Mwenya S. Chikwa - Future Ancient 🇿🇲

Getting some contributor's copies lately...! Fusion Fragment is up first - if you're up for a fascinating mixture of SFF short stories, I hope you give it a closer look! 💙

My cover illustration is based on the story by Cressida Roe.

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Will This Be A Problem? Issue V. Edited by Olivia Kidula and Somto Ihezue. 308 pp. Published January 4, 2025. Anthology of short African fiction. Love African SFF! I’m a huge fan. The finished quality isn’t always even, and I confess I often get grumpy about editing quali…

Will This Be A Problem? Issue V. Edited by Olivia Kidula and Somto Ihezue. hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/03/12/w...

Embracer-owned Crystal Dynamics confirms another round of layoffs The Tomb Raider developer has now made three rounds of job cuts in 2025.

Embracer-owned Crystal Dynamics confirms another round of layoffs

I want to say that I don’t know why I haven’t been writing post Clarion West Writers Workshop but that isn’t true. Not having enough to keep my mom and me afloat is really stressing me out.

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

The cover of Rien Gray's horror novella LESSER HUNGERS against a purple and blue background, accompanied by blurbs.

My horror debut LESSER HUNGERS is out today!

A haunted Chicago janitor discovers sentient mold is spreading cannibalistic urges through the city, one loving relationship at a time.

AMZ & KU: www.amazon.com/Lesser-Hunge...

Non-AMZ: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lesser-hun...

Tinker by Wen Spencer

Extremely competent chaos goblin inventor, extremely dangerous wildlife, and Pittsburg transported to an elven world. This cemented my love of urban fantasy. Tinker is an absolute favourite character, and each book expands the world enormously.

A surprise drop for your weekend reading pleasure! Check out our special reprint issue: SINNERS, SAINTS & HAINTS! Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social + @shakeemasmalls.bsky.social Cover by @goblinprincete.bsky.social

Black authors been IN these genre streets, don't let anyone say otherwise 🔥🔥🔥

The Apologists by Tade Thompson (audio) Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

Behold*! The audio version of my science fiction novella THE APOLOGISTS read by Kate Baker.

[*Or some archaism that means to listen. Heed? Hark? 🤷🏾‍♂️]

POETRY by Brishbhanu Baruah The Patience of the Equator  Quote "A cat prancing across the solar system re-arranging the planets" 10 November 2025 Strange Horizons

The Patience of the Equator 
by Brishbhanu Baruah

"A cat prancing across the solar system

re-arranging

the planets"

Link ⬇️
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#poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff

Q&A With Allen M. Steele In our [November/December issue, on sale now], Allen M. Steele concludes the story of the missing crew behind the Lemuria 7, which vanished on the moon. Read our latest interview with Allen to lear…

In our latest Q&A, find out how how Allen M. Steele's insatiable curiosity drove him turn one story about a lost spacecraft into an entire trilogy that concludes in our Nov/Dec issue
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‘We were effectively props’: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’ Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...

DEI is so 2023, apparently

This on the Future Class page on TGA website being removed...

“Not only are they discontinuing the programme, but they’ve also eliminated any way for us to claim the honour that they provided,” Checo said.

As Class of 21 💩
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3LBE Issue 46 cover featuring a beast with bloody antlers, a hooded figure with a bloody axe, and several small creatures in the glare of a dusty sun.

3LBE Issue 46 debuts today with new original short fiction of weird, wonder, and horror by K.S. Walker, Brian Evenson, Nadia Bulkin, Corey Farrenkopf, Premee Mohamed, and Katie McIvor. Read three stories online, buy the full ebook, or become a patron subscriber. www.3lobedmag.com/issue46/

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Teal textured background titled “The Future Ancients (2025)” on a parchment-style banner at the top. At the centre is the magazine cover of “Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine: Issue 1” edited by Olivia Kidula.The main text explains what the story published in the book is about. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.

Teal textured background titled “Voting Details: The Future Ancients” on a parchment-style banner at the top. At the centre is the image cover of the story “The Future Ancients” by Mwenya S. Chikwa. The main text explains the Nommo Awards voting details. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.

His short story “The Future Ancients”, published in our first magazine issue is nominated for the 2025 #nommoawards!

ASFS members, kindly consider voting for this trippy sci-fi adventure in the Short Story category. We’d be so grateful!

🔗 Read it here: willthisbeaproblem.co.ke/2024/11/05/t...

Teal textured background titled “Haunting Justice” on a parchment-style banner at the top. At the centre is the cover of the “African Ghost Story Collection (Gothic Fantasy)”, edited by Chinelo Onwualu. The main text explains what the story published in the book is about. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.

Teal textured background titled “Story Inspiration: Haunting Justice” on a parchment-style banner at the top. At the centre is the cover of the “African Ghost Story Collection (Gothic Fantasy)” edited by Chinelo Onwualu. The main text explains what inspired the writer to write this story. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.

His story “Haunting Justice” is among those published in the Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy collection. Expect legendary ghosts and spiritual healers.

🔗 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Africa...

Teal textured background titled “You Can Always Go Back” on a parchment-style banner at the top. At the centre is the cover of the first Ubwali Masterclass Issue edited by Frances Ogamba, Fiske Serah Nyirongo and Akal Mohan. The main text explains what the story published in the book is about. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.

Teal textured background titled “Excerpt: You Can Always Go Back” on a parchment-style banner at the top. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. Excerpt reads: The impact punched her unconscious. When sense returned, the water was around her, pouring inside the sinking suit through invisible cracks. The suit was lost, and her chances of surviving its valiant failure were dropping by the second. Her depleted oxygen stores flashed an alarm on her HUD. She held her breath and hit the emergency release inside the suit. The outer layer fizzed open from the neck down to her pelvis, but only slightly; allowing more water in, but gave her little room for escape. Cheeks puffed, she pried the gap wider with all her strength, forcing her head and shoulders through, only for her right leg to coil around an elastic strap.

Mwenya's most recent short fiction, “You Can Always Go Back Home,” which appears in the first Ubwali Masterclass Issue, showcases masterful world-building.

🔗 www.ubwali.com/you-can-alwa...

A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem’s Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Zambian writer Mwenya S. Chikwa set against a dark teal patterned background with wavy line patterns. Below the photo, his name, “Mwenya S. Chikwa,” is displayed in golden lettering. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, the 2025 Nommo Awards badge and a website link are placed at the bottom.

Teal textured background titled “Spotlight: Mwenya S. Chikwa" on a parchment-style banner at the top. The main text introduces him as a Zambian writer and a new voice in African speculative fiction. It highlights his published works in various publications, key award recognitions and forthcoming works. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.

Author Spotlight: Mwenya S. Chikwa (@prisoner187.bsky.social)

Meet one of the most exciting new voices in African speculative fiction! The Zambian writer’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Asimov’s, Omenana, Flame Tree Press, Ubwali Literary Magazine, WTBAP, and more.

Wonderful evening! So grateful to the amazing @xuetingni.bsky.social for making this a beautiful experience with the calm & positive energy she brought into our conversation. Thank you so very much dear @cathtrechman.bsky.social & @baharkutluk.bsky.social for organising this lovely launch event🥰

Writers are petty bunch. 🤣🤣

Hi everyone. Happy to say that I just signed my first book deal. More details coming soon ☺️❤️. I hope to be active on here as much as I can.

Silent tears. 8th.

Eat this Premier League table up 🍎

my story about a neverending cosmic apocalypse & those trying to delay it will be in issue #13! excited for y'all to read it and the other stories i'm privileged to share space with 🪐🫀

You should read your own writing it's so beautiful

It's a wonderful story with a fantastic protagonist (narrator, too)—get it!

Hey! Sort of a surprise new story day. @undertow.bsky.social is making my novelette, "Uncertain Sons," (original to the collection) available online for a short time for folks catching up on end-of-year reading. Eligible for most novelette/long fiction categories. Online until end of November!

Image of hand holding a megaphone. Overlayed text reading: Submissions open on November 1st to 30th, under the theme of Revolutions.

🚨 November submissions are OPEN! We're seeking bold, subversive fiction on:

🔁 Cycles of revolution

💥 Revolution as a starting point

🌿 Quiet revolutions & resistance

📢 Disability, class & revolution

Submit now! www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...

Medieval cities in the northern Horn of Africa (1200-1600 CE) The northern horn of Africa is home to one of the largest concentrations of urban settlements on the continent, many of which are of significant antiquity.

Medieval cities in the northern Horn of Africa (1200-1600 CE)

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