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 💙📚

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 👇

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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' 🙌🙌

Available only at our website shop (www.zamashort.com/p/shop.html) or our other online shop (selfany.com/ZamaShortBun...). Our ZamaShort Full Bundle has also been updated.

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

Thank you @zamashort.com and @ivorhartmann.bsky.social ❤️

Gold-Plated Boy is now available for purchase! Thanks to the incredible folks at @zamashort.com . Please buy, read, enjoy, and recommend! Thank you 🙏

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 🪐📚💙

🚀 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:

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! 🥰

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

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!

The Tasteful Anthology is now available! Proud to have my story "Bring Me Skin" in this delectable offering. Please come feast with us!

My story "Bring Me Skin" will appear in this anthology. Immense gratitude to the editors 🙏❤️

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.