{"id":17948,"date":"2026-11-15T02:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=17948"},"modified":"2026-11-15T02:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T02:48:15","slug":"publisher-spotlight-zamashort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=17948","title":{"rendered":"Publisher Spotlight: ZamaShort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>&#8220;ZamaShort is a mutli-genre imprint of micro-publisher StoryTime Publishing (<em>AfroSF\/African Roar <\/em>etc.) founded and run by publisher\/editor Ivor W. Hartmann. ZamaShort\u00a0is\u00a0solely focused on the amazing powerhouse that is the African short story. Each story is given its own publication to be read and enjoyed fully as a stand-alone digital publication, as well as releasing an annual anthology (<em>ZamaShort Volume One<\/em>, is the first) comprised of the twelve stories in each cycle, in print and digital. 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. In terms of translation (as per <em>SFinTranslation<\/em>), it is good to understand that most works you read from African authors in English\/French\/etc. have been translated directly by the authors; since English\/etc. are not usually our home languages, we all have learnt to be our own translators by necessity. And while there is an ongoing drive to publish works in our own languages, market forces and politics drive this necessity. 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