Gabrielle Emem Harry
@gabbyharry.bsky.social
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alleged writer. words in: strange horizons, apparition, solarpunk, omenana… twitter: @asarirl
i posted something new on substack for the first time in ages. read it and tell me what you think! 💜
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the philosophy of scars: designing how the body meets the world
on interruptions and continuations.
https://open.substack.com/pub/gabbyharry/p/the-philosophy-of-scars-designing?r=8vm3k&utm_medium=ios
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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
about 1 month ago
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Will This Be A Problem?
5 months ago
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...
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so excited to have a story in the wrath month anthology! 🎉
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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾
7 months ago
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
apparitionlit.com/vessels-and-...
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Vessels and Warnings - Apparition Literary Magazine
https://apparitionlit.com/vessels-and-warnings/
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omg this was one of my first stories 🥺
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7 months ago
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💜💜💜
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thank you so much for this lovely reviewwwww 🥺
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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!
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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…
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/faith-is-a-butterfly-resting-on-a-rotting-eye-or-the-art-of-faith/
8 months ago
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Wole Talabi
9 months ago
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.
appliedafricansf.com/2025/02/01/c...
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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…
https://appliedafricansf.com/2025/02/01/call-for-proposals-new-short-fiction/
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Suyi
9 months ago
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! 👇🏿
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James A Lyons
9 months ago
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
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Aaron Olátunjie Cole is ✨Vague✨👀
9 months ago
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
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Rowan Brighton Brown
9 months ago
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.
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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
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Wole Talabi
10 months ago
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
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10 months ago
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Will This Be A Problem?
10 months ago
WTBAP? THE ANTHOLOGY ISSUE V is finally out! Edited by
@dontcallmeliv.bsky.social
&
@somtoihezue.bsky.social
, available on the Shilitza website, Kobo, Amazon, and wherever books are sold. 16 hauntingly beautiful stories from all over Africa and the African diaspora ✨
www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/...
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Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology : Issue V (ebook)
From across the African continent and its diaspora, Will This Be A Problem? Issue V brings together a powerful collection of stories that blend the fantastical with the deeply real. These tales explor...
https://shilitzapublishing.com/product/will-this-be-a-problem-the-anthology-issue-v/
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Somto Ihezue
10 months ago
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/
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i’m so so happy and grateful to see that my story “faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye” published in
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
made the
@bsfa.bsky.social
longlist for best short fiction! 🥺
10 months ago
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still really really happy that my story made this list :)
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10 months ago
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really nervous to share this because i never ever write nonfiction but yeah here are some personal reflections on the last day of the year 🍊✨
www.ikoafrica.com/user/read/67...
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grief is a gift, change is god and rot is a blessing | gabby
hoping we all have a sweet new year 🍊✨
https://www.ikoafrica.com/user/read/6773bb5931163175bf6487b6?recommendations=false
11 months ago
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in a shocking turn of events, i woke up yesterday morning and finished my first round of novel revisions. i didn’t think i could finish this year but i did. so yay!
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11 months ago
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my story “how the end begins” is out in the 10th anniversary issue of
@omenanamag.bsky.social
✨ it’s about a witch who is not a witch, a trader’s daughter asking dangerous questions and the consequences of seeking love, death and answers in the palm of a god 🌕🦉🌊
omenana.com/2024/12/24/h...
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How the End Begins | Gabrielle Emem Harry - omenana.com
The forest was Ayanti’s home, the monkeys her companions and enemies. Snails slithering up her arms and snakes curling around her ankles were the only affection she had ever known.
https://omenana.com/2024/12/24/how-the-end-begins-gabrielle-emem-harry/
11 months ago
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11 months ago
My short fiction recs for Oct-Nov are up! With stories from Sagan Lee,
@gabbyharry.bsky.social
@aijiang.bsky.social
@wnwagner.bsky.social
@thomasha.bsky.social
@emmajgibbon.bsky.social
@spencerwriting.bsky.social
L.M. Guay--
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Short fiction recs! Oct-Nov 2024
The winter solstice is past, Christmas and New Year’s are coming. In this brief breath before the major holidays, perhaps you’ll have time...
https://itsajumble.blogspot.com/2024/12/short-fiction-recs-oct-nov-2024.html
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thanks so much again for including my story in this great list!
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i love this story so much!
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11 months ago
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i will not 💀
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11 months ago
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finished revising what used to be the most tedious section of my novel and it wasn’t even that bad? i expected it to be excruciating to read and i genuinely didn’t hate it. wow.
11 months ago
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will i finish revising this novel this year? we can only hope
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here with another award eligibility post for my story “faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye” which is out in
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
! this is my favourite part of the story :)
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thank you so much dare 🥺
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12 months ago
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and it’s an INCREDIBLE book!
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12 months ago
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12 months ago
Do yourself a favor and read this short story. 💕 I’m ready to make offerings to Adeh myself today.
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Steven Underwood
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Black people deserve to be read and to write our stories in our voice (NYT best sellers or otherwise). I made a Starter Pack of Black Authors who you can support, share, engage and loosely follow during and between book tours. Hit Follow All.
#addtoBlackSky
#AddtoBookSky
go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
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quick reminder that this story is eligible for all the awards so please take a second to read the gospel of our lord and savior adeh today 🫵🏾
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http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/faith-is-a-butterfly-resting-on-a-rotting-eye-or-the-art-of-faith/
https://t.co/4aR0QXKCPe
12 months ago
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Nkereuwem Albert
about 1 year ago
November’s newsletter is out. I talk about a process I love so much: draft revisions 👀 Read x Subscribe 😊
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https://open.substack.com/pub/nkereuwem/p/killing-your-darlings?r=2t2rjq&utm_medium=ios
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K.C. Mead-Brewer
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fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by
@angelaliu.bsky.social
,
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
, Natasha King, &
@gabbyharry.bsky.social
🦇⚡ not signed up for my weekly weirdo letter? you should still check out these stories! here's the link
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a shadow, a scratch, a fang, a squirm
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
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read somto's (very fun) story!
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i have one story eligible for awards this year so please consider "faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye" (in @strangehorizons.bsky.com, my short story about a man living in his brother's shadow, the gods he learns to hate and the complex art of faith!
strangehorizons.com/fiction/fait...
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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…
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/faith-is-a-butterfly-resting-on-a-rotting-eye-or-the-art-of-faith/
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i have one story eligible for awards this year so please consider "faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye" (in @strangehorizons.bsky.com, my short story about a man living in his brother's shadow, the gods he learns to hate and the complex art of faith!
strangehorizons.com/fiction/fait...
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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…
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/faith-is-a-butterfly-resting-on-a-rotting-eye-or-the-art-of-faith/
about 1 year ago
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thanks plangdi 🥺
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Vanessa Fogg
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I love this story by
@gabbyharry.bsky.social
so much. It's a tale of faith and doubt, of gods and the cruelties done in their names. A tale about truth and lies, and what humans need to believe. Brilliant
strangehorizons.com/fiction/fait...
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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…
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/faith-is-a-butterfly-resting-on-a-rotting-eye-or-the-art-of-faith/
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Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe is querying!
about 1 year ago
As if it wasn't hard enough to be a writer from Nigeria...😔
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Dare
about 1 year ago
hi. Dare Segun Falowo, here. I'm author of Caged Ocean Dub and many other things. Looking for the spec fic arm of this here site. Looking forward to wonderful new things.
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Charles (Cy) Payseur
about 1 year ago
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️🌈 OUT IN SEPTEMBER 2024!!! Up to novella, indie okay, originals only please. Reply with the title, author, and a link to read and/or purchase and I'll get it on my list. Here's August for more info/context:
www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
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Some Queer Short SFF - August 2024 | Charles Payseur
Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/some-queer-short-113084717
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so excited to share that my story “faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye” is out today 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 🦋☠️🌊🌬️
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http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/faith-is-a-butterfly-resting-on-a-rotting-eye-or-the-art-of-faith/
https://t.co/4aR0QXKCPe
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
This one's for Chadwick. ✊🏿 Coming April 2025. Full announcement:
suyidavies.com/updates/blac...
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finally signed the contract so i’m excited to share that my story “faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye” (or “the art of faith”) is going to be published in
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
🥳
about 1 year ago
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