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Gothic Fantasy | Successful Submissions | Africanfuturism Short Stories

Posted by Catherine Taylor

We’re very excited to announce the authors included in our upcoming anthology: Africanfuturism Short Stories! Earlier this year, we opened for submissions from writers across Africa and the African diaspora, in order to add fresh voices to some established and classic writing that centres visionary and speculative stories in and about Africa. The book, due to be published in mid-August this year, combines stories selected from open submissions with selected contemporary and modern stories. With a foreword and a new story by Afritopian author Minister Faust, an Introduction by 'sarungano', author and professor Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, and editor supreme and co-founder of Omenana magazine Chinelo Onwualu as Associate Editor, this new offering in the Flame Tree Gothic Fantasy series expands upon the exciting storytelling of the most multi-faceted of continents. We’re delighted to have chosen the submissions and contemporary stories below for inclusion: 

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The Floodplain Mayor by A.A. Ademola
Translocation by Busayo Akinmoju
Only Hard Life is Real Life: Revealing the Truth about Customer #584521 by Rafeeat Aliyu
T-Day by J.J. Alleson
Doll by Chidera Solomon Anikpe
Thin Ice by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
How to Read the Air by T.J. Benson
All Eyes on Me by Bella Chacha
The Last Harvest by Mwenya S. Chikwa
The Fifth Year of Observation by Kemi Cole
The Gonjon Pin by Martin Egblewogbe
The Myco-Sufi Alliance of HAWC-Man and the Dislikeable Doctor Zang by Minister Faust
Griots of the Galaxy by Andrea Hairston
The Hollowed People by T.L. Huchu
Like Stars Daring to Shine by Somto Ihezue
From Earth to Io, with Love by Adelehin Ijasan
To Rescue a Self by Arekpitan Ikhenaode
More Sea Than Tar by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
We Who Will Not Die by Shingai Njeri Kagunda
Liberty Cuts Through Terror by B.T. Karuma
August by Biram Mboob
The Sky Gardeners of Nairobi by Carol Mbugua
The Boy Dreamer by Ben Murigu
Manusura by Vanessa Musyoki
What Pushes Against This Moment by V.H. Ncube
The Friendship Bench by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
Prévoyance by Tariro Ndoro
Hiraeth by Muthi Nhlema
Matters of the Lung by C.M. Nomxolisi
Ready, Set, Onyeka Jo! by Uchechukwu Nwaka
Alpha’s Gambit by Mazi Nwonwu
The Soil Remembers Rain by Charity Ogechi
Proposition 23 by Efe Tokunbo Okogu
Sympathy by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The Last Brown Roof by Temitayo Olofinlua
Incubate by Elaine Omwango
A Is a Four-Letter Word by Hannah Onoguwe
Coming Home by Adebola Rayo
Beneath the Udara Tree by Mimi Chetachi Romanus
Swap by Femi Salami
Newborn by Kenechukwu Udoetuk
These successful submissions and stories from contemporary authors will appear alongside two extracts from novels by Kojo Laing and Tlotlo Tsamaase. 

This book will be available to buy in August 2026 via book stores, Amazon, and our website page for Africanfuturism Short Stories!

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