Hussani Abdulrahim
@hussani14.bsky.social
Writer, writer, writer, writer...
Happy Publish Day Rafeeat Aliyu! ZamaShort #14 ‘Descendants of Balance’ Oronsen, not quite human, not quite spirit. Newly ensconced in the royal household she becomes aware of a danger that could destroy all the beings of the Forest she knows and loves. #fantasy #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚
ZamaShort #14 'Descendants of Balance' by Rafeeat Aliyu
ZamaShort #14 'Descendants of Balance' by Rafeeat Aliyu
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Spotlight: 2026 shortlisted writers In the run up to our winners announcement on the 6th June, have a closer look at our amazing shortlisted writers for 2026! More spotlights will be coming out later this week. @hussani14.bsky.social
An international panel of judges has shortlisted 25 writers from 14 countries for the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, selected from 7,806 entries across 54 Commonwealth countries. Read more 👇
Commonwealth Short Story Prize announces 2026 shortlist
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New Excerpt up! ZamaShort #11 ‘Gold-Plated Boy’ by Hussani Abdulrahim @hussani14.bsky.social www.zamashort.com/p/excerpts.h... #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Thrilled to be on this shortlist with my story 'Happiness is Hard to Find' 🙌🙌
Bristol Short Story Prize@bristolshortstory.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe are delighted to announce the 2026 Bristol Short Story Prize shortlist! These 15 writers are in the running for this year’s top prize and their shortlisted stories will all be published in our volume 18 anthology.
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The latest ZamaShort Mini-Bundle is now live! Only $9 USD (or $4.3 USD if paying with the available African currencies). #booksky 💙📚 #Romance #Africanfuturism #Poetrycollection @hussani14.bsky.social @abigailgeorgepoet.bsky.social
Happy Publish Day ZamaShort #12 ‘Did You get Married to Her when I was in the Mental Hospital?’ a poetry collection by Abigail George! @abigailgeorgepoet.bsky.social #poetry #booksky 💙📚 #readersky #poetrylovers #poetrybooks
ZamaShort #12 ‘Did You get Married to Her when I was in the Mental Hospital?’ by Abigail George
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Gold-Plated Boy is now available for purchase! Thanks to the incredible folks at @zamashort.com . Please buy, read, enjoy, and recommend! Thank you 🙏
ZamaShort@zamashort.com · 8mo agoHappy Publish Day ZamaShort #11 ‘Gold-Plated Boy’ by Hussani Abdulrahim! @hussani14.bsky.social More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Happy Publish Day ZamaShort #11 ‘Gold-Plated Boy’ by Hussani Abdulrahim! @hussani14.bsky.social More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Excellent and first review for @hussani14.bsky.social Hussani Abdulrahim's 'Gold-Plated Boy' ZamaShort #11 by Ahmad Mubarak Tanimu in JAY lit. Many thanks Ahmad! #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Layers of Avarice: A Review of Hussani Abdulrahim’s Gold-Plated Boy - JAY Lit
Among the many benefits of my Flame Tree Fellowship was the gift of friendship with Hussaini (officially misspelled as ‘Hussani’). I believe he is the best of us. You can read the recently released Fl...
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🚀 Fission #6 - Submissions close at 11.59pm Feb 27th. We're looking for sf stories (including all subgenres/hybrids) between 1k and 5k words that have not been published before in an English language source. Find out more:
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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.
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.
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Release 1st March 2026. ‘Gold-Plated Boy’ is Available Here: Direct from ZamaShort at our shop in our Bundles or by Subscription: www.zamashort.com Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPDRSQG2 (Also Amazon UK, DE, FR, ES, IT, NL, JP, BR, CA, MX, AU, IN) Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/gold...
He lives in Kano, Nigeria, and is working on both a novel and a short story collection.
Hussani’s work has appeared in Boston Review, Wilted Pages, Ubwali Literary Magazine, Tasteful: A Literary Cannibal Anthology, Brave New Weird Anthology (Tenebrous Press), Brittle Paper, Evergreen Review, Solarpunk, Ibua Journal, The Flametree Project, and Afritondo Prize anthologies.
He was a participant in the Flame Tree Writers’ Workshop co-facilitated by award-winning writers Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Chika Unigwe in 2024. He also participated in the 2025 Kokonut Head Media Virtual Residency Programme.
He won the 2023 Writivism Short Story Prize, Ibua Journal’s 2023 Bold Call, and the 2016 Green Author Prize. He has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Afritondo Prize, Boston Review’s Aura Estrada Short Fiction Contest, and the BWR Summer Fiction Contest.
Hussani Abdulrahim is a Nigerian writer. He has a degree in Pure Chemistry from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. Hussani’s short story ‘Arewa Boys’, which won the Toyin Falola Prize (2022), was shortlisted for the 2024 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award.
Huge thanks to the amazing Nana Sule for this wonderful blurb! 🥰
ZamaShort@zamashort.com · 8mo ago“Abdulrahim is a writer of rare imaginative force. In ‘Gold-Plated Boy’, he unites technology, ambition, envy, oppression, and human frailty into a tale as dazzling as it is unsettling.” — Nana Sule, author of Not So Terrible People.
Mama Blessing, a struggling buka road-side restaurant owner, is promised riches by the diviner Mallam Idi if she acquires a gold-plated android boy. This—a seemingly impossible task given the fortune it will cost—sets Mama Blessing down a path that will irrevocably change her life.
My story 'Gold-Plated Boy' is now up for preorder. Thanks to @ivorhartmann.bsky.social & @zamashort.com for believing in this small story ☺️ www.amazon.com/dp/B0GPDRSQG2
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ZamaShort@zamashort.com · 8mo agoZamaShort #11 ‘Gold-Plated Boy’ by Hussani Abdulrahim @hussani14.bsky.social. Pre-Order 99c Special! (amazon(s) only). More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Tasteful Anthology is now on Storygraph! If you're active there, please mark it "to read" and add a review once you've read it!
Tasteful Anthology@tasteful-anthology.bsky.social · 2y agoJust added it! Thank you for the suggestion. app.thestorygraph.com/books/61443a...
The Tasteful Anthology is now available! Proud to have my story "Bring Me Skin" in this delectable offering. Please come feast with us!
Tasteful Anthology@tasteful-anthology.bsky.social · 2y agoTasteful A Literary Cannibal Anthology is HERE! You can now get your hands on 21 delicious stories of people eating people! Read this thread or visit tastefulanthology.com/about/ for the best way to get your hands on a copy! 💙📚😱📣 #Booksky #Horrorsky
My story "Bring Me Skin" will appear in this anthology. Immense gratitude to the editors 🙏❤️
Tasteful Anthology@tasteful-anthology.bsky.social · 2y agoTASTEFUL ANTHOLOGY! We're an anthology of stories about cannibalism, to support food banks! Coming on DECEMBER 15! Follow this account for updates and to learn more about how to get your grubby hands on our delicious book.
TASTEFUL ANTHOLOGY! We're an anthology of stories about cannibalism, to support food banks! Coming on DECEMBER 15! Follow this account for updates and to learn more about how to get your grubby hands on our delicious book.
