New story out! “Dad went out to Get the Milk” in @LightspeedMag is a fantasy piece about the costs of being an absent yet ‘providing’ parent, while also dealing with monsters from other worlds. Tune in if that’s your thing: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dad-...

New story out! “Dad went out to Get the Milk” in @LightspeedMag is a fantasy piece about the costs of being an absent yet ‘providing’ parent, while also dealing with monsters from other worlds. Tune in if that’s your thing: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dad-...

Two of my favourite stories come out in October, and coincidentally both in Lightspeed and Nightmare

I have a story out in Lightspeed this month that’s about…wanting your parent to leave you alone after they finish fighting monsters, so you can play on your Nintendo? Don’t ask me too many questions

New story day! “They Bought a House” in @nightmare-magazine.com is an unhinged haunted house set in Benin city. There are ghosts making ccoconut rice, there are people living in walls, and most importantly, there is Nothing 🤗. Read here: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...

All the World’s a Prison @failedarchitect.bsky.social Osahon Ize-Iyamu In not-so-distant-future Lagos, a young man finds himself locked out of his own apartment after being away due to a public mental breakdown, losing exclusive ownership of the apartment

Story day! What if Jack from Jack and Jill was used for rice + chicken? Or Mary’s little lamb was used for efo riro? “The Revised Version” is all about cooking nursery rhymes, but also the weight of family responsibility. Read here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-revise...

Story day! For Failed Architecture, “All the World’s a Prison” is science fiction about the horrors of Lagos housing, but worse. What makes you eligible to possess a space? What if it’s taken from you? Read here: failedarchitecture.com/all-the-worl...

Story day! For Failed Architecture, “All the World’s a Prison” is science fiction about the horrors of Lagos housing, but worse. What makes you eligible to possess a space? What if it’s taken from you? Read here: failedarchitecture.com/all-the-worl...

fun and creepy, with a real gut-punch at the end

Story day! What if Jack from Jack and Jill was used for rice + chicken? Or Mary’s little lamb was used for efo riro? “The Revised Version” is all about cooking nursery rhymes, but also the weight of family responsibility. Read here: theorangebee.substack.com/p/the-revise...

SPOILERS but I think there’s such an interesting parallel re: Remmick in Sinners and the Peoples Temple aka ‘Jonestown’ irl. Charismatic leader promising Black people that freedom can only exist in the confines of death. Where are the essays on this or do I need to open laptop?

The protagonist is on the run from a Fox that tricked him into sacrificing himself to save his underground mining community from the end of the world. But he grows tired. He must outwit the fox. By @osahon4545.bsky.social in @lightspeedmagazine.com www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-t...

Ever since Ogbe's mother became the soil in his garden, he's been pretty reclusive. He only focuses on tending to her. Weeding, watering, killing pests. An eternal penance. Heartwrenching metaphorical fantasy by @osahon4545.bsky.social www.sanspress.com/the-archive-...

Glad to see this pop up on my feed from a few months ago. It was a delight then, and it is a delight now.

Sunwoo is brilliant and this is equally a brilliant story:

My story, The Lexicon of Lethe, is out in Lightspeed @lightspeedmagazine.com⚡️It’s about a French-Korean restaurant and a word-eating monster✍️💜 Link to the story provided below — there’s both a text and a podcast version! www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...

Sometimes I have to remind myself that this is really happening😅 Congratulations to everyone!!

What is home to you? Etinosa grapples with this question as the government replaces his home with a memory chip and then with memory booths & the disconnection feels sharper than ever. Sci-fi with lots of heart by @osahon4545.bsky.social #africansff 🪐📚💙 logicmag.io/policy/a-hom...

“Haven’t you ever wanted an adventure out on the open sea?” In a Nigeria overcome by floods, Uti, his dad, and brother look for work in the polluted waters. Heart-wrenching innovative cli-fi by @osahon4545.bsky.social for @reckoningmag.bsky.social #africansff 🪐📚💙 reckoning.press/more-sea-tha...

For any last-minute Hugo nominations: This lil' Nebula finalist is *also* eligible for the Best Novella category in the Hugos.

A story about siblings that yearn for connection but are forever kept apart by the machinations of their dysfunctional family. By @osahon4545.bsky.social via @strangehorizons.bsky.social #africansff 🪐📚💙 strangehorizons.com/fiction/flag...

Lost Ark Dreaming goes Nebula! @sfwa.bsky.social

Very different from scavengers reign, but I’m loving common side effects

Thank you @reactorsff.bsky.social for revealing the stunning cover for my debut novella, AUDITION FOR THE FOX! Arrives 9/16 from @tachyonpub.bsky.social, illustrated/designed by @hyperbolictelly.bsky.social Get a closer look & exclusive excerpt below, plz share! 🦊💜 reactormag.com/ccover-revea...

Very grateful for how well my novel SHIGIDI has done internationally and critically (9 award nominations and 1 win!) but sales in North America have been tepid. So if you're in North America and you enjoyed the book, kindly talk about it, get it for a friend, leave a review. It all helps. Thanks!

Did you hear that? It's Jennifer Hudak week! Cupcakes for all!

Just read the Secret History for the first time and WOAH. Where have I been? What a fantastic book

Wonderful words about They Bought a House!

My latest newsletter includes recommendations for resistance, comfort, and two stories by @vanessafogg.bsky.social and @osahon4545.bsky.social. Free to read, but if you subscribe (also free!) you might persuade me to upgrade a tier so I can include cat photos again... buttondown.com/JenniferHuda...

Contract signed, so “O Mechfighter, O Starsinger” will be appearing in @lightspeedmagazine.com !

Finally sold a short story I’ve been editing since 2018 💀 epic space opera, lost Edo ancestry that’s trying to be revived, and a dual POV from a human trafficking survivor who sings to the stars and a soldier who is grappling with her complicity in war

Announcement: I’ve started a writing consultancy service, where for a launch price of $10/£10/N10k, I shall come up with an action plan to help you improve your short stories/ writing and residency program applications! I’d appreciate your support: selar.co/qk6814?curre...

My novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” is out in the world today. I poured all my tenderness and childhood into this story, and I hope you find tenderness in it too✨ clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/

Catching up on so much short fiction, but this is a fantastic story by @foxesandroses.bsky.social about the distance that grows between relationships, loneliness and want: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/lone...

We are so excited for our fantastic lineup of 2025 Clarion Writers’ Workshop instructors! Applications to the Workshop are now open! Follow the link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/applicatio...

In my latest newsletter, I think my way through immersion: devotion to your craft and what it takes. I also share publishing news and updates on all my upcoming work. read (and share and subscribe) open.substack.com/pub/nkereuwe...

So excited for y’all to read this great story! Coming to Logic(s) soon

Pleased that my fantasy story “Last Ritual of the Smoke Eaters” about inhaling a dead partner’s ashes, which was originally pub’d in Lightspeed in 2023, is live in @podcastle.org with an excellent narration and touching words by the wonderful @mattdovey.com today: podcastle.org/2025/01/21/p...

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If you're like me and haunted house stories are comfort reads, you MUST read "They Bought a House" in the January @nightmare-magazine.com by @osahon4545.bsky.social www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...

I love Carmen's narration so much.

This story is utterly, thrallingly* delightful, and I thoroughly expect it to show up on a bunch of "best-of-year"-type lists. *yes, that's a word!

"They Bought A House" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu deconstructs the haunted house tale (and the ideological underpinnings of home ownership) even as it breaks down language itself. Meta but still scary!! Check it out in @nightmare-magazine.com www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...

I've just been amplifying her tweets because she's doing the thing, but if you really want something to read on January 20th, read "Countess" by @sillysyntax.bsky.social. Space Opera. Anti-Colonialism. Strategic resistance. Set to the tune of "The Count of Monte Christo." Get into it!

New story day! “They Bought a House” in @nightmare-magazine.com is an unhinged haunted house set in Benin city. There are ghosts making ccoconut rice, there are people living in walls, and most importantly, there is Nothing 🤗. Read here: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/they...

New story out tomorrow. It’s slightly unhinged. 🏠 👻 🏠 👻 🏠 👻 🏠

A person who is a "star" or at least someone with more power than you, should not be asking you for "free labour." As a writer I should not be asking any reader for anything outside of maybe check out my new book/recommend my book to a friend and perhaps leave a review if you are inclined +

New story coming out in @nightmare-magazine.com in 2 days. A hint: 🏠 🏠 🏠 🏠 🏠 🏠🏠