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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Are you reading 2025 speculative fiction? Check out this short story, “The Sirangori Fey Market” by @ephraimorji.bsky.social from Issue V of our anthology. It’s now available to read on our website until December 12. 🔗 willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2025/11/19/t... #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This started out with so much promise. Can’t wait to see where it heads. Kemi Ashing-Giwa’s short stories have been such great reads. A whole novel feels like paradise.

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Allan Kaster @infinivoxsf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Pre-order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... Stories by: @ecastroianni.bsky.social @grantcollier.bsky.social @gregegansf.bsky.social Rich Larson @kyliu99.bsky.social James Morrow @trnapper.bsky.social Amal Singh Lavie Tidier Jay Werkheiser @librariangoblin.bsky.social

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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.

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Will always be grateful for the day I submitted to WTBAP? Anthology! Go read us!🙈

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

“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

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Naomi Eselojor @naomieselojor.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I’ll be teaching a workshop guys! Please like and share. ❤️

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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

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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

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

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🥹🥹❤️❤️❤️.

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

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.

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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.)

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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 😭

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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.

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

That’s my story y’all 🤭

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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.

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A.M. Tuomala @amtuomala.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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.

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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 🌞.

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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...

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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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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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.

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

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. reactormag.com/our-king-and...

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Our King and His Court - Reactor

A futuristic story about a high-ranking soldier in a criminal gang who has conflicting loyalties to his monstrous boss and that boss’s innocent young son.

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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/

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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Extraction Request by Rich Larson

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: Extraction Request by Rich Larson

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P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Finished copies are here! Part II in the Abeni’s Song trilogy. Just two weeks away. ABENI and the KINGDOM of GOLD | 4•29•25 Cover art: Michael Machira Mwangi

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

This book is so creepy I keep getting gagged with each information I receive. Just when I think I’ve read the worst thing yet something even more terrifying comes to replace it.

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Since 2024 my attention span and patience with books has dropped drastically. It’s been very depressing seeing my TBR pile up, knowing I want to experience these books, but can’t for the life of me find the joy in it.

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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Living the life of a were leopard has erased Odinaka's memories. He lives alone in a once occupied village. He meets a female shifter who shows him hiding away isn't sustainable... Thrilling action-drama by @ephraimorji.bsky.social in @kaleidotrope.bsky.social 🪐📚💙 kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Taken at Seattle University after my speaking event there. Phrases that stood out to me that day: Soft robotics, Philosopher of Trauma, Aficionado of Strange Objects. I left there with a lot to think about.

Nnedi and many copies of DEATH OF THE AUTHOR that she’d just signed.

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Kerstin Hall @kerstinhall.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Locus voting closes next Tuesday! If you enjoyed Asunder, I would appreciate you taking five minutes to vote. It’s free and easy. 😊

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Dotun Akande @dotunak.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

STORM #7 Out Today!

In this promotional piece, Ororo sits on the right shoulder of Rio’s iconic 98ft Cristo Redentor statue. She leans against Him, as though deep in conversation—goddess to God. The statue is lit from below with rich amber lights, reflecting on the embossed heart and the indented nail mark in His palm, while the moon behind His head doubles as a gleaming halo.

I like to imagine this scene framed by a rephrased line that aptly ties together the messianic storm goddess and The Messiah: “Who is this, whose very command bends the wind and stills the raging sea?”

This is just a close-up shot of the previous image.

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Love that fizzy feeling I get when I finish a story and send it to somebody else to read!

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The Spring 2025 issue of Kaleidotrope has gone live! Read a dozen new tales and more than a half dozen new poems at www.kaleidotrope.net today!

table of contents available at www.kaleidotrope.net

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

You can read my short story here! kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

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“Rosette Spots” by Ephraim N. Orji

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nengster65 🇱🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺 @nengster65.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

~ Langston Kingsley / Shady Businessman ~ now on the #Sims4 gallery - #ShowUsYourSims #ShowUsYourMaleSims *NoCC *NoDefaults *WYSIWYG Gallery ID: #nengster65 - tinyurl.com/bdddzs3j

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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Yay!!! Happy publication day to us all!! ❤️❤️❤️

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The Spring 2025 issue of Kaleidotrope contains too many amazing writers to name in a single post—even with today's surprise character count extension! www.kaleidotrope.net

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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Kaleidotrope does not accept work generated with the use of AI. I can’t and won’t police your work elsewhere, but if you’re using or championing generative AI work elsewhere, we probably don’t want to work together.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My debut novel THE DEVOURERS is a brutal queer dark fantasy about a small pack of shapeshifters migrating from Europe to the 17th c Mughal Empire, & the snarling wake their arrival creates, rippling into contemporary India. I actually earn royalties from this one:

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The Devourers by Indra Das: 9781101967539 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

For readers of Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and David Mitchell comes a striking debut novel by a storyteller of keen insight and captivating imagination. LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER •...

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

At last, you can gaze upon the gorgeous cover of the anthology I co-edited with the electrifying @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @older.bsky.social ... behold! I'm so excited about this! We've been working on "We Will Rise Again" for the past couple of years, and now it arrives in December 2025!

ook cover of WE WILL RISE AGAIN: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope, edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older. Cover background is wavy lines and a few circles against a backdrop that ombrés through deep fuschsia-ish purple, bluey green, green, and sandy orange.

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