The Will This Be A Problem Anthology is back this year and we are looking for works of speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy and horror by authors from the African continent.
While we tend to gravitate toward the weirder and darker side of things, our aesthetic is always in flux. We value risks, surprises, rude shocks, and voices that haunt us long after the story is done. Be brave. Send us the stuff you never thought would get published anywhere else. Send us the thing you have to take a deep breath over before submitting or running by your critique group. We strongly encourage submissions from women, members of the LGBTQIA community, and members from other underrepresented and marginalized communities.
Here are the submission guidelines.
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Your story can be speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror or an unholy mash of any them.
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Our target length is between 2000-5000 words. However this is just a baseline, if the story is strong enough it can be longer or shorter.
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We are open to receiving stories around many themes, but we will immediately reject stories that feature any of the following:
- Graphic depictions of rape or sexual assault
- Needless brutalization of women and children
- Depictions of brutalization or abuse of people with (physical and mental) disabilities
- Graphic abuse of animals
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Send your work to willthisbeaproblem@gmail.com in doc, docx, odt or rtf formats. Do not send it in the body of the email.
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Send a small bio about yourself, what country you’re from and what name you would like the work to be published under.
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We only consider unpublished work, and we do not consider reprints (work that has been published in another magazine or on your blog or other social media) or fan fiction.
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By submitting a story the author allows Will This Be A Problem to include it in the WTBAP Anthology should it be selected.
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Submissions should primarily be in English though pieces of dialogue and the text may contain other languages.
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If your work is published somewhere else after the Anthology is released we request that you mention Will This Be A Problem as the first place of publication.
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Submissions close on the 22nd of November, 2019
The WTBAP anthology is provided for free. We do not make any money off it and thus we do not (as of yet) pay for submissions. However, this year, there will be prizes for our favourite story.
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If the winner is from Kenya, the prize will be: Ksh 3,000
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If the winner is from any other country: 30$ paid via paypal or other viable money transfer platforms.
We look forward to seeing what you come up with.
