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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 11d
We're grateful to see WTBAP longlisted alongside so much SFF work we admire this award season. The recognition belongs to the writers and artists who trusted us with their vision. If their works stayed with you and you’re nominating, we’d appreciate your consideration.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? outlining the publication’s 2025 award eligibility set on a dark blue cosmic pattern with greeb accents. The heading reads: Will This Be a Problem? 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration Sections list eligible categories: - Anthology: Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, edited by Somto Ihezuo and Olivia Kidula (January 2025) - Magazine: Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine: Issue 2, edited by Olivia Kidula (July 2025) - Artist: Peter Marco, with artwork for Issue V & Issue 2 - Novelette: Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth by Peter Nena (Issue V), and Babies Don’t Grow in People by Peter Nena (Issue 2) Additional eligibility notes read that Olivia Kidula is eligible in Best Editor categories and Will This Be A Problem? is eligible in Best Semiprozine categories. The WTBAP and Shilitza Publishing Group logos appear at the bottom right, and WTBAP’s website link sits near the bottom centre. A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? showing all the stories from Issue V and Issue V that are eligible for 2025 SFF awards. The background is a dark blue cosmic design with greenaccents. The heading reads: Will This Be a Problem? 2025 Award Eligibility, For Your Consideration. Below is a list of eligible novelettes, short fiction and their authors. Novelette: Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth by Peter Nena (Issue V) Babies Don’t Grow in People by Peter Nena (Issue 2) Short Fiction (Anthology): - The Sirangori Fey Market by Ephraim N. Orji - I’m Home by Rutendo Chidzodzo - Something Cruel by Gabrielle Emem Harry - Ash Baby by Andrew Dakalira - Dinosaurs Once Lived Here by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu - The Market of Memories by Azara Tswanya - A Song of Ruin by Alex Tamei - Scales and Arabesques by Lucille Sambo - The Clans by Tonny Ogwa - Baby Potion by Matseliso Motsoane - Acceptance by Khaya Maseko - The Language We Have Learned to Carry In Our Skin by Shingai Kagunda - If Memory Serves by Kevin Rigathi - Mr. Original Swag by Victor Forna - Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels by Albert Nkereuwem Short Fiction (Magazine): - The Herd by Lucille Sambo - Non-Remembrance by Plangdi Neple - Ritual by Olufunmilayo Makinde - Do The Bop Bop by Azure Arther The WTBAP and Shilitza Publishing Group logos appear at the bottom right, and WTBAP’s website link sits near the bottom centre.
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Alright. As is now tradition, here are my 10 favorite African SFF stories from 2025 📖 📚

Featuring tales from: @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omenanamag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @zamashort.com @khoreo.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social + more!
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 7d
2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor
Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...
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February 5, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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Once again if you are not currently following @shingai-be-like.bsky.social , do so now
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 7d
2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor
Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...
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February 5, 2026 at 3:19 AM
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reactorsff.bsky.social
2025 was another great year for African short fiction! Author @wtalabi.com recommends 10 highlights across science fiction, fantasy, and horror, from "magic-for-wealth schemes" to an unsettling religious organization (in space). And if there's some ties in there...? We're not complaining.
Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025 - Reactor
Here are some of the speculative fiction gems that may have flown under the radar in 2025...
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February 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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formerlykevin.bsky.social
My story "If Memory Serves" made it to Reactor Mag's Ten(ish) of the Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025.

Its currently free to read on Will This Be A Problem?

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February 5, 2026 at 5:47 PM
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to the African writers and editors featured on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙🧵
February 5, 2026 at 10:55 AM
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We’re delighted to share that Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology has made the 2025 @locusmag.bsky.social Recommended Reading List!

Congratulations to everyone included.
A promotional graphic set in a purple background with wavy line patterns. At the centre, inside a circular frame, bold text reads “Spotlight: 2025 LOCUS Recommended Reading List”. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. The overall design highlights a spotlight theme. Purple textured background with the heading “WTBAP on the 2025 Locus Recommended Reading List” on a teal banner. The main text reads: The Locus annual Recommended Reading List for 2025 is out, and we’re thrilled to share that Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V has been included in truly stellar company. The Recommended Reading List is compiled each year by Locus reviewers, editors, and columnists; outside reviewers; and other professionals and well-known critics of genre fiction and non-fiction. This year, they looked at over 1,000 titles between short and long fiction. This is also the first year for the Translated Novels category. Voting is now open to all via the 2025 Poll and Survey. Results will determine this year’s Locus Award winners, to be announced on May 30, 2026, in Berkeley, California, during the Bay Area Book Festival. The Locus Awards have been held since 1971 to celebrate the best in science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing, and are voted for by readers of Locus magazine and the public. Prior winners include Isaac Asimov, Octavia E. Butler, Ted Chiang, Ursula K. Le Guin, Nnedi Okorafor, and G.R.R. Martin, with R.F. Kuang, N.K. Jemisin, T. Kingfisher, Sheree Renée Thomas, and Martha Wells among recent years’ winners.
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Day 31! One month done! I read Dinosaurs Once Lived Here by @yvettel.bsky.social published in @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social. A selection of uncreation myths. Which is your favourite? Find out mine here:
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S/D/Y Jan 30 – Dinosaurs Once Lived Here by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu – WTBAP
One month down and I finished with one of my favourites so far. Rather than creation myths, Dinosaurs Once Lived Here presents a series of different possible destruction myths, how the world might …
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January 31, 2026 at 8:10 PM
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
All the stories from Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology are once again free to read on our website. If you are reading for awards, we would be touched if you considered these fantastic and deserving works!

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January 31, 2026 at 9:22 AM
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
We're grateful to see WTBAP longlisted alongside so much SFF work we admire this award season. The recognition belongs to the writers and artists who trusted us with their vision. If their works stayed with you and you’re nominating, we’d appreciate your consideration.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? outlining the publication’s 2025 award eligibility set on a dark blue cosmic pattern with greeb accents. The heading reads: Will This Be a Problem? 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration Sections list eligible categories: - Anthology: Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, edited by Somto Ihezuo and Olivia Kidula (January 2025) - Magazine: Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine: Issue 2, edited by Olivia Kidula (July 2025) - Artist: Peter Marco, with artwork for Issue V & Issue 2 - Novelette: Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth by Peter Nena (Issue V), and Babies Don’t Grow in People by Peter Nena (Issue 2) Additional eligibility notes read that Olivia Kidula is eligible in Best Editor categories and Will This Be A Problem? is eligible in Best Semiprozine categories. The WTBAP and Shilitza Publishing Group logos appear at the bottom right, and WTBAP’s website link sits near the bottom centre. A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? showing all the stories from Issue V and Issue V that are eligible for 2025 SFF awards. The background is a dark blue cosmic design with greenaccents. The heading reads: Will This Be a Problem? 2025 Award Eligibility, For Your Consideration. Below is a list of eligible novelettes, short fiction and their authors. Novelette: Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth by Peter Nena (Issue V) Babies Don’t Grow in People by Peter Nena (Issue 2) Short Fiction (Anthology): - The Sirangori Fey Market by Ephraim N. Orji - I’m Home by Rutendo Chidzodzo - Something Cruel by Gabrielle Emem Harry - Ash Baby by Andrew Dakalira - Dinosaurs Once Lived Here by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu - The Market of Memories by Azara Tswanya - A Song of Ruin by Alex Tamei - Scales and Arabesques by Lucille Sambo - The Clans by Tonny Ogwa - Baby Potion by Matseliso Motsoane - Acceptance by Khaya Maseko - The Language We Have Learned to Carry In Our Skin by Shingai Kagunda - If Memory Serves by Kevin Rigathi - Mr. Original Swag by Victor Forna - Commensalism, or the Labyrinth’s Vessels by Albert Nkereuwem Short Fiction (Magazine): - The Herd by Lucille Sambo - Non-Remembrance by Plangdi Neple - Ritual by Olufunmilayo Makinde - Do The Bop Bop by Azure Arther The WTBAP and Shilitza Publishing Group logos appear at the bottom right, and WTBAP’s website link sits near the bottom centre.
January 31, 2026 at 7:27 AM
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Here’s work published by Rutendo Chidzodzo in 2025. The Zimbabwean writer’s work is eligible in short fiction categories, so if you’re nominating or voting this awards season, we’d be grateful for your support.

Link below.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
A promotional graphic set on a beige background with subtle cosmic illustrations and teal accents titled “Rutendo Chidzodzo | Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration” The image lists one short story published in 2025: I’m Home, Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V, January 2025 Main text reads: A brief, second-person narrative of on grief and transformation. The story follows a girl stolen by water spirits and the mother who grieves silently and prays for her return. What unfolds is less a rescue tale than an aching reflection on how encounters with forces beyond the familiar can alter a person, returning homewith edges that no longer fit the old container. The play with second person perspective doubles down on the aspect that this is you in the story. It puts you in the driver’s seat and forces your hands and legs to move along with the characters.
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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@litgalz.bsky.social’s horror short published in our second magazine issue is eligible for awards this season! Please take a moment to read and vote for it in the relevant categories if you haven’t already.

Link below

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
A promotional graphic set on a pinkish background with teal accents and subtle cosmic illustrations titled “Azure Arther | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration" The image lists one short fiction work: Do The Bop Bop, Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine, July 2025. Main text reads: While analog horror is usually associated with found footage on grainy VHS tapes, Arther skillfully manages to evoke the same feeling on the page with a short that may cause parents to take a second look at just what their children are watching, especially when it seems like the world as we know it is ending. Bop Bop!
January 28, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Honored to see Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology on The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot for!!! Grateful to all the talented African writers who trusted us with their stories and made this anthology a reality. And a huge congratulations to other recognized works👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Superior Achievement in an Anthology Allingham, LCW and Eno, River — Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts (Speculation Publications) Armiento, Isabel, ed. — One Bad Night & Other Stories (Aardvark Book Club) Bissett, Carina, ed — Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon (Storied Imaginarium) Day, Julie C.; Bissett, Carina; and Gidney, Craig Laurance, eds. — Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (Essential Dreams Press) Golden, Christopher and Keene, Brian — The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (Gallery Books) Ihezue, Somto and Kidula, Olivia — Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology (Shilitza Publishing) Kulski, Kristy Park — Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora (Bad Hand Books) Murray, Lee and Jeffery, Dave — This Way Lies Madness: Stories from the Edge of Darkness (Flame Tree Publishing) Pascale, Elaine — Darkness Most Fowl (The Godmother of Horror Press) Ryan, Lindy and Wytovich, Stephanie M., ed. - HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror (Black Spot Books)
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 PM
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Here’s what you need to know about @shingai-be-like.bsky.social's short fiction published in 2025. The Kenyan writer would appreciate your consideration in the relevant categories this award season. Link below.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
Award eligibility graphic for Shingai Kagunda’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a dark blue background with subtle cosmic illustration and teal and orange accents. The title reads: Khaya Maseko | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists Acceptance, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: In this haunting story, a young girl learns a disturbing secret about those in power and ponders this truth as she grows up to be a journalist and becomes exhausted by reporting on the never-ending violence and exploitation in our society. Kagunda likens the vices of corruption, violence and war to parasitic creatures living under the skins of Kenyan politicians, transferred over to them by the white colonizers. A story that reminds readers about the importance of holding onto our stories, and of oral tradition.
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Spotlight: 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot

We’re so thrilled to see Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology on the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
January 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Here’s what you need to know about Andrew C. Dakalira’s short fiction published in 2025. The Malawian writer’s work is eligible in the short story categories this award season, so if you’re nominating or voting, we’d be grateful for your support. Link below.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
Award eligibility graphic for Andrew Dakalira’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. Set on a purple and teal cosmic design with planets and stars. The title reads: Andrew Dakalira | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists Ash Baby, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: Offers a clever reimagining of the Biblical story of Job as a never-ending chain of cruelty and endless victims. A story that feels almost cinematic in its scale: a cosmic battle cracking open reality like a windowpane hit by too much light. Dakalira’s reverence for African spiritual traditions sits beneath the chaos, reminding you that the supernatural in our stories is rarely a departure from belief but an extension of it.
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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hararereview.com
And here's the BSFA longlisted essay that my editor @danhartland.bsky.social and I laboured over:

Strange Horizons - Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures By Jacqueline Nyathi

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January 26, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Proud to be one of the African creators on this list 💪🏾🌍💫
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 16d
Spotlight: @bsfa.bsky.social Awards Longlist!

We are delighted to have 2 entries on this year’s BSFA awards longlist, courtesy of Peter Nena's novelette and Peter Marco's artwork! A big thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congrats to all African creators recognised.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
A promotional graphic set in a dark blue background with wavy line patterns. At the centre, inside a circular frame, bold text reads “Spotlight: African Works Longlisted for the 2026 BSFA Awards”. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. The overall design highlights a spotlight theme. Dark blue textured background with the heading “Spotlight: African Works Longlisted for the 2026 BSFA Awards” on a red banner. The main text reads: The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) has announced the longlist for the BSFA Awards, recognising work published in 2025. The list includes titles by African writers and artists, and Will This Be A Problem? is delighted to have two entries longlisted this year. Peter Nena’s Babies Don’t Grow in People has been longlisted for Best Shorter Fiction, while Peter Marco’s Grasps of the Forgotten has been longlisted for Best Artwork. Presented annually since 1970, these are fan-voted awards that not only seek to honour the most worthy examples in each category, but also to promote the genre of science fiction and get people reading, talking about and enjoying all that contemporary science fiction has to offer. The awards are voted on by members of the BSFA and by the members of this year’s Eastercon, the national science fiction convention, held since 1955. Longlists comprise all works nominated by at least one BSFA member. Voting is open to all BSFA members, who may select up to four works per category, and closes on February 19. Winners will be announced at this year’s Eastercon, Iridescence, taking place on April 3-6, at the Hilton Lanyon Place and the Birmingham Metropole. Thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congratulations to all who made the categories. We’re honoured to be in such great company. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Spotlight: @bsfa.bsky.social Awards Longlist!

We are delighted to have 2 entries on this year’s BSFA awards longlist, courtesy of Peter Nena's novelette and Peter Marco's artwork! A big thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congrats to all African creators recognised.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
A promotional graphic set in a dark blue background with wavy line patterns. At the centre, inside a circular frame, bold text reads “Spotlight: African Works Longlisted for the 2026 BSFA Awards”. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. The overall design highlights a spotlight theme. Dark blue textured background with the heading “Spotlight: African Works Longlisted for the 2026 BSFA Awards” on a red banner. The main text reads: The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) has announced the longlist for the BSFA Awards, recognising work published in 2025. The list includes titles by African writers and artists, and Will This Be A Problem? is delighted to have two entries longlisted this year. Peter Nena’s Babies Don’t Grow in People has been longlisted for Best Shorter Fiction, while Peter Marco’s Grasps of the Forgotten has been longlisted for Best Artwork. Presented annually since 1970, these are fan-voted awards that not only seek to honour the most worthy examples in each category, but also to promote the genre of science fiction and get people reading, talking about and enjoying all that contemporary science fiction has to offer. The awards are voted on by members of the BSFA and by the members of this year’s Eastercon, the national science fiction convention, held since 1955. Longlists comprise all works nominated by at least one BSFA member. Voting is open to all BSFA members, who may select up to four works per category, and closes on February 19. Winners will be announced at this year’s Eastercon, Iridescence, taking place on April 3-6, at the Hilton Lanyon Place and the Birmingham Metropole. Thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congratulations to all who made the categories. We’re honoured to be in such great company. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 PM
willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social
Zimbabwean writer Lucille Sambo has two stories published in our anthology and magazine, both eligible in the short story categories this awards season. If you’re nominating or voting, we’d be grateful for your support. Links below.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
Award eligibility graphic for Lucille Sambo’s 2025 short fiction published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a purple and teal cosmic design with subtle planets and stars. The image lists two published short stories: The Herd, published by Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine: Issue 2, July 2025. Main text reads: A thrilling horror short which makes for a magnificent entry in the canon of African horror. Goats have been a long-time staple of the horror genre, but Sambo has found ways to make them feel wholly new and deeply disquieting. Scales and Arabesques, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: The distance between that far-away future where they talk of the present day as the ancient past and now is contained only within the bounds of our imagination. A story where characters begin to perceive the unseen realities that coexist within and beyond the ordinary, when a Zimbabwean ballerina in Paris has a surreal encounter with an alien.
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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Author Spotlight: @yvettel.bsky.social

Get to know more about revered Zimbabwean writer and Tin House scholar Yvette Lisa Ndlovu. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, and there’s more to come.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙🧵
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem’s Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Zimbabwean writer Yvette Lisa Ndlovu set against a dark orange patterned background with wavy line patterns. Below the photo, her name is displayed in teal lettering. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and the website link placed at the bottom. Orange textured background titled “Spotlight: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu” on an old parchment-style banner at the top. The main text reads: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (BA, MFA) is an award-winning Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller), editor and scholar. The Drinking from Graveyard Wells author writes AfroSurreal, literary horror and magical realist fiction that focuses on the experiences of Black women. Ndlovu is the co-founder of the Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship, which supports Black SFF writers worldwide. She earned her BA at Cornell University and her MFA at UMass Amherst. She is the Newhouse Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wellesley College, and has also taught at UMass Amherst, Clarion West Online and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. Her work has been supported by major fellowships and workshops, including Tin House Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers Workshop and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Her novel manuscript-in-progress was selected by George R. R. Martin for the Worldbuilder Scholarship. She is the recipient of the 2023 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing, the 2017 George Harmon Coxe Award for Poetry, the 2020 fiction prize from Columbia Journal’s Womxn History Month Special Issue and the 2021 Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest. She has also received a Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship to support her second book and is a 2025 finalist for the DAG Prize for Literature. Her work has been anthologised in the World Fantasy Award–winning Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 and the NAACP Award–nominated Africa Risen (Tor). Her fiction has also appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, Fantasy Magazine, Columbia Journal, FIYAH Literary Magazine, Lightspeed, Rosarium Publishing, Will This Be A Problem? and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and a website link placed at the bottom.
January 23, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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Here’s a list of @gabbyharry.bsky.social's short fiction in 2025 and where to find each piece. If you’re nominating this award season, we truly appreciate your time and consideration. Links below

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January 22, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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Here is work published by Sierra Leone’s Victor Forna in 2025, and where to find it. If you're nominating this award season, for your consideration are his two short stories.

Links below.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
Award eligibility graphic for Victor Forna’s 2025 short stories published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a dark teal background with subtle cosmic illustration and orange accents. The title reads: Victor Forna | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists the following: Bullets & Blossoms, Isele Magazine Quarterly / Ephemeral Moments / Issue 13, April 2025 Main text reads: An experiment inspired by a real-life incident. The issue explores the fleeting beauty of life’s impermanence. Mr. Original Swag, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025 Main text reads: Follows a flamboyant otherworldly being who will dance you out of the world. He offers an escape from the mundane, but at a steep price. The gods neither care about nor hate us but simply toy with us for their amusement. Through a TV show held somewhere in between space and time, an unfortunate contestant laments the side effects of cutting deals with these immortal beings that defy human understanding.
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Author Spotlight: @plangdineple.bsky.social

Get to know more about award-winning Nigerian writer and editor Plangdi Neple. Explore his work, which has appeared in numerous publications, including the short story "Non-Remembrance”, in our second magazine issue.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙🧵
A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem’s Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Nigerian writer Plangdi Neple set against a purple patterned background with wavy line patterns. Below the photo, his name is displayed in teal lettering. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and the website link placed at the bottom. Purple textured background titled “Spotlight: Plangdi Neple” on an old parchment-style banner at the top. The main text reads: Plangdi Neple is an acclaimed Nigerian speculative fiction writer and co-editor at Anathema: Spec from the Margins. His work largely draws inspiration from Nigerian myth, folklore and tradition. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Pilgrims, Anathema, Omenana, FIYAH, Baffling, Cast of Wonders, Uncharted Magazine, Translunar Traveler’s Lounge, African Writer Magazine, Flame Tree’s Werewolf Short Stories, The Deadland’s Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Fiction, and Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine, among others. Plangdi is a Voodoonauts Fellow, a Clarion West alumnus and a co-recipient of the Milford 2024 Bursary. He is also the recipient of the Brave New Weird Award for his story Not All Your Bones Are Yours. His story Bodies of Sand and Blood (Cast of Wonders) was shortlisted for the 2025 Nommo Awards in the Best Short Story category. Other notable works include Hidden Figures (Omenana), Oasis (Phano), Happy Dancing Rejects (Flame Tree Publishing), How to Rob a Bullion Van (Baffling), Full, Empty Houses (Kaleidotrope), Of Dreams, Wires and Nightmares (Translunar Travelers Lounge) and Non-Remembrance (Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine). His upcoming short story in Strange Pilgrims explores revenge, ghost children, queerness, and angry women. When he’s not reading, Plangdi can often be found watching old films or working through complex engineering problems. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and the website link placed at the bottom.
January 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Here’s what you need to know about Khaya Maseko’s short fiction published in 2025. The South African writer and poet would appreciate your consideration in the relevant categories this award season.

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Award eligibility graphic for Khaya Maseko’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a dark teal background with subtle cosmic illustration and green accents. The title reads: Khaya Maseko | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists Acceptance, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: A lyrical, time-distortion tale about an artificially created freedom fighter trapped between dimensions. This high punk sci-fi examines the idea of revolution and violent resistance as the only solution to increasingly oppressive systems that target vulnerable populations. It has stylistically brilliant future-building, complete with cool tech and anti-capitalistic rebellion.  Follow along as “Acceptance” destroys time itself, removing the present from the past, the many versions of reality colliding, co-existing, co-forming simultaneously.
January 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Today we’re highlighting Matseliso Motsoane, a writer and researcher from Lesotho. Take a moment to read her story, and if you’re nominating this award season, we’d appreciate your support in the short story category.

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Award eligibility graphic for Matseliso Motsoane’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a purple background with subtle cosmic illustration and olive green accents. The title reads: Matseliso Motsoane | Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists Baby Potion, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: Circumstances force a woman to reexamine the seemingly commonplace details of her life, uncovering truths that force her to reconcile with a reality she was never meant to understand. Lebo, desperate to conceive, moves through a world where whispers travel fastest through the hiss of hairdryers and the rhythm of braids being tightened. Motsoane turns the beauty salon into a kind of informal intelligence agency, a place where truth, suspicion, and female intuition collide. Is it her husband? Her mother-in-law? A rival woman meddling with biology or magic? The story carries the intrigue of a domestic thriller but lands somewhere more surprising, more playful, and more thoughtful than the setup promises.
January 19, 2026 at 7:50 AM