Sigh, I am arguing with an ISFDB moderator, they insist on stating Salisbury, Rhodesia, as my place of birth (as per their guidelines stating place names used at time of birth should be used).

Happy Publish Day Blaize! @bomoko.bsky.social What if everyone suddenly knew the true purpose of life, the universe, and everything. A touching tale and exploration of a wedded mathematician and philosopher faced with the ultimate truth of reality. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

ZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye

ZamaShort #16

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The Unrepentant: Short Stories x Sharmini Aphrodite 196 pp. November 1, 2025, Gaudy Boy. Fiction anthology. There’s something particularly meaningful about learning Global South history through fiction or non-fiction from the region in question, and this collection of fourteen stories is a deeply…

The Unrepentant: Short Stories x Sharmini Aphrodite

196 pp. November 1, 2025, Gaudy Boy. Fiction anthology. There’s something particularly meaningful about learning Global South history through fiction or non-fiction from the region in question, and this collection of fourteen stories is a deeply emotive introduction to the history of Malaya—its colonisation through ships “that came earlier or later,” by the Portuguese, then the Dutch, then the British, then the Japanese—and then finally the complex struggle for independence from the British again.

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I just read this! It's a fantastic story that is, in part, about knowing there's a creator of the world and choosing to want nothing to do with them, and what it means to love someone who wants different. Very much recommend!

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ZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye @bomoko.bsky.social What if you suddenly knew the true purpose of life. A touching tale and exploration of a mathematician and philosopher faced with the ultimate truth of reality. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

My story "Ethics after the End of the World" is out today via @zamashort.com! "Before I left, I lay on our bed and breathed deep, smelling her, trying to hold what I could of her to take with me. I then walked to an Exit Point, up the gangway into the pitch-black nothingness and into the Outside."

ZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye

ZamaShort #16

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ZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye @bomoko.bsky.social What if you suddenly knew the true purpose of life. A touching tale and exploration of a mathematician and philosopher faced with the ultimate truth of reality. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

ZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye

ZamaShort #16

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Coming soon from @zamashort.com - I'm stoked for this one. @ivorhartmann.bsky.social is a great editor, I'm really honored to got to work with him on this.

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ZamaShort #16 'Ethics after the End of the World' by Blaize M. Kaye @bomoko.bsky.social What if you suddenly knew the true purpose of life. A touching tale and exploration of a mathematician and philosopher faced with the ultimate truth of reality. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

The winners are: Salim Hussein Ng’anzi’s novel Mwanamkasi Ndio Basi (Mwanamkasi, That’s It!), in the Fiction category, & Ali Hilal Ali’s Poetry collection, Diwani ya Vizikwa Vya Kale (The Anthology of the Ancient Ruins), in the Poetry category. They both received prize money of US $5,000 Dollars.

Efemia Chela on Lizzy Attree's @lizzyattree.bsky.social 'Guava Jam' ZamaShort #15 Many thanks Efemia! Find more here: www.zamashort.com/2026/06/zama...

Today's the day! @kiswahiliprize.bsky.social in Dar es Salaam

We are so proud to have reached 10 years of Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature and with Mkuki na Nyota Publishers to have published all of these book! A real library, a legacy, a great achievement! #KiswahiliPrize

Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature Announces 2025 Shortlists #LiteraryAwards #Fiction #poetry #Kiswahili #BookSky www.writingafrica.com/safal-kiswah...

Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature Announces 2025 Shortlists

The shortlists for the tenth edition of the Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature 2025 were announced in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday, July 20, 2026.

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Excerpt: Shards x Cynthia Rumbidzai Marangwanda HRB is delighted to bring you an excerpt from Shards by Cynthia Rumbidzai Marangwanda (Carnelian Heart Publishing, 2023). Carnelian Heart kindly provided the excerpt below. Cynthia Marangwanda is a Zimbabwean writer, poet, and spoken-word artist. She…

Excerpt: Shards x Cynthia Rumbidzai Marangwanda

HRB is delighted to bring you an excerpt from Shards by Cynthia Rumbidzai Marangwanda (Carnelian Heart Publishing, 2023). Carnelian Heart kindly provided the excerpt below. Cynthia Marangwanda is a Zimbabwean writer, poet, and spoken-word artist. She has shared her work locally and abroad, in places such as Namibia, Lesotho, the Netherlands, and the US. Her poetry and writing mainly deal with themes of identity, African spirituality, cultural heritage, Afrocentric womanhood, and revolutionary ideology.

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New Excerpt up! 'Descendants of Balance' by Rafeeat Aliyu, ZamaShort #14. #fantasy #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚

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ZamaShort Excerpts

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Looking back on 10 years of the @kiswahiliprize.bsky.social via @pubperspectives.bsky.social with thanks to @oliviasnaije.bsky.social publishingperspectives.com/2026/07/the-...

The Safal Kiswahili Prize for African Literature: From an Idea to an Ecosystem - Publishing Perspectives

On its 10th anniversary, one of the prize's co-founders reflects on how the award has helped expand the contemporary Kiswahili canon, and demonstrated that there is a vibrant market for quality litera...

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All countries thrive or decline hinged on their infrastructure. Good infrastructure is expensive, time consuming, requires advance planning and serious expertise, and just hard, hard to make, hard to maintain, hard to upgrade, and yet it underpins everything.

New story up in issue 305 of Interzone. A Perfectly Good Train: a Supermamadou Story It’s about a kid who wants to be a superhero, and probably could come to think of it… Link below: interzone.press/iz-305/?fbcl...

💥💥Last 72 HOURS of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive!! 💥💥 - $445 away from raising author pay to 9c/word for 2027 - $5445 away from raising author pay to 10c/word for 2027 Lots of rewards still on offer. To support: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

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Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 4w ago

Delighted to say that we have made our basic funding goal of $22K, which means that Strange Horizons will continue to exist as a weekly, free magazine of SFF for the 27th year running! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... However, with ten days left, it’s not over. Read on: 🧵

Let's celebrate @MegArenberg 's English translation of @KiswahiliPrize winner Mohammed K Ghassani's I Have a Home, There Is a We - Voice of a Stranger in a Strange Land (N’Na Kwetu) published by @UnivNebPress earlier this year! #KiswahiliLit #Translation www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

I Have a Home, There Is a We - Nebraska Press

I Have a Home, There Is a We, whose original Swahili edition was in 2015 the first book of poetry to win the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Litera...

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Meet the Author Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social, ‘Guava Jam', ZamaShort #15, (includes her essay). #AfricanLit #ContemporaryFiction #booksky 💙📚

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ZamaShort Authors, Bios and Essays.

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New review by K. Piddo p' Odoki for Abigail George's @abigailgeorgepoet.bsky.social 'Did You get Married to Her When I was in the Mental Hospital?' ZamaShort #12. #booksky 💙📚 #poetry

"Did You Get Married to Her When I Was in the Mental Hospital?" by Abigail George

There are works of literature that ask to be read, and there are works that demand to be survived. Abigail George's latest prose poem sequence belongs firmly, unflinchingly, to the second category.

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Cry and cry the 7th of July, a dark day for Zimbabwean people as CAB3 becomes law and entrenches tyranny.

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump x Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump x Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

496 pp. June 23, 2026, Simon & Schuster. Non-fiction. Hubris. One cannot read this account of Trump’s second term (so far) without feeling wholly aghast at the sheer hubris of the man, born of a toxic combination of his self-belief and his delusions of persecution. But Trump does say something revealing and difficult to argue with, quoted at the end of the book: “They illegally indicted me, they impeached me, they did everything—they shot me, I guess you could say.

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The latest ZamaShort bundle is up! ZamaShort #13 ‘Fly, Flightless’ by Chisom Umeh @izom-chisom.bsky.social ZamaShort #14 ‘Descendants of Balance by Rafeeat Aliyu ZamaShort #15 ‘Guava Jam’ by Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social www.zamashort.com/p/shop.html #AfricanSFF #AfricanLit #booksky 💙📚

Happy Publish Day Lizzy! @lizzyattree.bsky.social ZamaShort #15 'Guava Jam' Salem Inn, Eastern Cape, South Africa. A knock on the door shifts Lucy's notion of friendship, motherhood, and hospitality, while new life percolates inside her. #AfricanLit #ContemporaryFiction #booksky 💙📚

ZamaShort #15 'Guava Jam' by Lizzy Attree

ZamaShort #15

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We've completed the first two weeks of the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive, and - at present - are just over $5K away from meeting our base goal, to continue publishing in 2027. To help us get there, back us here: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

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Gautam Bhatia@gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Strange Horizons annual fund-drive is now live! Support us to continue publishing free, weekly, online SFFH fiction, poetry, art, and non-fiction for our 27th year! www.backerkit.com/c/users/3516... For new supporters - welcome aboard. For the regulars - you’ll notice something different. 🧵

ZamaShort #15 'Guava Jam' by Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social. “Attree crafts a poignant, moving story with a strong sense of place." — Tendai Huchu, author of The Hairdresser of Harare. Pre-Orders Up, click link to see options and more! #AfricanLit #ContemporaryFiction #booksky 💙📚

ZamaShort #15 'Guava Jam' by Lizzy Attree

ZamaShort #15

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I'm not a fan of African SFF stories that have African settings but don't actually engage with African traditional philosophies, histories, beliefs, concepts or ideas. I need to see it in the source code.