ICYMI: We’re sending out copies of our latest anthology to speculative fiction reviewers around the world. If you’re in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, the US, UK, Canada, France, Australia or India, email us to request a copy. We can’t wait to hear your thoughts! More here 👇🏿

Alright y'all. This is finally happening. My second novel arrives on Earth Fall 2026.

“Something Cruel” is published in our latest anthology and it demonstrates that language can serve as a bridge to translate incomprehensible reality. 🔗 https://t.co/k1Ls0LERm6

Published in Strange Horizons “Faith is a Butterfly Resting on a Rotting Eye (or The Art of Faith)” is about a man living in his brother’s shadow, the gods he learns to hate and the complex art of faith. 🔗 https://t.co/F8171E7Okv

Her 2024 Nommo Award–winning “A Name is a Plea and A Prophecy” was first published in Strange Horizons and later in The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction, Volume 3. The story is now technically a novel in progress. 🔗 https://t.co/yZe4YjchL1

Author Spotlight: @asarirl 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.

In Stock at Shilitza Publishing: Issue V of WTBAP? The Anthology. This collection gathers sixteen stories that confront the fractured truth head-on. You can order the ebook (Ksh 1000) or paperback (Ksh 1950) through our publisher website. 🔗 https://t.co/Q3OHcpxLlu

Big news: The @africansfs just became a CIC! This means more resources for African SF writers: think workshops, networking, and a comprehensive database. The future just got brighter for speculative fiction on the continent 🌠 https://t.co/nm1wFKySbo

First published in Issue IV, Nonchalant is back in our 10th Anniversary Edition, a collection celebrating the standout stories that helped shape a decade of WTBAP. Copies available here:

In “Nonchalant,” Cheryl S. Ntumy builds a dystopian world through the intimate lens of a medicated woman and her detached partner, exposing what happens when society won’t let people be themselves.

Mushrooms Grow in the Dark: New story by Kevin Rigathi in Ojuju Magazine’s Halloween Issue When ancient stone pillars begin to crumble and fall across the world, they unearth that the past may have been guarding something far darker than history admits: https://t.co/c9BUmU0dps

Full story is published in Issue 2 of Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine. Read it here:

Excerpt reading: Azure Arther’s “Do The Bop Bop” by Ken Nderitu. While analog horror is usually associated with found footage on grainy VHS tapes, @thelitgal_z skillfully manages to evoke the same feeling on the page with this short. Listen here:

The full list features great selections across all categories. Seek out the winners and nominees new to you and explore their work. https://t.co/r85IgAZuuk

Many congratulations to ed Eugen Bacon (@EugenBacon) and all the contributors published in “Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction” for winning the Outstanding Creative Nonfiction award! Find it here: https://t.co/uiJRPbbno1

Congrats to Nigerian Poet Fasasi Ridwan (@Ibn_Yushau44) who won Outstanding Speculative Poetry for “Reliving: Post Trauma of the Lekki Tollgate Massacre.” Read it here: https://t.co/cCvyQmlu0X

Congratulations to Suyi Davies Okungbowa for winning Outstanding Novella with “Lost Ark Dreaming.” Find it here: https://t.co/spH475xV4P

Huge congratulations to Kenyan writer Shingai Njeri Kagunda (@Shingaibelike) who won Outstanding Novelette for “We Who Will Not Die.” Read it here: https://t.co/tNk2uT1L1x

Presented by @fiyahlitmag, the awards spotlight novels, short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, visual art and community leadership, honouring creators who represent the brightest lights in speculative fiction’s future.

Spotlight: 2025 Ignyte Awards! Huge congratulations to African writers recognised at the recently announced 2025 Ignyte Awards, which continue to celebrate excellence in speculative fiction!