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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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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
What? You mean we are this close to close the gap? 16%! 👇
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Are you looking for 2025 fiction? Try this short story, “Something Cruel” by @gabbyharry.bsky.social from Issue V of our anthology. Free access on our website until Dec 12. 🔗 willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2025/11/19/s... #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
Quote graphic from Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology set on a background has a textured reddish tone with decorative speech-mark elements. The text reads: Minika crushes white chalk into powder in her left hand, muttering an incantation. She stretches her hand out and lets the wind blow the powder away. When the last of the powder is gone, the tip of her finger follows, dissolving into dust. The wind carries her hand and arm and shoulder, until her whole body is swirling in the warm breeze, the day’s last breaths.

Attribution below: 

Something Cruel

Gabrielle Emem Harry 

Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V

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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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...
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the philosophy of scars: designing how the body meets the world
on interruptions and continuations.
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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.
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
so excited to have a story in the wrath month anthology! 🎉
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Read #AfricanSFF!🫵🏾 @africansffhype.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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-...
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Vessels and Warnings - Apparition Literary Magazine
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
omg this was one of my first stories 🥺
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
💜💜💜
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
thank you so much for this lovely reviewwwww 🥺
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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...
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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…
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 04/02/2025
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. appliedafricansf.com/2025/02/01/c...
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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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James A Lyons @jalwrites.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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.
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Aaron Cole has a Book Deal! @theaaroncole.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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.
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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 02/02/2025
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
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E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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/...
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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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Somto Ihezue @somtoihezue.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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/
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast. This page: We Begin Where Infinity Ends by Somto Ihezue
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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
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Strange Horizons
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
still really really happy that my story made this list :)
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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 🍊✨ www.ikoafrica.com/user/read/67...
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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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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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!
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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...
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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.
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
My short fiction recs for Oct-Nov are up! With stories from Sagan Lee, @gabbyharry.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @wnwagner.bsky.social @thomasha.bsky.social @emmajgibbon.bsky.social @spencerwriting.bsky.social L.M. Guay-- itsajumble.blogspot.com/2024/12/shor...
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Short fiction recs! Oct-Nov 2024
The winter solstice is past, Christmas and New Year’s are coming. In this brief breath before the major holidays, perhaps you’ll have time...
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
thanks so much again for including my story in this great list!
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
i love this story so much!
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
i will not 💀
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
finished revising what used to be the most tedious section of my novel and it wasn’t even that bad? i expected it to be excruciating to read and i genuinely didn’t hate it. wow.
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
will i finish revising this novel this year? we can only hope
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
here with another award eligibility post for my story “faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye” which is out in @strangehorizons.bsky.social ! this is my favourite part of the story :)
"Belief in a god is a roundabout belief in yourself. That a cry, a plea, a word from you, is enough to move someone who can move something. Who can shift the ground on your behalf, make it smoother for the sake of your own two mortal feet. It is the belief that for the sake of your tears, rain will fall. A conviction that for the reason of your anger alone, lightning will drop down from the sky on a clear day and strike the heart of one who has hurt you. The god you choose to serve is a mirror, an echo, your own hand over your heart, drumming a steady soothing beat. What we do here is not in the name of Ndia, in the name of any god. It is in the name of these people. For the sake of their faith.
Faith is nothing but concentrated hope, and hope is the lie which strengthens itself until it hardens into truth. So we pick a lie, and mould it into truth. That moulding is the art of faith. I am not ashamed of the work of my hands."
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
thank you so much dare 🥺
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
and it’s an INCREDIBLE book!
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Kribby&Finn @kribbynfinn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Do yourself a favor and read this short story. 💕 I’m ready to make offerings to Adeh myself today.
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Steven Underwood @blaqueword.blacksky.app · 14/11/2024
Black people deserve to be read and to write our stories in our voice (NYT best sellers or otherwise). I made a Starter Pack of Black Authors who you can support, share, engage and loosely follow during and between book tours. Hit Follow All. #addtoBlackSky #AddtoBookSky go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
quick reminder that this story is eligible for all the awards so please take a second to read the gospel of our lord and savior adeh today 🫵🏾 t.co/4aR0QXKCPe
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http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/faith-is-a-butterfly-resting-on-a-rotting-eye-or-the-art-of-faith/
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Nkereuwem Albert @nkereuwxm.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
November’s newsletter is out. I talk about a process I love so much: draft revisions 👀 Read x Subscribe 😊 open.substack.com/pub/nkereuwe...
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com · 13/11/2024
fresh bats flying your way from the watery depths! spotlighting stories by @angelaliu.bsky.social, @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social, Natasha King, & @gabbyharry.bsky.social 🦇⚡ not signed up for my weekly weirdo letter? you should still check out these stories! here's the link
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a shadow, a scratch, a fang, a squirm
Oh hi! Check out these cool pebbles I found.
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
read somto's (very fun) story!
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
i have one story eligible for awards this year so please consider "faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye" (in @strangehorizons.bsky.com, my short story about a man living in his brother's shadow, the gods he learns to hate and the complex art of faith! strangehorizons.com/fiction/fait...
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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…
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
i have one story eligible for awards this year so please consider "faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye" (in @strangehorizons.bsky.com, my short story about a man living in his brother's shadow, the gods he learns to hate and the complex art of faith! strangehorizons.com/fiction/fait...
strangehorizons.com
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…
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
thanks plangdi 🥺
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Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
I love this story by @gabbyharry.bsky.social so much. It's a tale of faith and doubt, of gods and the cruelties done in their names. A tale about truth and lies, and what humans need to believe. Brilliant strangehorizons.com/fiction/fait...
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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…
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Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe is querying! @oluwasigma.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
As if it wasn't hard enough to be a writer from Nigeria...😔
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Dare @dsfalowo.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
hi. Dare Segun Falowo, here. I'm author of Caged Ocean Dub and many other things. Looking for the spec fic arm of this here site. Looking forward to wonderful new things.
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Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN SEPTEMBER 2024!!! Up to novella, indie okay, originals only please. Reply with the title, author, and a link to read and/or purchase and I'll get it on my list. Here's August for more info/context: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...
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Some Queer Short SFF - August 2024 | Charles Payseur
Get more from Charles Payseur on Patreon
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Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
so excited to share that my story “faith is a butterfly resting on a rotting eye” is out today 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 🦋☠️🌊🌬️ t.co/4aR0QXKCPe
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http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/faith-is-a-butterfly-resting-on-a-rotting-eye-or-the-art-of-faith/
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