@formerlykevin.bsky.social
Kenyan SFF writer. Podcaster. Artist. https://willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2021/10/08/the-two-prophets/
I have a new horror story in Ojuju Magazine's Halloween Issue.
Check out "Mushrooms Grow in the Dark"
Learn the terrifying truth connecting all pillar sites around the world, from Stonehenge to Kenya's Lothgam North to the Mudumal Megalithic Menhirs
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Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine Issue 2 is now out.
For your fix of African horror, sci-fi, and fantasy.
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We're excited to announce that Issue 2 of Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine is now live and free to read on our website!
This issue brings back familiar voices alongside striking debuts, showcasing speculative fiction in its different forms:
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Poster for our first-ever SFF quiz night presented by WTBAP
Our first SFF Quiz Night is calling, and your brainpower deserves a proper stage. This one's for all bookworms, bibliophiles and film buffs.
📍 Athena Lounge, Hurlingham | 📅 25th July | 🕒 5–10 PM
Prizes? Epic
Drinks? Sorted
DJ? Ready
Entry? Free
Register team: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/rsvp/
Foreword from Olivia on Issue 2 of WTBAP? The Magazine
Our first newsletter is live on Substack with WTBAP updates and yes, early access to Issue 2 of our magazine.
If you've already subscribed, check your mail. If you haven't, subscribe now and get the exclusives instantly!
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My story "If Memory Serves" is now available online!
In a world where memories are commodities that can be permanently taken from a person and sold to another, what does this mean for culture, relationships, identity... or even your own reality.
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Will This Be A Problem? Issue V. Edited by Olivia Kidula and Somto Ehezue. 💙📚 #AfricanSFF
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Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V paperback now up for international sales on Lulu Bookstore
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This is how I'm walking everywhere at home now and one day, im going to forget and do it in public. Thanks Kendrick.
"Ayy, I'm trippin', I'm slidin', I'm ridin' through the back like, Baow!"
Is choosing to forget trauma a human right?
Can the wholesale transfer of cultural knowledge be justified if it is sold willingly?
To what extent is memory identity? How many lost memories before your partner is a stranger?
Read "If Memory Serves" in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V
In my story, "If Memory Serves," tech designed to extract traumatic memories evolves, & a breakthrough allows any memory to be extracted & implanted in another mind.
As memories become commodities, new forms of privilege & oppression arise, reshaping culture, relationships & individual realities.
Will This Be A Problem? Issue V is out! My story "If Memory Serves" is featured in this anthology.
Check it out
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 ✨
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Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V ebook up for sale.
Shilitza Publishing
Lulu Bookstore
Amazon
And more
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Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: ISSUE V - Book Launch LIVE STREAM
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We're beyond ecstatic that one of the stories from our FIRST mag issue—The Future Ancients by Mwenya Chikwa—has been featured on this list. There are lots of other great recs in here, including 3 writers who appear in our upcoming anthology: Shingai Kagunda, Albert Nkereuweum, & Gabrielle E Harry!
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Join us for Will This Be A Problem? ISSUE V launch on Jan 31! Celebrate 10 years of WTBAP with cocktails, conversation & more.
My story, "If Memory Serves" is featured in the anthology.
📍 Athena Lounge, Olive Gardens Hotel, Hurlingham
⏰ 5–9 PM EAT | Live stream available!
Reading the news nowadays feels like someone fed the simulation sci fi books (and included too much dystopia). But seriously, so much is going on, some usually big news doesn't even register anymore. What do you mean google just casually kicked off the countdown to the age of quantum computing!?
11.12.2024 16:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This week, 10 years ago, I published 'A War of Harmony,' an urban fantasy with some ideas exploring symmetry. This morning, as if called by some unseen thread, inspiration had a new idea in the same world waiting for me. I love it when that happens.
While I dive in, read the original here:
A pull quote from Cheryl S. Ntumy's short story "Nonchalant", published in Issue IV of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology. "I'm not allowed to work (it triggers my condition), and she only works when she feels like it, so often our days are spent lying on the carpet, watching old films and making lazy love until my drugs wear off and I get too excited. Sex is supposed to be relaxing. Orgasms are taboo, an excess of pleasure discouraged."
"Orgasms are taboo, an excess of pleasure discouraged."
Read "Nonchalant" by Cheryl S Ntumy, from Issue IV of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology:
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#africansff
A pull quote from Florence Onyango's "A Guide To Okanowach", available in Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine: Issue 1. The text is imposed over a blue background, with a man on the left, a giant in the middle and a woman on the right. "To get to Okanowach, several things have to happen at once. One, it has to be on a moonless night. Two, there has to be an overcast sky. Third, you have to get there by midnight sharp. Fourth and most important of all, you must know how to haul the voices that whisper beneath whistling winds, for Okanowach is fluid, and the voices alone know how to get there. Five, you must use an ostrich’s feather to trap the specific voices that will guide you to Okanowach; if you use any other feather, you might trap some maleficent resonance."
"To get to Okanowach, several things have to happen at once."
Read "A Guide To Okanowach" by Florence Onyango here: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2024/11/05/a...
A pull quote from Franscine Machinda's "Motion Sickness", available in Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine: Issue 1. The white text is imposed over a blue background, with a man on the left, a giant in the middle and a woman on the right. "Masika was a child of death. She had been cut from her mother’s belly only minutes after her death, and as a result, her eyelids remained shut for the first three weeks of her life. Later, she would jest about how those had been the best weeks of her entire life."
"Masika was a child of death."
Motion Sickness - Franscine Machinda (Kenya)
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Me (once again) running to learn a whole new skill knowing I have story and podcast episode (months) behind schedule.
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What we are REALLY excited to share is our upcoming release! Edited by @somtoihezue.bsky.social & @dontcallmeliv.bsky.social, Issue V contains 16 original stories of fantasy, science fiction, surrealism and horror by African authors and authors of African descent living in the Diaspora ✨
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