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ZamaShort

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ZamaShort is solely focused on the amazing powerhouse that is the single short story. We champion and add to the ever-growing multi-genre canon of African literature excellence and diversity.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · Dec 13

ZamaShort is a new project from StoryTime Publishing who brought you the StoryTime magazine, and the African Roar and AfroSF series of anthologies

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 1d

ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts - ZamaShort #5 'The Smell of Rain' by Libby Young over at our whatsapp channel exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

Cover image for ZamaShort #5 'The Smell of Rain' by Libby Young

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 6d

The ZamaShort Bundle Special is Live! All our stories one time. Save 24% off the retail price for the individual stories. You will be supporting our future, our authors, African literature, and read excellent stories! selfany.com/s/ZamaShort

#AfricanSFF #AfricanLit #booksky 🪐📚💙

Image showing the books in the ZamaShort Bunble:
ZamaShort #1 'Piss Corpse' by Muthi Nhlema
ZamaShort #2 ‘Summer’ by Nerine Dorman
ZamaShort #3 'The Last and Final Battle' by Zainab Omaki
ZamaShort #4 'The Clarity of Ice' by Carmelo Rafalà
ZamaShort #5 ‘The Smell of Rain’ by Libby Young
ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 8d

As per the StoryTime Publishing mandate initialised in 2007, ZamaShort continues to champion and add to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence and diversity.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 8d

The ZamaShort imprint series is solely focused on the amazing powerhouse that is the short story. We give each short story its own publication so that it may be read and enjoyed fully as a stand-alone publication.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 8d

Kobo: www.kobo.com/se/en/ebook/...
Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sindi-fair...
Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
Fable: fable.co/book/x-97891...
Thalia: www.thalia.de/shop/home/ar...
Vivlio: shop.vivlio.com/product/9789...

Sindi Fair ebook by Dare Segun Falowo - Rakuten Kobo

Read "Sindi Fair ZamaShort, #6" by Dare Segun Falowo available from Rakuten Kobo. In the mythical African Kingdom of Uju, tragedy strikes down a renown herbalist Janu with a sleeping sickness. Janu's ...

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 8d

Now Out! Get it here:

Direct from ZamaShort in our Bundle or with a Subscription: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort

Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
(Also Amazon UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, JP, BR, CA, MX, AU, IN)
Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/sind...
Libby: share.libbyapp.com/title/12357103

ZamaShort | Selfany

The ZamaShort imprint publishes excellent multi-genre single short stories by African authors, monthly.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 8d

Dare Segun Falowo is a writer in the Nigerian Weird. Their work draws on cinema, indigenous cosmologies, pulp fiction & a lived surreality. Their words have appeared in Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Dark, Baffling, Omenana, and more.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 8d

Direct from the incredibly inventive mind of Dare Segun Falowo, author of Caged Ocean Dub, this new story takes you into the fantastically imagined, layered, and nuanced, world of Uju.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 8d

Publication Day! ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social

In the mythical African Kingdom of Uju, Chief Len and his son Fren must undertake a journey to find a cure. A tale of magic, achillean romance and finding one’s true self.

#booksky #fantasy #lgbtq #AfricanSFF

Cover image of ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

Sorry that whatsapp number should be +46 76 273 53 13

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

We will continue building an independent, equitable, and diverse, platform with ZamaShort for African authors that is accessible to a world reading audience but especially also our continent.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

Threads: www.threads.com/@zama1short
And most recently Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/@zama1short

And that's our six months in brief, super busy, loads more in the pipeline.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

Socials to date: We have a whatsapp Channel whatsapp.com/channel/0029... and Group (join on request ask us here: 076-273 53 13).
Facebook: www.facebook.com/zama1short
Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/zama...
Instagram: www.instagram.com/zama1short/

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

You can also make donations there (send love) if you love what we are doing and want to support us extra, which would be most welcome.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

However, our subscriptions and bundle do offer a better price than than the individual short stories sold anywhere else. And we especially appreciate the support subscribers give us to keep going in advance.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

Our Shop: selfany.com/s/ZamaShort is live but we are only offering subscriptions and a bundle there going forward as the transaction costs of selling the individual short stories was almost more than the price of the story heh, and we refuse to charge more.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

All of which seem to be well received and we are gradually but surely building a solid platform with ZamaShort both for our authors and readers.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 10d

ZamaShort Update, Six Months!

Six months, nearly, since our first publication, to date we have published excellent stories from Muthi Nhlema, Nerine Dorman, Zainab Omaki, Carmelo Rafala, Libby Young, and next is Dare Segun Falowo.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 11d

We're on tiktok now www.tiktok.com/@zama1short, just posted a little promo vid there. Have an idea about getting round to doing some book trailers and such. If tiki tok is your jam we'll see you there!

Reposted by ZamaShort

Dare @dsfalowo.bsky.social · 13d

I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU HONEY: am so excited for you all to read this short story and enter the world of Uju. Loosely inspired by fairytales, esp. Cinderella and the myth of Persephone + a first exploration of queer romance in my ouevre.

Out October 1!

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 13d

ZamaShort 6 ‘Sindi Fair’ by Dare Segun Falowo @dsfalowo.bsky.social

In the mythical African Kingdom of Uju, Chief Len and his son Fren must undertake a journey to find a cure. A tale of magic, achillean romance and finding one’s true self.

#AfricanSFF #booksky #fantasy #lgbtq

Cover image of ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 13d

As per the StoryTime Publishing mandate initialised in 2007, ZamaShort continues to champion and add to the ever-growing canon of African literature excellence and diversity.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 13d

The ZamaShort imprint series is solely focused on the amazing powerhouse that is the short story. We give each short story its own publication so that it may be read and enjoyed fully as a stand-alone publication.

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 13d

Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...
Fable: fable.co/book/x-97891...
Thalia: www.thalia.de/shop/home/ar...
Vivlio: shop.vivlio.com/product/9789...

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 13d

Pre-Order Up, drops 1st Oct 2025
Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
(Also Amazon UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, JP, BR, CA, MX, AU, IN)
Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/sind...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/se/en/ebook/...
Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sindi-fair...

Sindi Fair (ZamaShort Book 6)

Sindi Fair (ZamaShort Book 6) - Kindle edition by Falowo, Dare Segun, Hartmann, Ivor W., Dorman, Nerine. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Sindi Fair (ZamaShort Book 6).

ZamaShort @zamashort.bsky.social · 13d

Their debut collection of stories, Caged Ocean Dub released in 2023, and is published in the US, the UK, and Nigeria. They currently live in Lagos, Nigeria.