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

ZamaShort #11 ‘Gold-Plated Boy’ by Hussani Abdulrahim @hussani14.bsky.social. Pre-Order 99c Special! (amazon(s) only). More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

Next month's release is now all out to subscribers, if you'd like our publications delivered monthly to your inbox, before the retail release, and at a lower price, consider becoming a subscriber! #AfricanLit #AfricanSFF #scifi #fantasy #romance #contemporary #satire #horror #booksky 📚💙

ZamaShort Excerpts: 'Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise' by Bongani Sibanda. Now up at our home-site, along with all other excerpts to date! #AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

Congrats to Nerine Dorman (ZamaShort#2) on the first cover reveal of what will be an epic pentalogy!

"...my favourite in the ZamaShort series so far" --Harare Review of Books.

ZamaShort wishes you a lovely Valentine’s Day! Celebrate with ZamaShort#10 'Vibrating Particles' by Daniel Joe, a romance of second chances to warm you and your loved one's heart. More in the thread ---⬇ #Romance #booksky 💙📚💙

Repost of our 2025 line-up for your Locus and Hugo consideration. #scifi #fantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

Excellent review from HRB for @carmelorafala.bsky.social Carmelo Rafalà's 'The Clarity of Ice' ZamaShort #4, (on the longlist for BSFA 2026 if you're voting). Many thanks Jacqui! #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

The Clarity of Ice x Carmelo Rafalà

ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author - Daniel Joe, ZamaShort #10 ‘Vibrating Particles’ More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanLit #Romance #booksky 💙📚💙

Alright. As is now tradition, here are my 10 favorite African SFF stories from 2025 📖 📚 Featuring tales from: @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social @clarkesworldmagazine.com @omenanamag.bsky.social @giganotosaurus.bsky.social @zamashort.com @khoreo.bsky.social @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social + more!

T.L. Huchu's 'When Two Sorcerers Collide' ZamaShort #7 makes Reactor Magazine's Ten(ish) Best African Speculative Short Fiction Stories of 2025. Massive Congrats Tendai! Many thanks @reactorsff.bsky.social! #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

Publish Day, Now Out! ZamaShort #10 'Vibrating Particles' by Daniel Joe, a pure romance of second chances set to warm your heart. More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanLit #Romance #booksky 💙📚💙

Now up on our home site is an excerpt of Carmelo Rafalà's @carmelorafala.bsky.social 'The Clarity of Ice' in honour of its BSFA @bsfa.bsky.social Award 2026 nomination, and for ease of reading for BSFA members, and of course for youse too :). #AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

ZamaShort Extras: Excerpts ZamaShort #8 The Offertory by Tabitha Wanja Mwangi, over at our WhatsApp Channel, exclusively: whatsapp.com/channel/0029... #AfricanLit #booksky 📚💙

Congrats to Nerine Dorman @nerinedorman.bsky.social (ZamaShort#2) on the forthcoming release of the co-authored with Catriona Ross two book beginning of the Legacy of Obsidian novel series, releases 21 Feb, pre-orders up:

ZamaShort has switched to a more stable Euros based model over a USD one previously used, you will notice a slight increase in prices, some currencies, like USD, slightly more than others. The standing 50% less for all African currencies at our own shop remains.

This month's subscription release is now all out to subscribers, if you'd like our publications delivered to your inbox before the retail release and at a lower price consider becoming a subscriber! #AfricanLit #AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙

February with Valentine's Day is the month of love and our story ZamaShort #10 ‘Vibrating Particles’ by Daniel Joe is a pure romance of second chances set to warm your heart. #AfricanLit #Romance #booksky 💙📚💙

Massive congrats to Carmelo Rafalà @carmelorafala.bsky.social on the BSFA @bsfa.bsky.social nomination for 'Clarity of Ice' ZamaShort #4 www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... #booksky 🪐📚💙

Our own website shop is now complete, all items added!😅 The standing 50% discount for all African currencies is in effect here too. #AfricanLit #AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙

We have been working on setting up our shop at our website, still a work in progress, we offer the Annual Subscription and the Full Bundle, so far, more to come in time.

ZamaShort #9 'Everyone is a Robot until Proved Otherwise' by Bongani Sibanda on the HRB 2026 reading list, in good company, check it out.

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!

ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Bongani Sibanda, ZamaShort #9 ‘Everyone is a Robot until Proven Otherwise’. More in the thread ---⬇ #AfricanSFF #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙

New year, new domain, and emails :). [email protected] [email protected]

In '25, our first year with the imprint's launch in May, our most publicly avid reader and reviewer was Harare Review of Books. Thank you HRB, your support meant so very much to us!

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 🪐📚💙

now THAT is a title!

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 📚💙

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 📚💙

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.

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.)

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,

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 📚💙

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.

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 📚💙

Give the gift of imagination with ZamaShort! selfany.com/s/ZamaShort #Africanlit #AfricanSFF #booksky 📚💙

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 📚💙

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 📚💙

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 📚💙

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

✨2025 Eligibility Post✨ Short Stories for your consideration. #booksky #AfricanSFF #AfricanLit🪐📚💙

Plug for Libby Young's The Smell of Rain! Bc apropos

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.

The Smell of Rain x Libby Young

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 🪐📚💙

I've enjoyed this series! Particular favorites: - Muthi Nhlema, Piss Corpse (very droll) - Libby Young, The Smell of Rain (haunting me since I read it) - Carmelo Rafalà, The Clarity of Ice (my kind of SF 🤩) Also liked Zainab Omaki's The Last and Final Battle.

I've been following these coming out and bookmarking for when I have time to read and I think that time has come!! (Particularly excited about Piss Corpse as an RPCV and critical scholar of aid & development work...) Thank you for doing this publishing labor and getting these stories out there!