@byanuoluwangozi
Playwright | Literary Polymath | Historian | Founder, Akowdee Magazine and Ojuju magazine. Words in/forthcoming in: Lolwe, Brittle Paper, Bakunawa Press, Akpata Magazine, LounLoun, Jaylit and Others.
We're eager to follow up the success of last year's Black Isekai issue with more exploration of structure.
Our 40th issue is your opportunity to delve into MAGIC SCHOOLS!
More info on each coming soon. We can't wait to see what you have in store for us!
My novellete, those who dream of Flight in the city of warriors is forthcoming in this issue.
Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 18: The Afro-Fantasy Issue Stories by Khalifaziz, Makeda Braithwaite, Suzanne Paul, Anuolowa Ngozi Cover shows an African woman dressed in a traditional style
Cover Reveal: Dirty Magick Magazine Issue 18: The Afro-Fantasy Issue. If you are a reviewer and want a preview, my DMs are open.
Graphic with there cover designs that reads: Three-Lobed Burning Eye 2025 Award Eligibility, Short Fiction and lists the following: Issue 44 “Old Wells” by Thomas Ha “First Ascent” by Ruth Joffre “The Ballad of Easy Deaths” by Steve Toase “The Thing That Ate Itself” by Aliya Whiteley “Homicidal Maps” by Joe Koch “The Bathers” by Eugenia Triantafyllou Issue 45 “The Interior” by Christi Nogle “The Barrens” by Octavia Cade “Her Shadow, Nailed to the Floor” by A.C. Wise “Without Sunsets or Snow” by Mari Ness “Nacre” by E. Catherine Tobler “The Heart is Hungry Above All Things” by Avra Margariti Issue 46 “Belly Full of Eyes” by K.S. Walker “The Subject” by Brian Evenson “Untitled #5” by Nadia Bulkin “For When the Night is Behind You…” by Corey Farrenkopf “Songs Never Sung” by Premee Mohamed “The Somnambulist” by Katie McIvor
This is our award eligibility post for 2025. We published 18 short stories this year, and love every one of them. We hope you gave them a read, were suitably haunted, and will give each one consideration. And maybe the magazine too.
The cover image for the novel The Ballad of the Bone Road by A.C. Wise. The cover depicts a white hand with black nails holding a pomegranate, surrounded by red and white peonies. There are tiny skulls in the pomegranate.
My upcoming novel, Ballad of the Bone Road is now officially available for preorder! If you're so inclined, there are several options at the link below.
linktr.ee/acwise
The hunt is on! 📯🐶
There's just THREE WEEKS LEFT to submit your flash fiction! May's theme is HUNT! You have until the end of the month to submit!
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Awe was born with a horn. His father deposits him with the Chief priestess in Paradisa, the city of the gods, on the condtion that he would give the boy a proper name when the time was right.
#Africanjujuism story by @byanuoluwangozi.bsky.social
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I love this story by Timothy Mudie. It discuss organized religion in way I never thought possible.
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For my first Nommo Award eligibility season, I would be grateful if ASFS members would consider my short story, "Ibanujedayo: Origin of The Name," published in Bakunawa Press for the short story category.
You can read the story here.
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Prelude to 22, a mirror session.
“Is this the fate of sons who send themselves on exile?
To long for a home that does not want you.”
I am excited to share my Transients Magazine published poem "Nomad" about self exile and family.
Let's hope I am not too late for award eligibility season, I will appreciate if you can add my short story "Ibanujedayo: origin of the name" published in Bakunawa press to your reading list.
You can read it here.
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Jesus you are going to make me cry, thanks for giving my story a chance.
The link stopped working but this is the new one.
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Let's hope I am not too late for award eligibility season, I will appreciate if you can add my short story "Ibanujedayo: origin of the name" published in Bakunawa press to your reading list.
You can read it here.
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Five authors I've read five (or more) books by?
Pierce Brown
George R R Martin
Rick Riordan
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Octavia E. Butler
This week we’re reading stories by Wole Talabi!
First up is “Comments on Your Provisional Patent Application for an Eternal Spirit Core” in @clarkesworldmagazine.com!
Read along with us!
@wtalabi.bsky.social
#sffh #shortfiction
November’s newsletter is out. I talk about a process I love so much: draft revisions 👀
Read x Subscribe 😊
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Imagine me getting a Playwriting MFA in an ivy league college. And then I get a major deal from a big 5 Publisher. And then we get major awards and debut on bestselling list.
haha, won’t it be funny if i got into a masters program for cybersecurity or health sciences, then later do a doctorate in nursing, get a high paying job in cybersecurity (or even nursing), leave this country for good and own a house?
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So excited to see my novelette “Desperate Ark Wives” in this @havenspec.bsky.social issue. I had fun writing this rollercoaster that follows Gloria and her chaotic daughters-in-law aboard the Ark, and how they band together in a bid to stop the great biblical flood🌊 Subscribers get to read it today!
“What then shall we do? Shall we leave the wounds of our beloved nation to rot? Is the constant ravaging of our resources by savages the fate of this blessed country? How long before we are pushed off a cliff and jump into death’s warm embrace?”
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“What then shall we do? Shall we leave the wounds of our beloved nation to rot? Is the constant ravaging of our resources by savages the fate of this blessed country? How long before we are pushed off a cliff and jump into death’s warm embrace?”
lolwe.org/in-the-manne...
What is a better way of introducing myself if not with a story of mine? You can read Ibanujedayo: Origin of the name for free by clicking the link below.
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