Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe is querying!
@oluwasigma.bsky.social
he/him. part-time god of stories. applied mathematician. ✍🏾: F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Podcastle, Baffling Magazine etc. Ignyte Award winner.
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Live in BCS #444: "A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe "Even as I watch, a demon emerges. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up and wraps itself around the demon's waist." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/a-li...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - A Librarian’s Resolution In The Land Of Demons by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe
Even as I watch, a seven-foot-tall demon emerges. It growls and looks at the wall that divides the city. Before it can take another step, one of the roots crawling through the city rises up with unnat...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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It's also got some action in it but is a bit more focused on relationships, power, magic, and pain. There is a relentless quality to the piece, as this great weight of history comes crashing down, and only one person can truly face it. It's beautifully accomplished.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It's also got some action in it but is a bit more focused on relationships, power, magic, and pain. There is a relentless quality to the piece, as this great weight of history comes crashing down, and only one person can truly face it. It's beautifully accomplished.
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"A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe returns to the half-ruined city introduced in “A Witch's Transition In The City Of Ghosts” and completes the destruction, giving some background to the setting and exploring more of its depth and tragedy.
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe returns to the half-ruined city introduced in “A Witch's Transition In The City Of Ghosts” and completes the destruction, giving some background to the setting and exploring more of its depth and tragedy.
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Go read my newest short story featuring gay witches and grotesque demons!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #444 by Scott Andrews
Scary stories for the Halloween season by Peter Darbyshire--a new tale in his series of the gunslinging fallen angel Azrael--and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe--a sequel to his Ignyte Award-winning story “A Witc...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Go read my newest short story featuring gay witches and grotesque demons!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
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New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #444 by Scott Andrews
Scary stories for the Halloween season by Peter Darbyshire--a new tale in his series of the gunslinging fallen angel Azrael--and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe--a sequel to his Ignyte Award-winning story “A Witc...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Go read my newest short story featuring gay witches and grotesque demons!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
New Issue: BCS #444 out today, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to his @theignyteawards.bsky.social winning BCS story), cover art @brucedraws.bsky.social: www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Issue #444 by Scott Andrews
Scary stories for the Halloween season by Peter Darbyshire--a new tale in his series of the gunslinging fallen angel Azrael--and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe--a sequel to his Ignyte Award-winning story “A Witc...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Go read my newest short story featuring gay witches and grotesque demons!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
Stoked to be sharing an issue with an Angel Azrael story. Starstruck!!!
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Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...
That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’ | Reckoning
Have you ever seen a behemoth? The ones brought in by the foreigners after the silent war? I was a boy, eight, nine years old, when I saw it. Have you ever seen a forest catch fire? Your entire villag...
reckoning.press
October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Today from A CHORUS, DIVERGENT, our neurodiverity reprints issue, "That Time My Grandfather Got Lost in the Translations of the Word ‘Death’" by @oluwasigma.bsky.social, an SF poem in which giant metal mechs stand for the resistance of language to the forces of empire reckoning.press/that-time-my...
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"The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, from LIGHTSPEED (2024) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
LS also published "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by him in July www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
LS also published "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by him in July www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
The Last Word - Lightspeed Magazine
I am running out of Words. I stumble down the temple steps, clutching my wounded side. I had been too slow to use my fourth Word and the prison guard’s spear had drawn blood before he choked to death ...
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October 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"The Last Word" by Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe, from LIGHTSPEED (2024) www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-...
LS also published "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by him in July www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
LS also published "A Dish Best Served Cold Or An Excerpt From The Cookbook Of The Gods" by him in July www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
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How does depression feel like? Like a rock sitting on your head. Like a portal made of broken glass, that you created. In @nightmare-magazine.com is Body? Glass, a world where you can feel every pain. But what if you could feel more than just suffering? www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/body...
Body? Glass - Nightmare Magazine
My head. Let’s start with my hair, more specifically, follicle by follicle. Brown in color to match my eyes; curly like traps—I’m Black—see it now. My hair lies fluffy on my head, like a good wig for ...
www.nightmare-magazine.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
How does depression feel like? Like a rock sitting on your head. Like a portal made of broken glass, that you created. In @nightmare-magazine.com is Body? Glass, a world where you can feel every pain. But what if you could feel more than just suffering? www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/body...
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BCS #444 ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store & subscribers, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) & @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to @theignyteawards.bsky.social Winner): weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #444
Issue #444 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe and cover art by Bruce Brenneise.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
BCS #444 ebook out early @weightlessbooks.bsky.social & Kindle Store & subscribers, featuring scary stories by @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social (new Angel Azrael) & @oluwasigma.bsky.social (sequel to @theignyteawards.bsky.social Winner): weightlessbooks.com/fiction/bene... www.amazon.com/Beneath-Ceas...
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New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social and cover art by Bruce Brenneise:
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #444
Issue #444 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe and cover art by Bruce Brenneise.
weightlessbooks.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social is here! Featuring stories by Peter Darbyshire @peterdarbyshire.bsky.social and Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe @oluwasigma.bsky.social and cover art by Bruce Brenneise:
weightlessbooks.com/beneath-ceas...
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Congratulations to Fasasi Ridwan who wins the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry for RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
October 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Congratulations to Fasasi Ridwan who wins the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Speculative Poetry for RELIVING: POST TRAUMA OF THE LEKKI TOLLGATE MASSACRE strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...
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The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com
October 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The winner of the #2025IgnyteAwards for Outstanding Novella? LOST ARK DREAMING by @suyidavies.com
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is out today! Edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, with artwork by @abistevensart.bsky.social, this special issue celebrates neurodiverse creators with reprinted work from Reckoning's first 10 years. Check out the full ToC and read CG's editorial here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
October 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A CHORUS, DIVERGENT is out today! Edited by @cgaubrey.bsky.social, with artwork by @abistevensart.bsky.social, this special issue celebrates neurodiverse creators with reprinted work from Reckoning's first 10 years. Check out the full ToC and read CG's editorial here: reckoning.press/a-chorus-div...
Contract signed & I'm happy to announce that my short story, A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons, which is a sequel to my Ignyte Award winning story, will be published in a future issue of the inimitable Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. 📜🧙🏿😈
October 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Contract signed & I'm happy to announce that my short story, A Librarian's Resolution In The Land Of Demons, which is a sequel to my Ignyte Award winning story, will be published in a future issue of the inimitable Beneath Ceaseless Skies magazine. 📜🧙🏿😈
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I have a new flash story in Lightspeed!
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"
Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"
Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com
On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting - Lightspeed Magazine
Dear Dr. Erzsébet Krajcsik-Nagy, I am contacting you as a member of the general public, and not as a fellow scholar, though I must say my chosen field of art history does have certain similarities to...
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September 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I have a new flash story in Lightspeed!
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"
Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com
"On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting"
Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something.
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com
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It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”
I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!
September 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It’s funny because promoting and marketing a book in any way, shape, or form is actually NOT the author’s job. At all. It is unpaid labor we’ve been forced to do for so long the expectation has mutated like a virus into “okay now you also have to be a TikTok sensation to do this as a job.”
BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF x THE TRIALS OF APOLLO
Eshu the trickster, exiled for his rebellion, falls to earth. There, he uncovers a plot to destroy the gods and must use all of his limited power to stop it before everyone he has ever known is killed by a madman's ambition.
#questpit #f #w #q
Eshu the trickster, exiled for his rebellion, falls to earth. There, he uncovers a plot to destroy the gods and must use all of his limited power to stop it before everyone he has ever known is killed by a madman's ambition.
#questpit #f #w #q
August 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Every rejection, every rewrite request, basically every reply from Scott shows how much he values and respects the craft of everyone who submits to BCS.
As I've told him in the past, his comments are like a mini masterclass. Support BCS!
As I've told him in the past, his comments are like a mini masterclass. Support BCS!
BCS opened for submissions 17 years ago this month, July 2008, and has been open continuously since. Writing all submission replies with personalized comments.
And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.
And we're still going! Send us your great character-driven secondary-world setting stories.
Today's listing of the day is: Beneath Ceaseless Skies @bcsmagazine.bsky.social #WritingCommunity
July 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Every rejection, every rewrite request, basically every reply from Scott shows how much he values and respects the craft of everyone who submits to BCS.
As I've told him in the past, his comments are like a mini masterclass. Support BCS!
As I've told him in the past, his comments are like a mini masterclass. Support BCS!
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My novelette about a trickster god on the path of revenge is out now in Lightspeed Magazine.
Read:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
Read:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
www.lightspeedmagazine.com
July 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My novelette about a trickster god on the path of revenge is out now in Lightspeed Magazine.
Read:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
Read:
www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/a-di...
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70. SFF tends to misunderstand the role of religion in almost any given society, often either treating it as an oppressive force OR equivalent to magic. and like. it can be both. but aren't they played out? don't you wanna go for something more complex?
July 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
70. SFF tends to misunderstand the role of religion in almost any given society, often either treating it as an oppressive force OR equivalent to magic. and like. it can be both. but aren't they played out? don't you wanna go for something more complex?
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I suppose there comes a point in every project where you pile the phone, laptop, notebook, appropriate reference books, kindle, bluetooth in a big stack and then use the nunchucks on them
I like looking things up on Reddit like “affordable writing retreat advice,” because inevitably someone will say something extremely Reddit.
July 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I suppose there comes a point in every project where you pile the phone, laptop, notebook, appropriate reference books, kindle, bluetooth in a big stack and then use the nunchucks on them
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Yeah, there is a quirky dynamic where books by women are presumed to be for women and books by men are presumed to be for everyone, and honestly while there was very little interest in courting women as a customer demographic, there seems to be some rage at losing them as a built in audience.
I think there may be an argument to be made that it is harder to sell books to ONLY men, because younger men read less and women no longer accept that the male POV is the default way of viewing the world. But as the kids say, this is a skill issue, for the writing and the marketing.
July 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Yeah, there is a quirky dynamic where books by women are presumed to be for women and books by men are presumed to be for everyone, and honestly while there was very little interest in courting women as a customer demographic, there seems to be some rage at losing them as a built in audience.
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Every time I read an article like this, I think, if male novelists are so endangered, how do I know so fucking many of them? Apparently the answer is, because we're all in "genre," which is the One Simple Trick for still getting published when you're a dude.
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
Is it the end for male novelists? The lonely life of a man writing fiction in 2025
A long-overdue shift to female perspectives means male authors are being sidelined, or so says the founder of Conduit Books, a new publishing house that trades only in novels written by men. Nick Duer...
www.the-independent.com
July 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Every time I read an article like this, I think, if male novelists are so endangered, how do I know so fucking many of them? Apparently the answer is, because we're all in "genre," which is the One Simple Trick for still getting published when you're a dude.
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...