel by Gabrielle Emem Harry (Nigeria) Ash Baby by Andrew Dakalira (Malawi) Dinosaurs Once Lived Here by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (Zimbabwe) The Market of Memories by Azara Tswanya (Nigeria) A Song Of Ruin by Alex Tamei (Kenya) Scales and Arabesques by Lucille Sambo ( Zimbabwe) The Clans by Tonny Ogwa (Kenya) Baby Potion by Matseliso Motsoane (Lesotho) Acceptance by Khaya Maseko (South Africa) The Language We Have Learned To Carry In Our Skin by Shingai Kagunda (Kenya) If Memory Serves by Kevin Rigathi (Kenya) Mr. Original Swag by Victor Forna (Sierra Leone) Commensalism, Or The Labyrinth's Vessels by Albert Nkereuwem (Nigeria) Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth by Peter Nena Afterword by Olivia Kidula
Our upcoming Issue V, edited by @somtoihezue.bsky.social & @dontcallmeliv.bsky.social, promises 16 original stories from all over Africa and the diaspora. It blends seasoned writers with emerging voices, creating a dynamic collection that mirrors the evolving landscape of #AfricanSFF.
Even gods can't control a human heart's desire.
Imarimuthɔŋ was promised to a Kərfi by her desperate mother when she was an ailing baby. But she reneges.
Soooo I'm sobbing in the middle of the night. The yearning is superb 🤌🏾 Kudos @vf12.bsky.social #africansff 💙📚🪐
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glad to see this story still getting love. thank you for reading it!
“Good Boy” — Alison Littlewood “The Finest Creation of an Artful God” — B Zelkovich “The Third Curse” — Helen Grant “The Lights Under Rachel” — Kathryn Healy “Pilgrimage of the Hummingbird” — V Castro “The Grim” — Cavan Scott “Pontianak: An Origin Story” — Christina Sng “In Thin Air” — Phoenix Alexander “After the Animal Flesh Beings” — Brian Evenson “Brincando Charcos (Jumping Puddles)” — Ben Francisco “Rachel is at a Protest” — Esther Alter “Waystation City” — AT Greenblatt “Happily Ever After Comes Round” — Sarah Rees Brennan “For However Long” — Thomas Ha “Just You and Me, Now” — KT Bryski “Window Boy” — Thomas Ha “Three Things That Happen the Night my Dad Dies” — Isabel Cañas “How to Stay Married to Baba Yaga” — SM Hallow “The Legend of the Convenience Store Cashier” — Anna Vangala Jones “Swarm X1048 – Ethological Field Report: Canis Lupus Familiaris, “6”” — FE Choe “A Name is a Plea and a Prophecy” — Gabrielle Emem Harry “Ruminants” — Kay Chronister “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned” — Wells Tower “Spread the Word” — Delilah Dawson “Fatso” — Etgar Keret “The Last Lucid Day” — Dominique Dickey “Five Minutes” — John Morrissey “doorbell dot mov” — Jennifer R Donahue “Heathman Ldg” — Brian Evenson “like blood on the mouths of death” — Victor Forna “First, Last, Oldest, True” — E Catherine Tobler “The Maiden Voyage of the Piranha Belle” — L. M. Guay “The Sort” — Thomas Ha
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by:
FE Choe @gabbyharry.bsky.social @kaychronister.bsky.social Wells Tower @delilahsdawson.bsky.social Etgar Keret, @domsdickey.bsky.social John Morrissey @authorizedmusings.bsky.social @vf12.bsky.social @ecatherine.com LM Guay
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the horrors persist
Calling poets,prose writers & essayists to submit to the @strangehorizons.bsky.social AfroSurrealist Special Issue!Send us your worlds that slip between the mundane & the uncanny,the ghostly & the futuristic. Me & @shingai-be-like.bsky.social are co-editing
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just found out the Bram Stoker Preliminary Ballot is out, and my story, like blood on the mouths of death, is on it for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. deeply honoured!!!
and congratulations to everyone who appears.
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2024 Awards Eligibility Post
Hi!
If you're reading for any of the SFFH awards, please consider my short stories. I was lucky enough to have had four offerings out this year. You can find them in the links below. I would also be grateful for recommendations.
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"like blood on the mouths of death" appears here! THRILLED! huge thanks to the recommending group for including my story among so many wonderful works from 2024.
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The Six Deaths of The Saint is a perfect story
Once more pleading for more shattered world Dark Sun-esque fantasy in the submissions. Unsettling cadence, rich prose. Genuinely don't care about plot, just make the vibes fucked up.
The latest Lightspeed aka @lightspeedmagazine.com includes (along with many other wonderful offerings) my review of:
Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue 5
edited by Olivia Kidula & Somto Ihezue, eds.
The review goes live on the site on 2/20
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/issues/feb-2...
I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.
Voting for @apexmag.bsky.social's Readers' Choice Awards is open! My story "Complete Log of Week 893819 - Dana's Story" about a group of children interacting with weird animals in a mysterious orphanage in space, is eligible!
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thank you!
We're so happy and excited for Victor!!!!
