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

My superpower is being able to single-handedly navigate the public transport system of any town, city, or country I find myself in.

12 days left to get us funded! 🚀 Help us continue printing optimistic sci-fi and fantasy: www.kickstarter.com/projects/sam... #solarpunk #scifi #fantasy #scifibooks #fantasybooks

For the last day of Disability Pride Month, here's my angry story about accessibility. Come for the punny superhero lols, stay for the much-needed catharsis at the end. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Today: All day rally for the #AfricanTranslationProject Please join. Say hi. Share something. Tell someone. If you're a creator, please donate a piece. Let's get the first translation started *today*. I'll be here. Join me? ko-fi.com/africantrans... #AfricanLiterature #Translation

Incredibly honoured to have my story, “Onitsha Main, Ochanja, The Twins, Nkpor, and the Shadows of Shoprite,” in this anthology amongst brilliant writers!!! Many thanks & gratitude to @shereereneethomas.bsky.social, the Psychopomp team, and @frombeyondpress.bsky.social for believing in this story!

Thank you omg we made it over 15k! Ok let me talk about my characters and show yall more mood boards! Check out Midnight Mystics: First All-Black Women Fantasy Graphic Novel Anthology #bvm #comicbooks #indiebooks #writingcommunity www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Excited and thankful to see my story, “Paths, Littlings, and Holy Things,” in @mariahaskins.com’s latest short fiction roundup at Strange Horizons alongside other brilliant stories and authors!!!✨ This story is out in @diabolicalplots.com 👇🏽

Thank you so much for reading and sharing✨

my latest novel is a romantasy! 🔥⚔️🔥 BURN UP IN VICTORY🔥⚔️🔥 Serafina's brother has eloped, and left her with their mother, and society. Lorenzo's best friend eloped, and left his damnable sister here. they're not really enemies but they might as well be books2read.com/burnupinvict...

Calling all students ~ get a year's worth of digital issues of Locus Magazine for only $30 by applying for our student discount. Locus Magazine could be the thing to take your writing from good to great by giving you insights into what makes fiction work! subscribers.locusmag... | Link in bio

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Oh wow! Many thanks to @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social for reviewing and including my story, “Paths, Littlings, and Holy Things,” in Reactor’s MUST READ stories!!!✨ This story is out in @diabolicalplots.com, and you can read it here👇🏽

Paths, Littlings, and Holy Things, by Somto Ihezue in Diabolical Plots. An excellent example of a short piece that is relatively simple on its face but provides backstory and worldbuilding and every opportunity. Beautifully done. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

Have you read? Paths, Littlings, and Holy Things by Somto Ihezue at Diabolical Plots When twins are viewed as omens of terror, what will a mother do? (Watch content warnings.) This story is so, so good. www.diabolicalplots.com/dp-fiction-1...

My inability to ride a bike is ruining my life.

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Just a spectacular and brilliant story from @mlclark.bsky.social with grief that envelops and roots you!!! clarkesworldmagazine.com/clark_02_25/

Cover Reveal for A RIVER FROM THE SKY (the second book in the Natural Engines duology) forthcoming April 2026 with @titanbooks.bsky.social is now live with @thefantasyhive.bsky.social 👀‼️🌊🌬️⚙️ Eternally grateful to Natasha Mackenzie for once again creating such a gorgeous cover! 😭🫶🏼🔥

A lovely review by @acwise.bsky.social of the February issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com (and my novelette “We Begin Where Infinity Ends”) in @locusmag.bsky.social✨ locusmag.com/2025/05/clar...

Achingly beautiful story from @jenniferhudak.bsky.social✨

Yes! Congrats, Somto!

My story “Paths, Littlings, and Holy Things” is out today! It's a story of family & fortitude. Above all, it's one of love. I'm not one to write about love (that's a lie, I always write about love), but exploring love amidst grief & pain was a journey. I hope this story brings you on a journey too✨

HERE WE GOOOOO! I'm unbelievably excited to bring you such a wildly ambitious craft book; each month for the last *year* I wrote a story collaboratively with an amazing writer, accompanied by a non-fiction piece about how and why we wrote what we did. It's both a tremendous collection of fiction &

A writing career is such a dramatic career because what do you mean you might suddenly not be able to write for months😭

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/

Honored to have “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows” published in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social on the 2025 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award Shortlist✨

My upcoming novel, Ballad of the Bone Road is now officially available for preorder! If you're so inclined, there are several options at the link below. linktr.ee/acwise

Watching Star Wars: A New Hope for the very first time.

I’ll leave reviews and post more formally tomorrow, but @rsagarcia.bsky.social this is a *tremendous* work of storytelling. Cannot understate to people how much they will enjoy and might need this. ( @somtoihezue.bsky.social - WOW I trust you anyway but also WOW ) Read. Read. Read.

Book haul (of two)📚 from the ever brilliant @rsagarcia.bsky.social. I had the pleasure of editing The Unbearable Taste of Fruit and Wine, and I will never stop talking about it!!!

Oh! I have a new story out in the latest issue of Clarkesworld Magazine. "Descent" is a standalone science-fantasy novella set in the amazing @sauutiverse.bsky.social about an exploration mission on a planet of storms, epistemology, parental expectations and the limits of knowledge. Check it!

Folks in the US, UK, and all international readers can now get print copies of our anthology via Lulu!!!✨ www.lulu.com/shop/somto-i...