tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77599177464557495212024-02-19T05:01:00.787+02:00Ivor W. Hartmann This is the Official website for Zimbabwean Author Ivor W. Hartmann.Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.comBlogger69120tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-43768706477519018032020-05-22T12:18:00.002+02:002020-05-22T12:19:45.415+02:00The first African Speculative Fiction StoryBundle
The first African Speculative Fiction StoryBundle is now live for the next 21 days only!
The African Speculative Fiction StoryBundle curated by Ivor W. Hartmann
This is the most comprehensive collection of African speculative fiction authors ever assembled. With the complete bundle containing nearly 100 authors and over 145 works it stands both as an excellent introduction to the rapidly Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-1198997521832093392018-12-04T12:36:00.000+02:002020-03-23T16:02:11.343+02:00AfroSFv3 Released!
AfroSFv3 Released!
Now out in ebook and paperback at most major online retailers.
Space, the astronomical wilderness that has enthralled our minds since we first looked up in wonder. We are ineffably drawn to it, and equally terrified by it. We have created endless mythologies, sciences, and even religions, in the quest to understand it. We know more now than ever before and are taking our Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-55953251948031858212015-12-01T12:48:00.000+02:002015-12-01T12:48:46.892+02:00AfroSFv2 Release Day! Release Day for AfroSFv2! Now out in ebook and paperback at most major online retailers.
Continuing the groundbreaking tradition of the first volume AfroSFv2 is an anthology of five original SF novellas by African writers.Table of Contents‘The Last Pantheon’
Tade Thompson & Nick Wood
An epic superhero face-off thousands of years in the making.
‘Hell Freezes Over’
Mame Bougouma Diene
Long Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-71962346568267499752015-09-11T12:28:00.001+02:002015-10-08T10:12:07.725+02:00AfroSFv2 Cover and TOC release! Continuing the groundbreaking tradition of the first volume AfroSFv2 is an exciting anthology of five original SF novellas by African writers.Table of Contents‘The Last Pantheon’
Tade Thompson & Nick Wood
An epic superhero face-off thousands of years in the making.
‘Hell Freezes Over’
Mame Bougouma Diene
Long after the last skyscraper has drowned who remains and how will they survive?
‘The Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-26727341732664020862015-04-08T13:45:00.001+02:002015-04-08T13:45:57.520+02:00"Last Wave" published, translated, and won third place in the inaugural Jalada Prize for Literature! My short story "Last Wave" published in Jalada's Afrofuture(s) anthology, translated into Swahili by Okwiri Oduor for the bonus edition, and won third place in the inaugural Jalada Prize for Literature!Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-66531369554646335232015-04-03T11:50:00.001+02:002015-04-03T11:51:57.467+02:00Interview in This Is Africa New interview out, talking about publishing and writing with Bwesigye Bwa Mwesigire in This Is Africa: StoryTime’s Ivor Hartmann: Carrying the flag for independent (donor-free) African publishers "If someone talks about African genre-publishing and writing and omits Ivor Hartmann, ask them to do their homework and return. Ivor’s StoryTime has always had an eye for genre-fiction, even when he Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-41899535655124616482014-10-02T13:36:00.000+02:002014-10-02T13:36:55.456+02:00African Roar 2014 Released! African Roar 2014 released! From the introduction to African Roar 2014:
Writers have a long tradition of breaking new ground, and African writers are no exception to this tradition. We don’t wait for publishers who wait for markets to become established, no, we jump into the deep end and form those markets ourselves. Whether it’s a publishing collective, micro-press, small press, blogs, Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-18973500553517703382014-09-16T10:35:00.000+02:002014-09-16T10:36:29.916+02:00New story published 'Catwalk' in Litro#137: Future Fashions "This was Chiedza’s first catwalk and she was pregnant with anxiety. The roar of the crowd like a thousand bees in her brain pummelled through the skin curtains leading to the great hall and the runway that bisected it... Read the full story here.Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-19667711470640176522014-08-02T11:13:00.000+02:002014-08-02T11:17:20.739+02:00African Roar 2014 Cover and TOC release! African Roar 2014Table of Contents
Flight - Jayne Bauling
My Wedding Day - Obinna Ozoigbo
The Side Dish - Edwin P. Magezi
Beth's Aid - Tabitha Wanja Mwangi
Talking to a Lizard - Obinna Udenwe
Coming Home in a Box - Olorunfunmi Demilade Temitope
The Bell Not Touched - Nonso Uzozie
Spinoza's Monad - Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso
A Salute to Safety Sam - Tendai Machingaidze
Cover artwork 'Spirit of Hope' Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-52975452313470867222014-07-23T11:57:00.001+02:002014-07-23T11:59:44.325+02:00"A Mouse Amongst Men" selected for The 20 in Twenty"A Mouse Amongst Men" selected for The 20 in Twenty: The Best Short Stories of South South Africa’s Democracy. Very happy and humbled to be selected for inclusion amongst such awesome writers whose works I greatly admire (like Zukiswa Wanner, Niq Mhlongo, Sarah Lotz, Ivan Vladislavic, and Siphiwo Mahala, to name a few). Many thanks to Tiah Beautement (SSDA), Ben Williams (BL), Minister for Arts Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-27224739138282536752013-10-17T17:42:00.000+02:002013-10-17T17:42:07.312+02:00African Roar 2013 released!
Title: African Roar 2013
Editor: Emmanuel Sigauke
Publisher: StoryTime
Release: 16th October 2013
ISBN: 978-0-9870089-8-5 (Ebook Edition)
Table of Contents:
"Home" Alison S. Erlwanger
"Business as Usual" Jayne Bauling
"Salvation in Odd Places" Aba Amissah Asibon
"The Faces of Fate" Abdulghani Sheikh Hassan
"In Bramble Bushes" Dipita Kwa
"Transitions" Barbara Ruwende-Mhangami
"A Yoke for Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-23317520433296759662012-12-20T15:14:00.000+02:002012-12-20T15:14:18.101+02:00African Roar 2012 ebook edition released today!African Roar 2012 ebook edition released today and available at all Amazon sites worldwide:
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon Germany
Amazon France
Amazon Spain
Amazon Italy
Amazon Japan
Amazon California
Amazon BrazilIvor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-80592773773185898872012-12-08T17:42:00.001+02:002012-12-08T18:01:13.994+02:00African Roar 2012 Cover and TOC releaseEditors: Emmanuel Sigauke & Ivor W. Hartmann
Title: African Roar 2012
Publisher: StoryTime
Release: Dec. 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9870089-7-8 (Ebook Edition)
African Roar 2012, an annual anthology of African Authors.
Table of Contents:
'Sethunya Likes Girls Better' Wame Molefhe
'We Can See You' Abdul Adan
'How Nnedi Got Her Curved Spine' Nnedi Okorafor
'Soldiers of the Stone' Uko Bendi Udo
'The Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-60665474472740629002012-11-30T17:10:00.001+02:002012-12-05T18:17:58.745+02:00AfroSF eBook edition released!It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of the AfroSF eBook editon now available on Amazon.It has been a real honour to edit and publish AfroSF, the very first pan-African SciFi anthology. I am proud of all the stories in this anthology and the remarkable journey we have made together to publish it. I couldn't have imagined an anthology of this strength, uniqueness, and quality of workIvor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-45494101412645817922012-11-08T10:24:00.000+02:002012-11-08T10:24:43.148+02:00Recent Interviews for AfroSF and Editing I have done some interviews for AfroSF and one on editing recently:
The first one was with Dave De Burgh, one of the contributors in AfroSF, and the first in a series about the anthology and the contributors: Africa Rising: AfroSF – Science Fiction by African Writers (Edited by Ivor W. Hartmann)
The second was with author and editor Nerine Dorman: AfroSF with Ivor W. Hartmann
And the third with Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-14364936737874878522012-09-30T17:28:00.000+02:002012-11-30T17:10:11.700+02:00AfroSF Cover and TOC releaseEditor: Ivor W. Hartmann
Title: AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers
Publisher: StoryTime
Release Date: December 2012
ISBN: 978-0-9870089-5-4 (Ebook Edition)
AfroSF is the first ever anthology of Science Fiction by African writers only that was open to submissions from African writers all across Africa and abroad. Due for release in Dec 2012, ebook edition first, print edition later, and Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-29137219681003068412012-08-01T17:16:00.000+02:002012-09-30T17:42:32.242+02:00New short story 'Funeral Gastronomy'New short story 'Funeral Gastronomy' now out in Munyori Literary Journal:
"There is no dignity in dying and death, no matter what anyone says to the contrary, but there can be some satisfaction. We are, on a cold winter’s day, gathered around his graveside and the tears are flowing all around me. The irony is of course that not a single person here, except me, had even seen him in the last Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-49162184822393811532012-04-02T18:28:00.000+02:002012-04-02T18:28:30.614+02:00Saraba#11 The Sex IssueNew short story 'Size Matters' now out in Saraba#11, The Sex Issue:
"His name was Mike, and although he had many attributes, a reasonably sized penis was not one of them. In his estimation, the only men or women who thought size didn’t matter had reasonably sized penises at their disposal. Mike on the other hand barely escaped membership into the micropenis club at 7.3 cm – fully erect. This Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-10780940199027369152012-02-25T20:32:00.002+02:002012-02-26T19:32:15.723+02:00The Apex Book of World SF 2The Apex Book of World SF 2, is to be released in April 2012. My SciFi short 'Mr. Goop', will be alongside some great SF writers that altogether will make this anthology something quite special. Available for pre-orders here.Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7759917746455749521.post-39033111705287926152012-02-25T19:03:00.001+02:002012-02-25T19:22:56.771+02:00Collected quotes, poems, thoughts, excerpts, and insights (mainly from 2011)In 2010 I decided to start posting some of my own one-liner’s (well, mostly one-liner's) at my facebook writer's page. They are quite varied in source, some come from my side of conversations (real and digital), my works in progress, thoughts I had about issues or current events, personal insights, and poems. So I have been a touch late in this post mainly for 2011, but here they are, last to Ivor W. Hartmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04747901380659798898noreply@blogger.com0