In its review, NOAF notes that the anthology is less of an escape, and more of a truly unique exploration. Many thanks to @annmichelleharris.bsky.social and the team at @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social for the kind words Review: 🔗 www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book... #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙🧵

Thank you so much for this awesome & thoughtful review✨ @annmichelleharris.bsky.social

Book Review: Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology: Issue V (edited by Somto Ihezue and Olivia Kidula) A unique collection of hauntingly engaging and imaginative stories @annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog: www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book...

Thank you so much Sam✨

"Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows" by Somto Ihezue @somtoihezue.bsky.social, in Beneath Ceaseless Skies @bcsmagazine.bsky.social. I have yet to be disappointed by a Somto Ihezue story... www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into...

With the Nebula and BSFA nominations open, I’d be honored if you’d consider my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. It's a story of friendship, love, and fireflies✨🪲 clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/

If I for some reason ever pass And they try to make my wife a roommate Or a shadow in my life Let it be known she was my heart. She was my everything. Not a shadow But the whole sun.

Please reply with books you know by African & Black authors coming out in 2026?

Just in case anyone out there feels like they shouldn’t post art - please do. The constant bullshit from the news is difficult but we can’t allow all of that to stop us from making art and sharing it. That’s all I have to say rn - am planning to enjoy the rest of my weekend working on sketches.

Happy New Year's Eve, y'all!! This just in: THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY is 1.99 on Bookshop and Rakuten Kobo too! ✨ Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Honored to see my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” (published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com) on afrocritik's list of 50 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2025, alongside other brilliant African authors.

“So Spake the Mirrorwitch” @premeemohamed.com “Annunciation” @legroff.bsky.social “The Black Mill” @michaelchabon.bsky.social “VFW Post 1492” Allegra Hyde “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” @somtoihezue.bsky.social "Honey Bear" Sofia Samatar

Just beautiful to see Will This Be A Problem: The Anthology, on AfroCritik's Notable African Books of 2025 list!!! Ever grateful to the talented writers who trusted us with their stories and made this anthology a reality. I'm glad people are finding and loving these stories✨

I'm sorry but I can't give up em dashes. I can't do it. I won't do it.

This story by @angelaliu.bsky.social just cuts right through!!!

there's so much hate in this country. folks who benefit the most from that hate truly love it when marginalized people target, marginalize, and hate each other. 48 million and 32 million are much stronger as 80 million 💪🏽 support each other as much as you can. listen; learn. be kind to yourself.

Great news! B&N Rewards Members get 25% off pre-orders from Dec. 30 – Jan. 1. (Use code PREORDER25) That means that if you were planning on getting SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL, now’s the time! www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shoeshine-...

I loved this story! Nominate away, folks with nominating privileges!

Be kind. Be radically kind. That's my woke opinion for 2026.

I put together a post about some of my favorite novels of 2025. It was truly a fantastic year for speculative fiction! acwise.net/favorite-nov...

Happy to say that my novelette "The Winter of the Icebergirl" was sold to @giganotosaurus.bsky.social, out in February! The Icebergirl was the greatest. Now she spends her final years in a nursing home for the empowered. Her peace is broken when she realizes that supervillains grow old too…

My new story in @khoreo.bsky.social is now out for non-subscribers! It’s inspired by a real wedding I attended! Plus aliens…

"The room went dark, but only for a moment. Across the ceiling, across the walls, tiny pinpricks of light came, gradually intensifying until a sea of stars burned alive. The constellations followed, in shimmers, tracing stories in the bright dark." ✍🏻 @somtoihezue.bsky.social

I finally got around to putting together my own eligibility post for 2025. Here's what I published this year and where you can find it! acwise.net/award-eligib...

BCS of 2025! "Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows" @somtoihezue.bsky.social BCS #425: "They put you in a room with the other girls—soon to be brides like yourself. Your aunties say it is tradition. They too were sealed in the room." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/into... #BCSof2025

Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology IV edited by @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app and myself is eligibe for Best Collection. If you’re a BSFA member and any of our works resonated with you this year, please consider nominating them. Thank you. Posting links in the thread.

really loved this one--there's such a kindness to it, while still exploring complicated relationships and emotions. the concept of kids banding together to save the fireflies is just so lovely

With the Nebula and BSFA nominations open, I’d be honored if you’d consider my novelette, “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com. It's a story of friendship, love, and fireflies✨🪲 clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezue_02_25/

✨2025 Eligibility Post✨ I co-edited an anthology with @dontcallmeliv.blacksky.app, published a novelette, three short stories, and one poem. You can read all these works via the link below, and your consideration is most welcome & appreciated. somtoihezue.wordpress.com/2024-eligibi...

Wolves need a good PR campaign. While I appreciated the metaphor in the recent Frankenstein movie, I did roll my eyes pretty hard at the wolf scenes. theconversation.com/how-hollywoo...

By love and mercy, that is a weight off. Thanks to all of you! Wrap up post and a note from Zukiswa, here:

Just read this for the first time and I absolutely loved it. Such a beautiful science fiction story about childhood. Loved how incredibly moving this was written, definitely shed a tear. Read this if you haven’t already

Scurrying in excitedly to share that my novelette “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” published in @clarkesworldmagazine.com, was loved by the wonderful people at @locusmag.bsky.social, alongside @hhpak.bsky.social’s lovely story. So grateful to @acwise.bsky.social for their kind review of these stories✨

Hey! It's midnight on the east coast, so it's release day. Thanks to @undertow.bsky.social for being such a fantastic publisher. Thanks to family, friends, and fellow writers for their support. The short fic grind has ups and downs, but it's a blast. Fricken love what we do. Thanks for reading.

SFWA is getting shivers with HWA this year at Baltimore Book Festival! On Sept 13, 3pm, the SFWA Stage features @somtoihezue.bsky.social, @justinaireland.com, @stayseajackson.bsky.social, @isisasare.bsky.social, @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social for SALVATION: LIFE AFTER SINNERS. Join us in the fray!

I guess a taxi ghost story is my debut into professional publishing! I hope you enjoy the notorious scandal twist and the Southeast Asian noir flavour. Read the story here! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/auto... (1/5)

Brilliant story from @tiatashiro.bsky.social! Loved seeing the characters unfold and change course on the page✨ clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_01_25/

Come join us for the panel, "Salvation: Life After Sinners (with HWA)" on Sept. 13 at 3 pm at the Peabody Heights Brewery on the @sfwa.bsky.social Stage. Copies of @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social The Anthology, will also be available for purchase, and we'll be doing a book signing. Come say Hi!

If you can, support/share this critical initiative to translate books from African languages into English to reach more audiences and readers worldwide. Your support will be most appreciated✨ ko-fi.com/africantrans...

Stars and Stabers has put out nothing short of stellar work thus far! Do check out the Ko-fi & support/share this new exciting anthology if you can!!! ko-fi.com/jendiagammon...

The way I'm still reeling from this story. Whew! Highly recommend. It goes from cute Jimmy Neutron-esque shenanigans to...well read and find out 🫠

Today we are thrilled to announce MEMORIES ARE ONLY VALUABLE IF THEY CAN BE LOST, a collection of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories / novelettes by @aijiang.bsky.social! The new collection is comprehensive at 40 stories / novelettes and around 120,000 words. 👀 MEMORIES will be out Spring 2027.

SFWA is going to Baltimore! Join us at the SFWA Stage for a full day of dynamic panels featuring @charliejane.bsky.social, @somtoihezue.bsky.social, Nicole Glover, @justinaireland.com, and many more! RSVP for meetup planning today. 👇👀 www.sfwa.org/2025/08/21/p...

That’s it for another #Worldcon. Loved seeing @ldlewiswrites.com @lpkindred.bsky.social @somtoihezue.bsky.social @larkmorganlu.bsky.social in person

Write Till You Drop — Anne Dillard.

$4600 over the next 17 days is not a big ask for the English-speaking literary world, and nothing I am seeing here at #Worldcon is changing that opinion. Please support. Please share. We can do this. I truly believe that in fighting genAI, it is at least as important to support human language.

Rode a bike for the first time. Next stop, the Olympics.

Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏 gofund.me/3a52097a

Now available! OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE is a magic-themed anthology featuring 31 authors of fantastic fiction. Order from your favorite bookseller. Links: www.starsandsabers.com/books/of-enc... #books #newbooks #newrelease #fantasy #fantasybooks

We're thrilled to introduce multi-award nominated @somtoihezue.bsky.social as contributor to our newest anthology, the magic-themed OF ENCHANTMENT, ENIGMA, AND THE INFINITE! Read more about Somto: www.starsandsabers.com/2025/08/02/a... #authors #writers #scifi #fantasy #speculativefiction