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Gabrielle Emem Harry
@gabbyharry.bsky.social
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alleged writer.

words in: strange horizons, apparition, solarpunk, omenana…

twitter: @asarirl
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i posted something new on substack for the first time in ages. read it and tell me what you think! 💜 open.substack.com/pub/gabbyhar...
the philosophy of scars: designing how the body meets the world
on interruptions and continuations.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 11d
Author Spotlight: @gabbyharry.bsky.social

Meet the award-winning Nigerian writer behind some of our favourite speculative fiction. Her words have appeared in Strange Horizons, Omenana, Isele, Apparition, Flame Tree Press, The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume 3, WTBAP and more.
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem's Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Nigerian writer Gabrielle Emem Harry set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. Below the photo, her name, “Gabrielle Emem Harry,” is displayed in golden lettering. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Teal textured background titled “Spotlight: Gabrielle Emem Harry” 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.
November 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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
October 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
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...
Graphic of Haven Spec's review of Something Cruel by Gabrielle Emem Harry featured in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology, Issue V.
June 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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so excited to have a story in the wrath month anthology! 🎉
bonabooks.bsky.social Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · Jun 4
Joel Donato Ching Jacob - @cupkeyk.bsky.social - Scholastic Asian Book Award winner

Gabrielle Emem Harry - @gabbyharry.bsky.social - Nommo Award winner

Marianne Kirby - @therotund.bsky.social - writer, editor & activist
June 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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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-...
Vessels and Warnings - Apparition Literary Magazine
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April 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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omg this was one of my first stories 🥺
April 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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April 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
gabbyharry.bsky.social
thank you so much for this lovely reviewwwww 🥺
March 21, 2025 at 6:31 AM
gabbyharry.bsky.social
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! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...
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…
strangehorizons.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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wtalabi.bsky.social
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.
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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…
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February 4, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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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! 👇🏿
nickydrayden.bsky.social Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social · Feb 12
We've hit 150 backers!

Plus there's a NEW reward tier:
Patron of Dragon Art - 8x10 dragon prints including art from @cosmicamazon.bsky.social and @xavierill.bsky.social

Support our artists and help bring more great art into the Prosper with Dragons Universe!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/115...
Enourmous green dragon resting in a cavern with a child and elder feeding it while perched on its tail. Young child in overalls and an amazing afro with a blue fledgling dragon nestled it. Teen girl with long braids riding a fiery dragon through a cityscape.
February 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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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 #A #Q
On the left, the title THE DRAGNIFICENT SEVEN is written, with the text angled vertically. To the right is a 9 square moodboard. In the four corners are images of drag queens. Top middle is an image of an LGBTQ+ rights protest in black and white. Bottom middle is a picture of a piece of colourful modern art. Middle left is a road map with a magnifying glass and set of car keys resting on top. Middle right is an image of a young man with medium length hair walking through a city at night. In the centre is a pile of newspaper cuttings with the words 'are the dragnificent seven back?" written over the top in a fake headline style. On the right hand side and acting as a background image, is a drag queen waiting in the wings. If you use a screenreader or rely on alt text, I always aim to make picture posts as inclusive as possible. If I can improve in any way to make my posts more accessible to you, please do reach out and I will take your feedback on board for future posts.
February 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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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
Artwork for Aaron’s YA fantasy novel, SOULCAST. In the image, the main character is in the midst of a deadly competition to save his mom’s soul from the Underworld. Next to him, the prince and his love interest is his prey.
February 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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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.
#QuestPit #YA #H #T
This is a moodboard of orange and green images with a spooky, woodsy vibe including a hand with a vine, and deer at night, an eye reflecting fire, a set of pill bottles, top surgery scars with a barbed wire tattoo, and a black woman covered in ivy
February 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
gabbyharry.bsky.social
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
February 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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wtalabi.bsky.social
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
February 2, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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February 2, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
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/...
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...
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February 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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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/
February 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
gabbyharry.bsky.social
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! 🥺
Faith is a Butterfly Resting on a Rotting Eye Gabrielle Emem Harry Strange Horizons
February 2, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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still really really happy that my story made this list :)
wtalabi.bsky.social Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · Jan 17
Yep. As has become annual tradition, I highlight 10(+ more) excellent African SFF short fiction stories that really stood out to me in 2024. Some brilliant, timely stories for you to check out and consider as we wind up to the next cycle of awards season. Check it! ✨
reactormag.com/the-best-afr...
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Jan 16
2024 was an incredible year for African SFF short fiction. Author @wtalabi.bsky.social (Convergence Problems, Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon) highlights ten (plus a few more) outstanding examples:

reactormag.com/the-best-afr...
January 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
gabbyharry.bsky.social
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 🍊✨

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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 🍊✨
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December 31, 2024 at 10:48 AM
gabbyharry.bsky.social
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!
gabbyharry.bsky.social Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · Dec 13
i will not 💀
gabbyharry.bsky.social Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · Dec 8
will i finish revising this novel this year? we can only hope
December 30, 2024 at 10:39 AM
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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...
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.
omenana.com
December 25, 2024 at 9:09 AM