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Ivor W. Hartmann

Ivor W. Hartmann is a Zimbabwean writer, editor, publisher, and visual artist. Awarded The Golden Baobab Prize (2009), finalist for the Yvonne Vera Award (2011), selected for The 20 in Twenty: The Best Short Stories of South Africa’s Democracy (2014), and awarded Bronze in the Jalada Prize for Literature (2015). His works have appeared in many publications. He runs the StoryTime micro-press, publisher of the African Roar and AfroSF series of anthologies. He is a founding member of the African Speculative Fiction Society, and on the advisory board of Writers International Network Zimbabwe.

Bibliography:

AfroSFv3 (anthology) (StoryTime, Ed. & Publisher, December 2018)

'Emergence' (short story) (Brittle Paper, Oct 2016)

AfroSFv2 (anthology) (StoryTime, Ed. & Publisher, Dec, 2015)

'Last Wave' (short story) (Afrofuture(s), January, 2015)

African Roar 2014 (anthology) (StoryTime, Editor/Publisher, September 2014)

'Catwalk' (short story) (Litro#137, September 2014)

'Our Fathers Are Gone' (poem) (Nigerians Talk Literature Magazine, November, 2013) (Zimbolicious anthology, Jun 2016)

African Roar 2013 (anthology) (StoryTime, publisher, October 2013)

AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers (anthology) (StoryTime, editor/publisher, December 2012)

African Roar 2012 (anthology) (StoryTime, Co-editor/publisher, December 2012)

'Funeral Gastronomy' (short story) (Munyori Literary Journal, July 2012)

'Size Matters' (short story) (Saraba#11, March, 2012)

African Roar 2011 (anthology) (StoryTime, Co-editor/publisher, octber 2011)

'Inviolable' (poem) (Sun and Snow Anthology 2011, November 2011, Rhythm International, Canada)

'In Pursuit of True AI' (essay) (Something Wicked#11, July 2011)

'A Mouse amongst Men' (short story) (StoryTime#152, August 2011) (finalist 2011 Intwasa Yvonne Vera Award) (Performance read by Rick Cook for Stories on Stage (Sacramento) African writers edition, June 2011) (African Roar 2012 anthology, December 2012) (Nigerians Talk Literature Magazine, November 2013) (selected for The 20 in Twenty: The Best Short Stories of South South Africa’s Democracy, July 2014)

'Diner Ten' (short story) (StoryTime#95 June 2010) (African Roar 2011 anthology, StoryTime, 2011)

'Chrome Rain' (short story) (Excerpt, Paulo Coelho's Blog, May 2009)

'Mr. Goop' (short story) (Awarded a Golden Baobab Prize, March 2009) (African Writing#7, April 2009, UK) (illustrated book, Vivlia Publishers, South Africa, 2010) (The Apex Book of World SF 2, Apex, August 2012)

African Roar (anthology) (StoryTime, Co-editor/publisher, July 2010)

Amelias Inheritance - Sarudzai Mubvakure' (review) (Sentinel Literary Quartley Vol.3. No. 3. June 2010)

'Lost Love' (short story) (StoryTime#22, February 2009) (anthology, African Roar, StoryTime, June 2010)

'Black Diamond - Zakes Mda' (review) (Wordsetc#7, March 2010)

'From Caves of Rotten Teeth - A. Igoni Barrett' (review) (African Writer, September 2009)

'Yvonne Vera: The Fearless Taboo Queen' (essay) (Munyori Literary Journal, March 2009) (Kubatana, April 2009)

'The Lottery' (short story) (StoryTime#13, December 2008)

'The Devil's Advocate' (short story) (StoryTime#11, October 2008) (Something Wicked#12, August 2011) (Something Wicked Anthology#1, September 2012)

'The Blue Flower Mountain' (short story) (StoryTime#2, August 2007)

'Earth Rise' (short story) (StoryTime#1, June 2007) (Something Wicked#7, August 2008) (finalist UMA Award March 2009)


“...they were always going somewhere yet seemingly nowhere, some house, some club, some river, some place, all fixed by a nowhere ring of familiar faces.”
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“She danced alone with her eyes closed, and seemed to move to a beat more powerful than what ears alone could hear.”
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“If you put everyone else first you'll always be last, but if you always put yourself first you will never last.”
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“Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience.”
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