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Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social · Nov 25
Awards Eligibility Post!

2025 has been an incredible year for us at WTBAP. We released our fifth anthology and second digital magazine, and all the stories are eligible for SFF awards. If you’re nominating or voting this season, please keep our work in mind.

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A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem? outlining the publication’s 2025 award eligibility set on a dark blue cosmic pattern with teal accents. The heading reads: Will This Be a Problem? 2025 Award Eligibility, For Your Consideration. Sections list eligible categories: - Anthology: Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, edited by Somto Ihezuo and Olivia Kidula (January 2025) - Magazine: Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine: Issue 2, edited by Olivia Kidula (July 2025) - Artist: Peter Marco - Novelette: Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth by Peter Nena (Issue V), and Babies Don’t Grow in People by Peter Nena (Issue 2) The WTBAP logo appears at the top, the Shilitza Publishing Group logo appears at the bottom left, and a red button with WTBAP’s website link sits near the bottom centre.
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Here’s work published by Rutendo Chidzodzo in 2025. The Zimbabwean writer’s work is eligible in short fiction categories, so if you’re nominating or voting this awards season, we’d be grateful for your support.

Link below.

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A promotional graphic set on a beige background with subtle cosmic illustrations and teal accents titled “Rutendo Chidzodzo | Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration” The image lists one short story published in 2025: I’m Home, Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V, January 2025 Main text reads: A brief, second-person narrative of on grief and transformation. The story follows a girl stolen by water spirits and the mother who grieves silently and prays for her return. What unfolds is less a rescue tale than an aching reflection on how encounters with forces beyond the familiar can alter a person, returning homewith edges that no longer fit the old container. The play with second person perspective doubles down on the aspect that this is you in the story. It puts you in the driver’s seat and forces your hands and legs to move along with the characters.
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
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@litgalz.bsky.social’s horror short published in our second magazine issue is eligible for awards this season! Please take a moment to read and vote for it in the relevant categories if you haven’t already.

Link below

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A promotional graphic set on a pinkish background with teal accents and subtle cosmic illustrations titled “Azure Arther | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration" The image lists one short fiction work: Do The Bop Bop, Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine, July 2025. Main text reads: While analog horror is usually associated with found footage on grainy VHS tapes, Arther skillfully manages to evoke the same feeling on the page with a short that may cause parents to take a second look at just what their children are watching, especially when it seems like the world as we know it is ending. Bop Bop!
January 28, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Honored to see Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology on The 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot for!!! Grateful to all the talented African writers who trusted us with their stories and made this anthology a reality. And a huge congratulations to other recognized works👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Superior Achievement in an Anthology Allingham, LCW and Eno, River — Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts (Speculation Publications) Armiento, Isabel, ed. — One Bad Night & Other Stories (Aardvark Book Club) Bissett, Carina, ed — Fractured Reveries: A Storied Imaginarium Salon (Storied Imaginarium) Day, Julie C.; Bissett, Carina; and Gidney, Craig Laurance, eds. — Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology (Essential Dreams Press) Golden, Christopher and Keene, Brian — The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand (Gallery Books) Ihezue, Somto and Kidula, Olivia — Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology (Shilitza Publishing) Kulski, Kristy Park — Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora (Bad Hand Books) Murray, Lee and Jeffery, Dave — This Way Lies Madness: Stories from the Edge of Darkness (Flame Tree Publishing) Pascale, Elaine — Darkness Most Fowl (The Godmother of Horror Press) Ryan, Lindy and Wytovich, Stephanie M., ed. - HOWL: An Anthology of Werewolves from Women-in-Horror (Black Spot Books)
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Here’s what you need to know about @shingai-be-like.bsky.social's short fiction published in 2025. The Kenyan writer would appreciate your consideration in the relevant categories this award season. Link below.

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Award eligibility graphic for Shingai Kagunda’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a dark blue background with subtle cosmic illustration and teal and orange accents. The title reads: Khaya Maseko | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists Acceptance, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: In this haunting story, a young girl learns a disturbing secret about those in power and ponders this truth as she grows up to be a journalist and becomes exhausted by reporting on the never-ending violence and exploitation in our society. Kagunda likens the vices of corruption, violence and war to parasitic creatures living under the skins of Kenyan politicians, transferred over to them by the white colonizers. A story that reminds readers about the importance of holding onto our stories, and of oral tradition.
January 27, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Spotlight: 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot

We’re so thrilled to see Issue V of Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology on the 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot for Superior Achievement in an Anthology!

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January 27, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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Here’s what you need to know about Andrew C. Dakalira’s short fiction published in 2025. The Malawian writer’s work is eligible in the short story categories this award season, so if you’re nominating or voting, we’d be grateful for your support. Link below.

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Award eligibility graphic for Andrew Dakalira’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. Set on a purple and teal cosmic design with planets and stars. The title reads: Andrew Dakalira | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists Ash Baby, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: Offers a clever reimagining of the Biblical story of Job as a never-ending chain of cruelty and endless victims. A story that feels almost cinematic in its scale: a cosmic battle cracking open reality like a windowpane hit by too much light. Dakalira’s reverence for African spiritual traditions sits beneath the chaos, reminding you that the supernatural in our stories is rarely a departure from belief but an extension of it.
January 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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And here's the BSFA longlisted essay that my editor @danhartland.bsky.social and I laboured over:

Strange Horizons - Collective Dreaming: The Schrödinger’s Cat Approach to Framing Futures By Jacqueline Nyathi

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January 26, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Proud to be one of the African creators on this list 💪🏾🌍💫
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Spotlight: @bsfa.bsky.social Awards Longlist!

We are delighted to have 2 entries on this year’s BSFA awards longlist, courtesy of Peter Nena's novelette and Peter Marco's artwork! A big thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congrats to all African creators recognised.

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A promotional graphic set in a dark blue background with wavy line patterns. At the centre, inside a circular frame, bold text reads “Spotlight: African Works Longlisted for the 2026 BSFA Awards”. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. The overall design highlights a spotlight theme. Dark blue textured background with the heading “Spotlight: African Works Longlisted for the 2026 BSFA Awards” on a red banner. The main text reads: The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) has announced the longlist for the BSFA Awards, recognising work published in 2025. The list includes titles by African writers and artists, and Will This Be A Problem? is delighted to have two entries longlisted this year. Peter Nena’s Babies Don’t Grow in People has been longlisted for Best Shorter Fiction, while Peter Marco’s Grasps of the Forgotten has been longlisted for Best Artwork. Presented annually since 1970, these are fan-voted awards that not only seek to honour the most worthy examples in each category, but also to promote the genre of science fiction and get people reading, talking about and enjoying all that contemporary science fiction has to offer. The awards are voted on by members of the BSFA and by the members of this year’s Eastercon, the national science fiction convention, held since 1955. Longlists comprise all works nominated by at least one BSFA member. Voting is open to all BSFA members, who may select up to four works per category, and closes on February 19. Winners will be announced at this year’s Eastercon, Iridescence, taking place on April 3-6, at the Hilton Lanyon Place and the Birmingham Metropole. Thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congratulations to all who made the categories. We’re honoured to be in such great company. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
January 26, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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Spotlight: @bsfa.bsky.social Awards Longlist!

We are delighted to have 2 entries on this year’s BSFA awards longlist, courtesy of Peter Nena's novelette and Peter Marco's artwork! A big thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congrats to all African creators recognised.

#AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
A promotional graphic set in a dark blue background with wavy line patterns. At the centre, inside a circular frame, bold text reads “Spotlight: African Works Longlisted for the 2026 BSFA Awards”. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom. The overall design highlights a spotlight theme. Dark blue textured background with the heading “Spotlight: African Works Longlisted for the 2026 BSFA Awards” on a red banner. The main text reads: The British Science Fiction Association (BSFA) has announced the longlist for the BSFA Awards, recognising work published in 2025. The list includes titles by African writers and artists, and Will This Be A Problem? is delighted to have two entries longlisted this year. Peter Nena’s Babies Don’t Grow in People has been longlisted for Best Shorter Fiction, while Peter Marco’s Grasps of the Forgotten has been longlisted for Best Artwork. Presented annually since 1970, these are fan-voted awards that not only seek to honour the most worthy examples in each category, but also to promote the genre of science fiction and get people reading, talking about and enjoying all that contemporary science fiction has to offer. The awards are voted on by members of the BSFA and by the members of this year’s Eastercon, the national science fiction convention, held since 1955. Longlists comprise all works nominated by at least one BSFA member. Voting is open to all BSFA members, who may select up to four works per category, and closes on February 19. Winners will be announced at this year’s Eastercon, Iridescence, taking place on April 3-6, at the Hilton Lanyon Place and the Birmingham Metropole. Thank you to everyone who nominated us, and congratulations to all who made the categories. We’re honoured to be in such great company. The WTBAP logo appears at the top, and a website link is placed at the bottom.
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Zimbabwean writer Lucille Sambo has two stories published in our anthology and magazine, both eligible in the short story categories this awards season. If you’re nominating or voting, we’d be grateful for your support. Links below.

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Award eligibility graphic for Lucille Sambo’s 2025 short fiction published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a purple and teal cosmic design with subtle planets and stars. The image lists two published short stories: The Herd, published by Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine: Issue 2, July 2025. Main text reads: A thrilling horror short which makes for a magnificent entry in the canon of African horror. Goats have been a long-time staple of the horror genre, but Sambo has found ways to make them feel wholly new and deeply disquieting. Scales and Arabesques, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: The distance between that far-away future where they talk of the present day as the ancient past and now is contained only within the bounds of our imagination. A story where characters begin to perceive the unseen realities that coexist within and beyond the ordinary, when a Zimbabwean ballerina in Paris has a surreal encounter with an alien.
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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Author Spotlight: @yvettel.bsky.social

Get to know more about revered Zimbabwean writer and Tin House scholar Yvette Lisa Ndlovu. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, and there’s more to come.

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A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem’s Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Zimbabwean writer Yvette Lisa Ndlovu set against a dark orange patterned background with wavy line patterns. Below the photo, her name is displayed in teal lettering. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and the website link placed at the bottom. Orange textured background titled “Spotlight: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu” on an old parchment-style banner at the top. The main text reads: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu (BA, MFA) is an award-winning Zimbabwean sarungano (storyteller), editor and scholar. The Drinking from Graveyard Wells author writes AfroSurreal, literary horror and magical realist fiction that focuses on the experiences of Black women. Ndlovu is the co-founder of the Voodoonauts Summer Fellowship, which supports Black SFF writers worldwide. She earned her BA at Cornell University and her MFA at UMass Amherst. She is the Newhouse Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Wellesley College, and has also taught at UMass Amherst, Clarion West Online and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. Her work has been supported by major fellowships and workshops, including Tin House Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers Workshop and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. Her novel manuscript-in-progress was selected by George R. R. Martin for the Worldbuilder Scholarship. She is the recipient of the 2023 Philip Freund Prize for Creative Writing, the 2017 George Harmon Coxe Award for Poetry, the 2020 fiction prize from Columbia Journal’s Womxn History Month Special Issue and the 2021 Black Warrior Review Fiction Contest. She has also received a Miles Morland Foundation Writing Scholarship to support her second book and is a 2025 finalist for the DAG Prize for Literature. Her work has been anthologised in the World Fantasy Award–winning Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 and the NAACP Award–nominated Africa Risen (Tor). Her fiction has also appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Tor.com, Fantasy Magazine, Columbia Journal, FIYAH Literary Magazine, Lightspeed, Rosarium Publishing, Will This Be A Problem? and elsewhere. She is currently working on a novel. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and a website link placed at the bottom.
January 23, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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Here’s a list of @gabbyharry.bsky.social's short fiction in 2025 and where to find each piece. If you’re nominating this award season, we truly appreciate your time and consideration. Links below

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January 22, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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Here is work published by Sierra Leone’s Victor Forna in 2025, and where to find it. If you're nominating this award season, for your consideration are his two short stories.

Links below.

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Award eligibility graphic for Victor Forna’s 2025 short stories published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a dark teal background with subtle cosmic illustration and orange accents. The title reads: Victor Forna | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists the following: Bullets & Blossoms, Isele Magazine Quarterly / Ephemeral Moments / Issue 13, April 2025 Main text reads: An experiment inspired by a real-life incident. The issue explores the fleeting beauty of life’s impermanence. Mr. Original Swag, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025 Main text reads: Follows a flamboyant otherworldly being who will dance you out of the world. He offers an escape from the mundane, but at a steep price. The gods neither care about nor hate us but simply toy with us for their amusement. Through a TV show held somewhere in between space and time, an unfortunate contestant laments the side effects of cutting deals with these immortal beings that defy human understanding.
January 21, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Author Spotlight: @plangdineple.bsky.social

Get to know more about award-winning Nigerian writer and editor Plangdi Neple. Explore his work, which has appeared in numerous publications, including the short story "Non-Remembrance”, in our second magazine issue.

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A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem’s Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Nigerian writer Plangdi Neple set against a purple patterned background with wavy line patterns. Below the photo, his name is displayed in teal lettering. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and the website link placed at the bottom. Purple textured background titled “Spotlight: Plangdi Neple” on an old parchment-style banner at the top. The main text reads: Plangdi Neple is an acclaimed Nigerian speculative fiction writer and co-editor at Anathema: Spec from the Margins. His work largely draws inspiration from Nigerian myth, folklore and tradition. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Pilgrims, Anathema, Omenana, FIYAH, Baffling, Cast of Wonders, Uncharted Magazine, Translunar Traveler’s Lounge, African Writer Magazine, Flame Tree’s Werewolf Short Stories, The Deadland’s Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Fiction, and Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine, among others. Plangdi is a Voodoonauts Fellow, a Clarion West alumnus and a co-recipient of the Milford 2024 Bursary. He is also the recipient of the Brave New Weird Award for his story Not All Your Bones Are Yours. His story Bodies of Sand and Blood (Cast of Wonders) was shortlisted for the 2025 Nommo Awards in the Best Short Story category. Other notable works include Hidden Figures (Omenana), Oasis (Phano), Happy Dancing Rejects (Flame Tree Publishing), How to Rob a Bullion Van (Baffling), Full, Empty Houses (Kaleidotrope), Of Dreams, Wires and Nightmares (Translunar Travelers Lounge) and Non-Remembrance (Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine). His upcoming short story in Strange Pilgrims explores revenge, ghost children, queerness, and angry women. When he’s not reading, Plangdi can often be found watching old films or working through complex engineering problems. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and the website link placed at the bottom.
January 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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Here’s what you need to know about Khaya Maseko’s short fiction published in 2025. The South African writer and poet would appreciate your consideration in the relevant categories this award season.

Link below.

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Award eligibility graphic for Khaya Maseko’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a dark teal background with subtle cosmic illustration and green accents. The title reads: Khaya Maseko | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists Acceptance, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: A lyrical, time-distortion tale about an artificially created freedom fighter trapped between dimensions. This high punk sci-fi examines the idea of revolution and violent resistance as the only solution to increasingly oppressive systems that target vulnerable populations. It has stylistically brilliant future-building, complete with cool tech and anti-capitalistic rebellion.  Follow along as “Acceptance” destroys time itself, removing the present from the past, the many versions of reality colliding, co-existing, co-forming simultaneously.
January 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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Today we’re highlighting Matseliso Motsoane, a writer and researcher from Lesotho. Take a moment to read her story, and if you’re nominating this award season, we’d appreciate your support in the short story category.

Link below.

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Award eligibility graphic for Matseliso Motsoane’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a purple background with subtle cosmic illustration and olive green accents. The title reads: Matseliso Motsoane | Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists Baby Potion, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: Circumstances force a woman to reexamine the seemingly commonplace details of her life, uncovering truths that force her to reconcile with a reality she was never meant to understand. Lebo, desperate to conceive, moves through a world where whispers travel fastest through the hiss of hairdryers and the rhythm of braids being tightened. Motsoane turns the beauty salon into a kind of informal intelligence agency, a place where truth, suspicion, and female intuition collide. Is it her husband? Her mother-in-law? A rival woman meddling with biology or magic? The story carries the intrigue of a domestic thriller but lands somewhere more surprising, more playful, and more thoughtful than the setup promises.
January 19, 2026 at 7:50 AM
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Kenyan writer Alex Tamei makes his speculative fiction debut with his first-ever short story, inspired by his love for his sister. It is eligible in the short story categories this awards season, so if you’re nominating or voting, we’d be grateful for your support. Link below.

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Award eligibility graphic for Alex Tamei’s 2025 short story published by Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology. The design is set on a dark teal cosmic design with planets and stars. The title reads: Alex Tamei | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration The graphic lists A Song of Ruin, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: Nairobi is now Ole Nyrobi as it once was before the sun fell. This story of post-apocalyptic Nairobi contains a society that has gone back to its traditional ways after anarchy destroyed our current reality. And the fight for survival becomes personal as a young man must brave the ruins of a fallen city in search for answers, and a cure for his sister’s mysterious illness. As his understanding of the world deepens, he begins to uncover something more beneath the surface. Follow along as he ventures into the dangerous ruins of old Nairobi, risking everything for answers.
January 17, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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At Page & Palette’s panel discussion, Peter Nena spoke about his expectations for the Kenyan creative industry, and why a robust reading culture is essential to it. If we want better stories, art or ideas, we have to value the habits that help shape them.
January 17, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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A look at Peter Nena’s award-eligible work from 2025. Known for horror, the Kenyan writer also stepped into sci-fi without losing his flair for attention-grabbing titles. Any nominations are greatly appreciated. Links below

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A promotional graphic set on a teal and green background with layered planet imagery and teal accents titled “Peter Nena | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration” The image lists two published novelettes: Novelette - Babies Don’t Grow In People, Will This Be A Problem? The Magazine | Issue 2, July 2025 Main text reads: This future world unravels its science and society with meticulous form in this stunning novelette that readers will find themselves thinking long after the story’s close. Why Donkeys Have 44 Teeth, Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V, January 2025 Main text reads: A young boy named Jack has repeated dreams of a donkey with human-like hands tapping on his window, calling to him to come out and play. Children in his neighborhood have disappeared, and thanks to his sister urging him to consider why donkeys have so many teeth if they are herbivores, he becomes convinced that his dream isn’t a dream and that the donkey is to blame.
January 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Here’s what @formerlykevin.bsky.social published in 2025 and where you can find his award-eligible gems. We’d be so grateful if you took a moment to read them, share them with people who might enjoy them, and vote if you haven’t already. Links below.

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A promotional graphic set on a beige background with teal accents and subtle planet illustrations titled “Kevin Rigathi | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration" The image lists two published short stories: Mushrooms Grow in the Dark, published by Ojuju Magazine, October 2025. Main text reads: Details the catastrophic unearthing of ancient stone structures around the world as they begin to crumble. These monuments may have served a far darker purpose than history remembers. If Memory Serves, published in Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology: Issue V, January 2025. Main text reads: A corporation which mass-produces a memory-wiping process profits by erasing memories but then selling them as luxuries to the rich and the privileged. The more people wipe memories, though, the less they remember. And the less they remember, the less they become.
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Author Spotlight

Get to know more about Zimbabwean Afrosurrealist writer Rutendo Chidzodzo, a Clarion West & Tin House alum. Her work has appeared across multiple publications, and there’s more to come.

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A promotional graphic for Will This Be A Problem’s Author Spotlight. The design features a circular photo of Zimbabwean writer Rutendo Chidzodzo set against a dark orange patterned background with wavy line patterns. Below the photo, her name is displayed in teal lettering. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and the website link placed at the bottom. Orange textured background titled “Spotlight: Rutendo Chidzodzo” on an old parchment-style banner at the top. The main text reads: Rutendo Chidzodzo is a Zimbabwean writer with roots across the world and a longstanding love for the fantastical. Her work has appeared in Isele Magazine, The Shallow Tales Review, Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology, Flame Tree’s African Ghost Stories (Gothic Fantasy), The Deadlands’ Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Fiction 2024, Strange Horizons and elsewhere. She is an alumna of Clarion West, Tin House, the Voodonauts Workshops and the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s MFA in Fiction program. She previously earned a BA in Creative Writing and Film Studies in Iowa and is a recipient of the 2020 Ladies’ Literary Club Award, the Paul Engle Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, Ocean Vuong’s Rose Fellowship and 2023 Best of a Shallow Year Award (fiction) by The Shallow Tales Review. Rutendo’s writing has also been longlisted for the 2025 Isele Short Story Prize, shortlisted for Black Warrior Review’s 2024 Fiction Contest and mentioned in Reactor Magazine’s June 2025 Must Read Short Speculative Fiction list. Notable works include works include When Rain Clouds Gather (Flame Tree Publishing, Deadlands), The Place of the Rainbow (Isele), God Resides inside a Warumart (The Shallow Tales Review), Let Sleeping Hyenas Lie (Strange Horizons), I’m Home (Will This Be A Problem?) and Man Plans, God Laughs. She is currently working on The Dead Are Too Loud, a surreal short story collection exploring the lives of Zimbabwean immigrants across the diaspora. The WTBAP logo appears at the top and a website link placed at the bottom.
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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This is an insightful read, that touches upon film culture in Senegal, Kenya, and the USA, among others. Interesting reading - I'm tempted to find some of the named films on Netflix.
January 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Everything you need to know about Tonny Ogwa’s 2025 work, and where to find it. The Kenyan writer would appreciate your consideration in the categories he’s eligible in.

Links below.
A promotional graphic set on a blue background with layered book imagery and neon green and teal accents titled “Tonny Ogwa | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration” The image lists one short story and two nonfiction articles published in 2025: Short Fiction - Main text reads: The Clans, Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V, January 2025 An alternative reality in which the Luo people of Kenya kicked out the missionaries that were sent to their ancestral lands before the arrival of the white man’s armies. Nonfiction - This is how I remember you, The Republic, August 2025 An Interrogation of Kenyan Cinema: Why Our Films are So Forgettable, Sinema Focus, March 2025
January 14, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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This marked Azara Tswanya’s first foray into speculative fiction, and it was a real treat. The Nigerian writer’s work is eligible in short story categories, so if you’re nominating or voting this awards season, we’d be grateful for your support.

Link below.

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A promotional graphic set on a reddish pink background with layered book imagery and teal accents titled “Azara Tswanya | 2025 Award Eligibility – For Your Consideration” The image lists one short story published in 2025: Short Fiction - Main text reads: The Market of Memories, Will This Be A Problem? The Anthology | Issue V, January 2025 The poor are forced to sell their memories, their associations, and their experiences for crumbs, while the rich gorge on their stories with a collector’s entitlement. It’s a story that forces us to grapple with how malleable identity may be, the potential for technological interference, and how these advancements show up in interpersonal bonds. What we remember, or fail to remember, can alter our reality, who we are, and our relationships.
January 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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Here's what Zambian writer @prisoner187.bsky.social published in 2025. If you enjoy his work, he’d be grateful for a nomination in the short fiction categories and any awards in the nonfiction/essay category as well.
January 13, 2026 at 10:20 AM