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Avid Reader; Afrofuturism, African fantasy, sci-fi, horror, Caribbean mythology. Dog-dad.
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Current WIP “A Call Of Bloody Things.”
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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · Feb 2
Had my first short story published two days ago. 🥹
There’s magic, there are drug addict elves and a cruel babalawo (witch doctor) who serves a forbidden god. There is a strange hungry market and a vengeful hunter. There is injustice and the loss of a child.

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Stories by:
@ecastroianni.bsky.social
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@gregegansf.bsky.social
Rich Larson
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James Morrow
@trnapper.bsky.social
Amal Singh
Lavie Tidier
Jay Werkheiser
@librariangoblin.bsky.social
October 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Honored ❤️❤️
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · Oct 5
Author Spotlight: @ephraimorji.bsky.social

The Nigerian writer’s fiction has appeared in Omenana Magazine, Eboquills, Flame Tree’s African Ghost Story Collection, Kaleiodotrope, Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology and more.
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Nigerian writer Ephraim N. Orji set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Heading reads: Author Spotlight. Below the photo, his name, “Ephraim N. Orji,” is displayed in golden lettering. Teal textured background titled “Spotlight: Ephraim N. Orji on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text introduces him as a Nigerian writer and avid reader. It highlights his published works in various publications, as well as his stort, Horror’s Many Sounds and Faces, a finalist for the 2020 Awele Creative Trust Award. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
October 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Author Spotlight: @ephraimorji.bsky.social

The Nigerian writer’s fiction has appeared in Omenana Magazine, Eboquills, Flame Tree’s African Ghost Story Collection, Kaleiodotrope, Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology and more.
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Nigerian writer Ephraim N. Orji set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Heading reads: Author Spotlight. Below the photo, his name, “Ephraim N. Orji,” is displayed in golden lettering. Teal textured background titled “Spotlight: Ephraim N. Orji on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text introduces him as a Nigerian writer and avid reader. It highlights his published works in various publications, as well as his stort, Horror’s Many Sounds and Faces, a finalist for the 2020 Awele Creative Trust Award. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
October 5, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Will always be grateful for the day I submitted to WTBAP? Anthology!

Go read us!🙈
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · Sep 22
“Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth” by Peter Nena

“Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” by @nkereuwxm.bsky.social

“Acceptance” by Khaya Maseko

“Ash Baby” by Andrew Dakalira

“The Sirangoi Fey Market” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social
Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Main text reads: And amidst all the commentary and the sensibilities, the anthology resists categorisation throughout. It refuses to be cramped inside boxes. It never consents to one definition. Peter Nena’s “Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth,” for example, features creatures with donkey-human-bat traits that are cursed by an ancient witch preying on kids through their dreams; Albert Nkereuwem’s “Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” has a sentient slime trying to understand humanity after having taken it over and Khaya Maseko’s “Acceptance” destroys time itself, removing the present from the past, the many versions of reality colliding, co-existing, co-forming simultaneously. Elsewhere, Andrew Dakalira’s “Ash Baby” imagines the Biblical tale of Job as a never-ending chain of cruelty and endless victims; and “The Sirangoi Fey Market” by Ephraim Orji is located in a bazaar existing on the cusp of the sane and the mystical, the worldly and the otherworldly, as a woman seeks a shaman to execute. A promotional graphic with a textured teal background, orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. At the centre is WTBAP’s anthology cover for Issue V.
September 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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“Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth” by Peter Nena

“Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” by @nkereuwxm.bsky.social

“Acceptance” by Khaya Maseko

“Ash Baby” by Andrew Dakalira

“The Sirangoi Fey Market” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social
Excerpt from Strange Horizons Review of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Design is set on a teal background with curved orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. Main text reads: And amidst all the commentary and the sensibilities, the anthology resists categorisation throughout. It refuses to be cramped inside boxes. It never consents to one definition. Peter Nena’s “Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth,” for example, features creatures with donkey-human-bat traits that are cursed by an ancient witch preying on kids through their dreams; Albert Nkereuwem’s “Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels” has a sentient slime trying to understand humanity after having taken it over and Khaya Maseko’s “Acceptance” destroys time itself, removing the present from the past, the many versions of reality colliding, co-existing, co-forming simultaneously. Elsewhere, Andrew Dakalira’s “Ash Baby” imagines the Biblical tale of Job as a never-ending chain of cruelty and endless victims; and “The Sirangoi Fey Market” by Ephraim Orji is located in a bazaar existing on the cusp of the sane and the mystical, the worldly and the otherworldly, as a woman seeks a shaman to execute. A promotional graphic with a textured teal background, orange and teal circular accents, the WTBAP logo at the top and the website's URL at the bottom. At the centre is WTBAP’s anthology cover for Issue V.
September 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I’ll be teaching a workshop guys! Please like and share. ❤️
spread-the-word.bsky.social Spread the Word @spread-the-word.bsky.social · Sep 8
Want to explore Africanfuturism in your writing? 🌌
Join @naomieselojor.bsky.social as she leads a workshop on ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination.’

🗓️ Tuesday 7 October, 6.30pm
📍Online
🎟️£8 (concs available)- book via link in bio 🔗
Access available.
The image is a poster with a background of Naomi Eselojor (tutor). She is a woman with blonde braids and is wearing a black turtleneck top. The top of the poster reads ‘Creating Africanfuturist worlds: Blending Tradition, Innovation and Imagination’ in white writing. In the top right the ‘Spread the Word’ logo is in white. In the bottom left corner, there are details about the workshop that read ‘7 Oct, 6.30 pm - Online Tickets £8 (concs available).’ There is a blue line underneath and then the words ‘with Naomi Eselojor.’
September 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The signed limited edition of @nkjemisin.bsky.social's THE CITY WE BECAME is in stock and shipping now. Snag your copy: subterraneanpress.com/newsnk-jemis...
N.K. Jemisin's THE CITY WE BECAME in Stock and Shipping
We’re pleased to announce that the signed limited edition of N. K. Jemisin’s The City We Became is in stock and shipping.. All of the art is already done for the follow-up to City, The Wor...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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In “The Sirangori Fey Market”, @ephraimorji.bsky.social leads you through an otherworldly ever-shifting trading ground where perilous bargains await. A tale of loss, vengeance and dangerous allure.

Read it in Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology.
#africansff
Excerpt from "The Sirangori Fey Market" by Ephraim N. Orji published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a teal background with abstract circular accents and the WTBAP logo. The excerpt reads: The tents and stalls are alive, and so is the ground beneath your feet. They rotate, shift, and spin, like chess pieces on a chessboard moved by invisible hands, until once again, you are thrust into unfamiliar territory. You grit your teeth in frustration. Seconds ago, you had found the Shaman’s tent, now it is gone, transported to yet another location in the market. In its place is a stall bursting with brightly coloured fabrics that make you scrunch your nose in distaste. A faery woman attends to the fabrics, her wings a blur as they beat viciously behind her. Her hair is held up in a bun, and her orange skin, spotted with rosettes of blue, shimmers with iridescence. As though sensing your stare, she turns. You are experienced enough to know not to look away. Her black eyes, like twin orbs, glint in excitement and her face spreads into a smile that almost convinces you she is harmless. Introduction by Olivia Kidula for "The Sirangori Fey Market" by Ephraim N. Orji, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V. Displayed on a teal background with orange and turquoise accents, the WTBAP logo and stylised quote marks. Text reads: In Ephraim Orji’s “The Sirangoi Fey Market”, readers will be drawn into a world of both wonder and dread as a woman navigates a mystical, otherworldly market, her motive rooted in a profoundly worldly pain.
August 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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More African panels to catch at #worldcon

🕓 4-5 PM EAT

The Role of African Spiritualities, History & Mythology in Speculative Fiction

@oluwasigma.bsky.social (M) @ephraimorji.bsky.social, @mdmoustaf.bsky.social, @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social, @nkereuwxm.bsky.social & @africansffhype.bsky.social
Graphic for a Worldcon 2025 panel titled "The Role of African Spiritualities, History, and Mythology in Speculative Fiction” displayed on a textured teal background with gold and red design elements. The WTBAP logo appears at the top. Below, the date, time, venue and panelists for the session are listed. A promotional graphic with a textured teal background, curved shapes, golden grid elements and the WTBAP logo. At the centre, inside a circular frame, bold text reads: For More Info, Visit: Seattle WorldCon 2025. At the bottom, the website
August 17, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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“Rosette Spots” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social (Spring ‘25) “doesn’t hold back as the story explores hurt and grief and rage, and the lines between humans and animals.”
Baffling, Kaleidotrope, and Small Wonders: Reviews by Charles Payseur
Baffling 4/25 Kaleidotrope Spring ’25 Small Wonders 4/25 The April issue of Baffling features seven stories from authors new to the publication, including Plangdi Neple’s “How to Rob a Bullion Van”…
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July 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️.
July 22, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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My favorite anecdote about THE BEWITCHING is that people are surprised a student has a laptop in 1998. I had a laptop in 1998. Weighed like a ton of bricks and had a CD player. We also had Internet. Connected via the phone jack and it made funny sounds. We messaged each other through ICQ.. Etc.
July 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Loved every bit of it. The three stories I’ve read in this collection so far have been quite the experience. Exquisite writing. Terrifying and vivid. This particular story is so carefully written and full of tenderly depicted violence. (Whatever that means.)
July 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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"He'd had a name once, this man."

"Rosette Spots" by @ephraimorji.bsky.social
“Rosette Spots” by Ephraim N. Orji
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June 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I hate the concept of killing your darlings in writing 😭. The mental gymnastics I had to pull off to keep this particular darling (knowing I might still take it out when I look at this draft tomorrow) was profound. I hate when good paragraphs and sentences have to tossed out 😭
June 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Finally had the courage to finish it today. One of those novels I know I’ll be rereading for years to come. Williams writes such beautiful sentences. I have over a hundred highlights; sentences that sent my chest flipping over. A brilliant magical devastating book.
A cover of Philip B Williams’ debut novel, Ours.
June 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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💔 it's so good!!
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Jun 6
What would you walk away from to become what you really are? How much of your humanity would you give up to find the animal inside?

Read “Rosette Spots” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social and find out.

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He’d had a name once, this man. A name he could barely remember now, a name that came to him in dreams, spoken through the cracked lips of a woman he knew he had once known but had no memory of.
June 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
ephraimorji.bsky.social
That’s my story y’all 🤭
kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · Jun 6
What would you walk away from to become what you really are? How much of your humanity would you give up to find the animal inside?

Read “Rosette Spots” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social and find out.

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
He’d had a name once, this man. A name he could barely remember now, a name that came to him in dreams, spoken through the cracked lips of a woman he knew he had once known but had no memory of.
June 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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What would you walk away from to become what you really are? How much of your humanity would you give up to find the animal inside?

Read “Rosette Spots” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social and find out.

kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...
He’d had a name once, this man. A name he could barely remember now, a name that came to him in dreams, spoken through the cracked lips of a woman he knew he had once known but had no memory of.
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Read this over the weekend--gripping, tightly-written SF horror. Effective and economical in its worldbuilding and characterization; not a detail out of place. When the story hits its beats, they feel not formulaic but inevitable.
ephraimorji.bsky.social E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · Apr 22
This is a Love Death+Robot type short story.Heartbreaking and horrifying.A team of ex cons stranded in a swamp on a strange planet.Hunted down by flesh melting fungus.There’s gay sex, drug addiction, and grief.Will need to read more of this author’s work. 10/10 clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_01_16/
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Extraction Request by Rich Larson
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May 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Started reading this sometime last year. I gave up after the first few pages. This is my second attempt. I know it has promise, just need to get past that initial hurdle 🌞.
May 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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So nice that Kinning is a finalist for the Locus Award! I am in awe of the other novels in this category, and tickled to see such a funny, weird, sweet, strange book of mine included in with them. locusmag.com/2025/05/2025...
2025 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists
Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 21, 2025, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile …
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May 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Just realized if I read one short story every day of the year I’d have read 365 stories by December 31st! How did I not think of this sooner.
April 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Another very intense action packed emotional short story by the same author. Enjoyed reading this. It’s always a joy when I find an author whose work sends me hunting down everything they’ve written.

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April 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This is a Love Death+Robot type short story.Heartbreaking and horrifying.A team of ex cons stranded in a swamp on a strange planet.Hunted down by flesh melting fungus.There’s gay sex, drug addiction, and grief.Will need to read more of this author’s work. 10/10 clarkesworldmagazine.com/larson_01_16/
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Extraction Request by Rich Larson
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April 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM