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Happy Publish Day Emmanuel Sigauke! 'The Zambia Wrap', ZamaShort #18. Josephat is looking in lust for love in Sacramento at the dawn of online dating. He will meet a diversity of African-American women and be initiated into their complexities. #AfricanLit #LiteraryFiction #booksky 💙📚

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ZamaShort #18 The Zambia Wrap by Emmanuel Sigauke

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 4h

We publish short story singles, but also have an annual anthology in the works, this is out latest SF. Who watches the watchers, and do they need a therapist? A near-future behind the scenes into the dark and tightly controlled world of social content “moderation” and refining.

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ZamaShort #17 Vast & Cool & Unsympathetic by Imraan Coovadia

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 27/09/2026

The ZamaShort Shop has updated! We now offer Subscriptions, one Full Bundle, and all our publications individually! Buy direct from us and stop funding oligarchs and start funding authors better. #AfricanLit #AfricanSFF #booksky 💙📚

ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 25/09/2026

ZamaShort #18 The Zambia Wrap by Emmanuel Sigauke Pre-Orders Available, release 1st October 2026, click link to see more! #AfricanLit #LiteraryFiction #booksky 💙📚

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ZamaShort #18 The Zambia Wrap by Emmanuel Sigauke

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 18/09/2026

Geoff Ryman, is an author of speculative and historical fiction. He has won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy Award, Nebula, two-time Arthur C. Clarke, three-time BSFA, two-time Canadian Sunburst, as well as the Campbell, Philip K. Dick, and Otherwise, awards. His latest novel is Animals.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 18/09/2026

Geoff Ryman on Imraan Coovadia's 'Vast & Cool & Unsympathetic', ZamaShort #17. Many thanks Geoff! www.zamashort.com/2026/08/zama... #Africanfuturism #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙

Image of book cover and text “Imraan Coovadia brings to life the trauma and heartache of everyday life in a tech bro’s nightmare company, a tale of many different kinds of love and of hate.” — Geoff Ryman.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 11/09/2026

New Excerpt! 'Ethics after the End of the World' by @bomoko.bsky.social Blaize M. Kaye, ZamaShort #16. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 04/09/2026

Meet the Author Imraan Coovadia, 'Vast & Cool & Unsympathetic', ZamaShort #17, (includes his essay). #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 01/09/2026

Viewer numbers are everything and heinous content is king, but what severe toll does this extract from the moderators? In this latest work from the acclaimed author of A Spy in Time, Imraan Coovadia lays bare a stark and compelling future warning based on current realities.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 01/09/2026

Who watches the watchers, and do they need a therapist? This near-future tale takes you behind the scenes into the dark, isolated, claustrophobic, and tightly controlled, world of social content “moderation” and refining.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 01/09/2026

Happy Publish Day Imraan Coovadia! 'Vast & Cool & Unsympathetic', ZamaShort #17. “Brings to life the trauma and heartache of everyday life in a tech bro’s nightmare company, a tale of many different kinds of love and of hate.” — Geoff Ryman. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

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ZamaShort #17 Vast & Cool & Unsympathetic by Imraan Coovadia

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 28/08/2026

“Imraan Coovadia brings to life the trauma and heartache of everyday life in a tech bro’s nightmare company, a tale of many different kinds of love and of hate.” — Geoff Ryman, author of Animals.

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ZamaShort #17 Vast & Cool & Unsympathetic by Imraan Coovadia Who watches the watchers, and do they need a therapist? A near-future behind the scenes into the dark and tightly controlled world of social content “moderation” and refining. #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

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ZamaShort #17 Vast & Cool & Unsympathetic by Imraan Coovadia

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 21/08/2026

Stephen Embleton @stephenembleton.bsky.social and Amy Heydenrych on Blaize M. Kaye's @bomoko.bsky.social 'Ethics after the End of the World', ZamaShort #16. Many thanks to you both! See more at: www.zamashort.com/2026/07/zama... #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

Image of the book cover for Blaize M. Kaye's 'Ethics after the End of the World', ZamaShort #16.
Text: “A “weighty significance” that’ll hit you like a brick. Prescient, touching, and thought-provoking, Kaye’s going to take you to the precipice of your lived life and afterlife and ask you: what’s the meaning, for you? And offers a choice. So how close are you willing to get to the Truth?”
— Stephen Embleton, 2024 Nommo Award Winner for Best Speculative Fiction Novella, Undulation.

“Blaize Kaye’s vision of the future is tender, prescient and profound. ‘Ethics after the End of the World’ offers us science fiction at its most intimate, allowing us to go beyond picturing the world he has created, to feeling it. Blaize’s work, as seen so clearly in this story, concerns itself with loneliness and loss in this world and others, but is always grounded in human connection.”
— Amy Heydenrych, author of Bad Luck Penny.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 20/08/2026

Subscriber copies for ZamShort #17 now out! If you'd like advance ZamaShort copies right to your inbox every month try out one of our subscription options! #booksky 💙📚 #AfricanSFF #Africanlit

ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 07/08/2026

Meet the Author Blaize M. Kaye @bomoko.bsky.social, 'Ethics after the End of the World', ZamaShort #16, (includes his essay). #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 01/08/2026

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 🪐📚💙

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

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Anna Clark @annaclark.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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 @zamashort.com · 25/07/2026

Most welcome Blaize, such a great story!

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 24/07/2026

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 🪐📚💙

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

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 24/07/2026

Efemia Chela is a Zambian-Ghanaian writer, nominated for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2014 and shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Prize in 2017. She is currently working on her debut novel at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a contributing editor for the The Johannesburg Review of Books.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 24/07/2026

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...

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The Kalahari Review @kalaharireview.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A beautiful open letter from Silke Heiss to Abigail George about her stunning new work, "Did You Get Married To Her When I Was In The Mental Hospital?" t.ly/YTNFM

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A smell my nose is now hunting - Review of Did You Get Married To Her When I Was In The Mental Hospital? by Abigail George

Silke is a poet and prose writer who shares her journey through the power of words

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 17/07/2026

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

ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 03/07/2026

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 💙📚

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ZamaShort #13 ‘Fly, Flightless’ by Chisom Umeh
ZamaShort #14 ‘Descendants of Balance by Rafeeat Aliyu
ZamaShort #15 ‘Guava Jam’ by Lizzy Attree

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 01/07/2026

“Lizzy Attree evokes both the crossing of multicultural lives and loneliness in London and the specificity of rural life in the Eastern Cape with elegance, sharp detail and humour.” — Efemia Chela, contributing editor Johannesburg Review of Books.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 01/07/2026

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 💙📚

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ZamaShort #15 'Guava Jam' by Lizzy Attree

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Dr Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Out today! ZamaShort www.zamashort.com?m=1 from @zamashort.com

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Dr Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A short story I wrote a few years ago will be published on 1st July by @zamashort.com thanks to @ivorhartmann.bsky.social 'Guava Jam' is set in Salem, in the eastern cape, when Lucy finds herself alone one weekend in June... a knock on the door and a request for help... Enjoy!

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 26/06/2026

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 💙📚

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ZamaShort #15 'Guava Jam' by Lizzy Attree

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 19/06/2026

Dare Segun Falowo is an earthworker and a writer in the Nigerian Weird. They draw inspiration from dreams, a lived surreality, and indigenous cosmologies. Their work has appeared in Omenana, ZamaShort, F&SF, Baffling, Dominion, Africa Risen and more. Their debut collection, Caged Ocean Dub, is out.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 19/06/2026

Dare Segun Falowo on Rafeeat Aliyu's 'Descendants of Balance', ZamaShort #14. Many thanks Dare! Follow Dare here: @dsfalowo.bsky.social See more here: www.zamashort.com/2026/05/zama... #fantasy #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚

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“‘Descendants of Balance’ is a perfect serving of Rafeeat Aliyu's unique storytelling alchemy. The heft of the Forest as a living thriving organism brought a folktale thrill to this tale about the equilibrium expected of those who live between worlds. It centres textured characters while never forgetting the cinema and magic of their fantastic worlds, lineages, and origins. This story draws on precolonial history and indigenous myth to reveal a world wholly new, yet familiar as childhood. We found ourselves caught up in the unfolding of Oronsen's survival, in Lakange's strength and love, in the mystery of the iwin.”
— Dare Segun Falowo, author of Caged Ocean Dub.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 05/06/2026

Meet the Author Rafeeat Aliyu, ‘Descendants of Balance’, ZamaShort #14, (includes her essay). #fantasy #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 03/06/2026

and The Baum Plan for Financial Independence. He is married to the novelist Therese Anne Fowler.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 03/06/2026

Kessel has written the novels Pride and Prometheus, The Moon and the Other, Good News from Outer Space, Corrupting Dr. Nice, and Freedom Beach (with James Patrick Kelly), and the story collections Meeting in Infinity, The Pure Product,

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 03/06/2026

The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel, was published in 2022, and his The Presidential Papers appeared in PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series in 2024.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 03/06/2026

His fiction has received the Theodore Sturgeon, Locus, James Tiptree Jr./Otherwise, Ignotus, and Shirley Jackson awards, and twice received the Nebula award.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 03/06/2026

Novelist and story writer John Kessel is emeritus professor of literature and creative writing at North Carolina State University, where he helped found the MFA program in creative writing.

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ZamaShort @zamashort.com · 03/06/2026

John Kessel on 'Descendants on Balance' by Rafeeat Aliyu @cosmicrafee, ZamaShort 14. Many thanks John! See more at: www.zamashort.com #fantasy #AfricanSFF #BookSky 💙📚

John Kessel on 'Descendants on Balance' by Rafeeat Aliyu, ZamaShort 14.
Text reads: “In 'Descendants of Balance' Rafeeat Aliyu tells us of a powerful spirit of the forest, taken human form out of love for a warrior king, the political and interpersonal conflicts that follow, and the betrayal that breaks things apart. It glows with the elemental force of myth and with the jealousies we find ourselves living whether or not we are gods, even when we don't know those stories that created us.”
— John Kessel, author of The Presidential Papers.

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