StoryTime
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StoryTime is a micro African press dedicated to publishing fiction by emerging and established African writers. The StoryTime mandate initialised in 2007, is to champion and add to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence.
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· Dec 27
Welcome to StoryTime!
StoryTime is a micro African press dedicated to publishing fiction by emerging and established African writers. The StoryTime mandate initialised in 2007, is to champion and add to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence.
StoryTime is a micro African press dedicated to publishing fiction by emerging and established African writers. The StoryTime mandate initialised in 2007, is to champion and add to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence.
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Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.com writes that she "enjoyed the ZamaShort series" in her 2025 In Review for Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social. Many thanks Jacqui!
2025 In Review: Part Two
The second part of our reviewers' picks of 2025.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Jacqueline Nyathi of @hararereview.com writes that she "enjoyed the ZamaShort series" in her 2025 In Review for Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social. Many thanks Jacqui!
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ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Bongani Sibanda, ZamaShort #9 ‘Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise’.
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#AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
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#AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
January 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Bongani Sibanda, ZamaShort #9 ‘Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise’.
More in the thread ---⬇
#AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
More in the thread ---⬇
#AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
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Happy New Year! New year, new you, new story, publish day! ZamaShort #9 ‘Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise’ by Bongani Sibanda
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Happy New Year! New year, new you, new story, publish day! ZamaShort #9 ‘Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise’ by Bongani Sibanda
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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Massive congrats to Muthi Nhlema, ZamaShort #1 'Piss Corpse' on Afrocritik's 50 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2025. It is a great 50, he is in good company.
#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙
#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙
Afrocritik’s 50 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2025 - Afrocritik
Are our stories accessible to their primary audience? Whose interests are served by placing our stories behind paywalls, not to mention in print anthologies? By Afrocritik’s Literature Board As 2025 d...
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December 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Massive congrats to Muthi Nhlema, ZamaShort #1 'Piss Corpse' on Afrocritik's 50 Remarkable African Short Stories of 2025. It is a great 50, he is in good company.
#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙
#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙
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Happy Holidays! Everyone at ZamaShort wishes you all a lovely time and for this New Year, Pre-Orders Up and Releasing on the 1st: ZamaShort #9 'Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise' by Bongani Sibanda
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#AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
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#AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
December 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy Holidays! Everyone at ZamaShort wishes you all a lovely time and for this New Year, Pre-Orders Up and Releasing on the 1st: ZamaShort #9 'Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise' by Bongani Sibanda
More in the thread ---⬇
#AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
More in the thread ---⬇
#AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
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Excellent reviews for Muthi Nhlema, Nerine Dorman, Zainab Omaki, and Ivor W. Hartmann for ZamaShort, by the not easily impressed long-standing warrior-critic of African Literature Ikhide R Ikheloa.
On literary innovation: The new ZamaShort series of short stories edited and published by Ivor W. Hartmann
I just read the three short stories that debuted in the ZamaShort series founded by the Zimbabwean writer Ivor W.
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December 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Excellent reviews for Muthi Nhlema, Nerine Dorman, Zainab Omaki, and Ivor W. Hartmann for ZamaShort, by the not easily impressed long-standing warrior-critic of African Literature Ikhide R Ikheloa.
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Subscriber copies of ZamaShort #9 now out, please enjoy our New Year's advance release :).
(One of the perks of being a subscriber is advance releases see: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort if you'd like that too.)
(One of the perks of being a subscriber is advance releases see: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort if you'd like that too.)
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Subscriber copies of ZamaShort #9 now out, please enjoy our New Year's advance release :).
(One of the perks of being a subscriber is advance releases see: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort if you'd like that too.)
(One of the perks of being a subscriber is advance releases see: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort if you'd like that too.)
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In our ongoing quest to grow a continental readership we have halved the price for our subscriptions and bundles for these countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Benin,
December 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In our ongoing quest to grow a continental readership we have halved the price for our subscriptions and bundles for these countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Zambia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Benin,
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ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide' by T.L. Huchu, over at our WhatsApp Channel, exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
#AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
#AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
December 19, 2025 at 11:07 AM
ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide' by T.L. Huchu, over at our WhatsApp Channel, exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
#AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
#AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
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Good news for Kindle readers, starting Jan 20th 2026 all ZamaShort titles, which are always DRM-Free, will be available in Epub and PDF to download as well as the usual kindle file. Because we believe you should own what you purchase and it should be yours forever.
December 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Good news for Kindle readers, starting Jan 20th 2026 all ZamaShort titles, which are always DRM-Free, will be available in Epub and PDF to download as well as the usual kindle file. Because we believe you should own what you purchase and it should be yours forever.
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New interview out in The Johannesburg Review of Books @joburgreview.bsky.social with author Muthi Nhlema and ZamaShort Ed./Pub. Ivor W. Hartmann on his story 'Piss Corpse' and more, including an excerpt.
#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙
#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙
‘What happens when one person’s truth is another’s blank stare?’—Muthi Nhlema chats to Ivor W Hartmann about his ZamaShort short story ‘Piss Corpse’
Muthi Nhlema and Ivor W Hartmann discuss trust, inspiration, writer’s block, and Nhlema’s latest work ‘Piss Corpse’, which was selected to be the debut story for ZamaShort, a new imprint specialising ...
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December 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
New interview out in The Johannesburg Review of Books @joburgreview.bsky.social with author Muthi Nhlema and ZamaShort Ed./Pub. Ivor W. Hartmann on his story 'Piss Corpse' and more, including an excerpt.
#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙
#AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙
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Give the gift of imagination with ZamaShort!
selfany.com/s/ZamaShort
#Africanlit #AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
selfany.com/s/ZamaShort
#Africanlit #AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Give the gift of imagination with ZamaShort!
selfany.com/s/ZamaShort
#Africanlit #AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
selfany.com/s/ZamaShort
#Africanlit #AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙
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ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, ZamaShort #8 ‘The Offertory’
More in the thread (a lot more, includes essay from the author) ---⬇
#Africanlit #booksky 📚💙
More in the thread (a lot more, includes essay from the author) ---⬇
#Africanlit #booksky 📚💙
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, ZamaShort #8 ‘The Offertory’
More in the thread (a lot more, includes essay from the author) ---⬇
#Africanlit #booksky 📚💙
More in the thread (a lot more, includes essay from the author) ---⬇
#Africanlit #booksky 📚💙
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Out Now! ZamaShort #8 ‘The Offertory’ by Tabitha Wanja Mwangi
A strange offering is discovered in the church of the United Resurrection Savior’s much-revered offertory basket. Devoted parishioner and amateur sleuth Selina Kumi decides to get to the bottom of this mystery.
#booksky #AfricanLit 📚💙
A strange offering is discovered in the church of the United Resurrection Savior’s much-revered offertory basket. Devoted parishioner and amateur sleuth Selina Kumi decides to get to the bottom of this mystery.
#booksky #AfricanLit 📚💙
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Out Now! ZamaShort #8 ‘The Offertory’ by Tabitha Wanja Mwangi
A strange offering is discovered in the church of the United Resurrection Savior’s much-revered offertory basket. Devoted parishioner and amateur sleuth Selina Kumi decides to get to the bottom of this mystery.
#booksky #AfricanLit 📚💙
A strange offering is discovered in the church of the United Resurrection Savior’s much-revered offertory basket. Devoted parishioner and amateur sleuth Selina Kumi decides to get to the bottom of this mystery.
#booksky #AfricanLit 📚💙
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ZamaShort #8 ‘The Offertory’ by Tabitha Wanja Mwangi
A strange offering is discovered in the church of the United Resurrection Savior’s much-revered offertory basket. Devoted parishioner and amateur sleuth Selina Kumi decides to get to the bottom of this mystery.
#booksky #AfricanLit 📚💙
A strange offering is discovered in the church of the United Resurrection Savior’s much-revered offertory basket. Devoted parishioner and amateur sleuth Selina Kumi decides to get to the bottom of this mystery.
#booksky #AfricanLit 📚💙
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
ZamaShort #8 ‘The Offertory’ by Tabitha Wanja Mwangi
A strange offering is discovered in the church of the United Resurrection Savior’s much-revered offertory basket. Devoted parishioner and amateur sleuth Selina Kumi decides to get to the bottom of this mystery.
#booksky #AfricanLit 📚💙
A strange offering is discovered in the church of the United Resurrection Savior’s much-revered offertory basket. Devoted parishioner and amateur sleuth Selina Kumi decides to get to the bottom of this mystery.
#booksky #AfricanLit 📚💙
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Black Friday is every day at ZamaShort, we have already priced our publications as low as they can go for you. The only discounts we can offer under the retail price are with our subscriptions and bundles sold by us directly here: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort
ZamaShort | Selfany
The ZamaShort imprint publishes excellent multi-genre single short stories by African authors, monthly.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Black Friday is every day at ZamaShort, we have already priced our publications as low as they can go for you. The only discounts we can offer under the retail price are with our subscriptions and bundles sold by us directly here: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort
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November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Plug for Libby Young's The Smell of Rain! Bc apropos
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Plug for Libby Young's The Smell of Rain! Bc apropos
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ZamaShort warmly welcomes the excellent and highly accomplished Fadzai Simango to the ZamaShort family! Fadzai has joined us to narrate our stories into audio books.
November 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
ZamaShort warmly welcomes the excellent and highly accomplished Fadzai Simango to the ZamaShort family! Fadzai has joined us to narrate our stories into audio books.
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The Smell of Rain x Libby Young
The Smell of Rain x Libby Young
28 pp. September 1, 2025, Storytime Publishing. Short fiction. Something of the feel, atmosphere, tenor of this story stayed with me for many days after I read it; I feel it even now, writing about…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The Smell of Rain x Libby Young
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ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social , over at our whatsapp channel exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
#booksky #fantasy #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
#booksky #fantasy #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social , over at our whatsapp channel exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
#booksky #fantasy #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
#booksky #fantasy #AfricanSFF 🪐📚💙
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ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author T.L. Huchu, ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide'.
More in the thread ---⬇
#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author T.L. Huchu, ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide'.
More in the thread ---⬇
#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
More in the thread ---⬇
#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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🎃Happy Halloween and Publish Day of the ZamaShort Halloween Special: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights prequel story) Now Out! Bwahahaha!🎃
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#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
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#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🎃Happy Halloween and Publish Day of the ZamaShort Halloween Special: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights prequel story) Now Out! Bwahahaha!🎃
More in the thread ---⬇
#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
More in the thread ---⬇
#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙