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." thread/ psychopomp.com/announcing-t...

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

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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: iselemagazine.com/ephemeral-mo...

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...

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 www.orions-belt.net/archives/dre...

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 🪐📚💙 www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/like...

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 🪐📚💙 www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

"like blood on the mouths of death" — Victor Forna www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/like... •dread — horror — bleak •accept — desperate — despair •loss — loss — loss •nibble — bite — swallow www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/like...

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 💙📚🪐 lolwe.org/in-this-gard...

glad to see this story still getting love. thank you for reading it!

Notes on 33 short stories tanaudel.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/f... 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 3/3

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 strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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. bramstokerawards.horror.org/front-page/t... @nightmare-magazine.com

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. 💫

"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. 💫💫💫 @nightmare-magazine.com

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! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We're so happy and excited for Victor!!!!

(Anyway re-upping my 2024 eligibility post in case people want to read a little bit about the things I had out last year! I am very proud of the work I did and there was... a lot of work. One novel, three novellas, a novelette, and seven short stories!) premeemohamed.com/eligibility-...

Congrats to everyone with work on the Locus Recommended Reading List and the BSFA Awards longlist! My novel RAKESFALL is up on both, under SF Novel and Best Novel respectively. My novelette “The Limner Wrings His Hands” also appears on the BSFA list under the Best Shorter Fiction category.

I got a new tattoo yesterday! It's inspired by a sculpture by David Lynch. I like to think that my horror fiction is written from the fear & dark places inside me, spun into something nourishing for others. Also, it's a mantra: I'm not going to let fear stop me from what I need to do.

Happy launch day to @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social Anthology Issue V! It's full of #africansff stories that really capture the zeitgeist. I highly recommend you pick up a copy 👌🏾 Thank you so much @dontcallmeliv.bsky.social for the review copy. www.jaylit.com/a-review-of-...

Finally @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social's Issue V is OUT! 🥳🎉 Edited by @somtoihezue.bsky.social & myself, this collection is for lack of better words, such a banger 😅 get your copy on the Shilitza website, Amazon, Kobo & more! shilitzapublishing.com www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/... a.co/d/9VGhLuG

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

Congratulations! It's an excellent story. Happy to see it on the Stoker Preliminary ballot, too!

This is so fantastic, Victor!!!

Congrats chief!!

"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. 💫💫💫 @nightmare-magazine.com

Congratulations @foxesandroses.bsky.social and @shingai-be-like.bsky.social !! 🎉🎉🎉

Omg this was a shock to wake up to! My novella “Fractal Karma” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com is recommended on the Locus Recommended Reading List!!! Honored to be on here alongside so many authors I admire omg!!

:0 im on here w/ "why dont we just kill the kid in the omelas hole"! >:3 vote for me. or vote for someone else?? looks like the voting link is up, so u kno the drill etc etc

The Locus Recommended List is live! locusmag.com/2025/02...

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/

HAPPY PUB DAY TO US🥳🥳🥳 Will This Be A Problem (@willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social): The Anthology is out! Edited by Olivia Kidula and yours truly, and available on Amazon, Kobo & wherever books are sold!!! These brilliant stories will stay with me—and you—forever✨ Link below👇🏽 a.co/d/hi6T45a

"like blood on the mouths of death" by Victor Forna ran in our May issue: www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/like...

Congratulations to everyone on the Stoker preliminary ballot! We're ecstatic for Nightmare writers @rabusby.bsky.social, @ravenjake.bsky.social, Victor Forna (listed for short fiction) and Haralambi Markov (short nonfiction). Here's where to read their works:

BCS #425 ebook is out early today at @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store and for subscribers, featuring intense stories by Nne Ukwu & @somtoihezue.bsky.social and @mayachhabra.bsky.social, behind cover art by Erin Costello: weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...

We have a story, “Into Duty, Into Longing, Into Sparrows,” out in this issue!!! Many thanks to Scott for believing in this work✨