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Ivor W. Hartmann
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Zimbabwean publisher, editor, writer, visual artist.
Anthology series ed./pub: African Roar, AfroSF, and ZamaShort launched 1st May 2025 @zamashort.bsky.social
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Ivor W. Hartmann @ivorhartmann.bsky.social · Nov 21
-1- Hi and welcome to new follows coming in from starter packs or otherwise! I am mainly an editor/publisher at the moment but also a writer and visual artist. I have run a micropress called StoryTime since 2007 and have published the following:
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OpenAI loses its first copyright case in Germany. Hopefully this paves the way for many more losses in their outright IP theft. "the internet is not a self-service store and human creative achievements are not free templates”
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
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November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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From the start, 'Shamiso' roots itself in Zimbabwean life and culture. It's in the way children start fights by kicking little mounds of soil while taunting, “your mother’s breast”. It's in Brian Chikwava’s use of the pronoun “they” for elders, and in naming your dog “to fight with your neighbours”.
Review: Marvels, mental mayhem, and meaning
A young woman loses her mind and finds herself.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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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 🪐📚💙
Image of the book cover for ZamaShort #6 'Sindi Fair' by Dare Segun Falowo
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author T.L. Huchu, ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide'.

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#fantasy #darkfantasy #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
Image of T.L Huchu author of ZamaShort #7 'When Two Sorcerers Collide'.
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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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.
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Has to be the the whole ZamaShort series, it has been a wild ride so far and every one has been most dear to me, I am honoured to have put forth works from all these amazing authors.
ZamaShort
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November 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Crop of the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. Image by: Silvia Mantovanini

#Astronomy
Cropped image of the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled. Image by: Silvia Mantovanini
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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🪘🧜🏾‍♀️🛸

Welcome to the African SFF Hype feed! To contribute, use #africansff

We promote reading African speculative fiction by African authors whom you can find in this starter pack: go.bsky.app/TVLxXew

Here's a @thestorygraph.com list of 200+ books: app.thestorygraph.com/tags/6577ca4...
African SFFH Authors/Writers
Join the conversation
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November 26, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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People are doing year wrap-ups already (give December a chance, people!) buuuut I'm curious -- What's the thing that's most dear to you that you've published this year and why?
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Image crop of poster for Once Were Warriors Lee Tamahori's debut feature.
November 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Know a writer who refuses to play it safe?

Tag them!

#AfricanLiterature #WritingContest #ExperimentalWriting
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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My Arms Vanished Mountains by Dambudzo Marechera, excerpt, part seven, read by Dambudzo Marechera.
(Published in Cemetery of Mind: www.amazon.com/Cemetery-Min... )
#AfricanLit
November 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Got my votes in for the 2025 African Speculative Fiction Society Nommos, good luck to all the finalists!

#africansff
November 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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🎃Happy Halloween and Publish Day of the ZamaShort Halloween Special: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights prequel story) Now Out! Bwahahaha!🎃

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#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
Cover image for ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu, text in green with Naletale Ruins texture, an evil Halloween pumpkin, and lightning framing text in blue and red.
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Harare Review of Books, September 2025 open.substack.com/pub/shonatig...
Harare Review of Books, September 2025
Heyyy :)
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October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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In blowing past +1.5c in global warming Hurricane Mellissa is the future come knocking here and now, not an outlier. Physics does not negotiate, doesn’t care what you believe or where you come from, it can’t be reasoned with, lied to, or ignored.
October 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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🎃The ZamaShort Halloween Special!🎃

🎃ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights Prequel Story)🎃

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#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
Image of book cover: ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights Prequel Story)
October 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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🎃The ZamaShort Halloween Special!🎃

Book Trailer

🎃ZamaShort #7 ‘When Two Sorcerers Collide’ by T.L. Huchu (An Edinburgh Nights Prequel Story)🎃

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX2KBC5Z

#darkfantasy #halloween #AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
October 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The South African Horrorfest Bloody Parchment event is happening at Exclusive Books V&A Waterfront on November 1 at 4pm! Dress up as your scariest self and stand a chance to win prizes. Join our local authors, who'll share their spookstories, and celebrate all things ghastly and ghoulish.
The South African Horrorfest logo with the words Bloody Parchment in distressed gothic font next to it, with a skull and roses on a pile of old books with red bloodstains.
October 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Six books dropping. Five authors showing up. One launch you don't want to miss.

This Saturday (Oct 25, 5PM WAT / 12PM EST), ISKANCHI is celebrating new releases that span the whole spectrum.

So register at bit.ly/IskanchiLaunch
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Announcing: HRB's Zimbabwean Speculative Poetry Competition 🥳🎉
#HRBZimSpecPo

Send us your speculative poetry featuring Zimbabwean myths, urban legends, and or/oral narratives. Make it utopian or dystopian, we don't mind! Be formal, or experimental. Challenge yourself! Challenge us!
#HRBZimSpecPo Zimbabwean poets, we're ready to read your poems! Send us your speculative poetry with a theme of Zimbabwean mythologies and/or oral rratives. Make it utopian or dystopian, we don't mind! Challenge yourself! Challenge us! Open to Zimbabwean poets worldwide. Judges: Tinashe Tafirenyika and Sista Zai Zanda Ist Prize: $100 cash, The Process of Poetry and Soon Come 2nd Prize: $60 and The Process of Poetry 3rd Prize: $40 and a book TBA Closing date: November 10, 2025 Max word count: 500 Enter at the link: https://forms.gle/WbbttwQN6kAkvvzy8
October 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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In this online age if 2%+ of your population is motivated enough to IRL protest nationwide maybe its time you started listening to them.
October 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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If you're new to bsky or missed this, excellent starter pack.

#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
October 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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🎃Something real special coming out this Halloween from ZamaShort 🎃
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Massive congrats to Tendai Huchu on the (UK) release of his fifth and final book of Ropa Moyo's epic journey through the Edinburgh Nights series that has been such a supreme pleasure to read.

#AfricanSFF #booksky 🪐📚💙
Image of the book cover for T.L. Huchu's fifth and final book of the Edinburgh Nights series Secrets of the First School.
October 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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3 best reads 2025. @meerkatpress.bsky.social @rdspress.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social @dharlanwilson.bsky.social
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Want to know Eugen Bacon's Top 3 Books of 2025?
Eugen's top 3 reads of 2025 include Black Apocalypse and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!
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October 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM