All ZamaShort authors earnings settled for 2025, we're not making fat stacks but neither are we earning nothing :). So thank you to everyone who subscribed and bought our books, it is quite literally the only funding we receive.
You are most welcome Hussani! Such a great story, it was our honour to publish it!
Oops, sorry, left out Hussani's tag you can find him here: @hussani14.bsky.social
(We have a new permanent Authors section at our website, this will feature all the authors published with their biography and essay, starting with Hussani, will add everyone else in due course, please for now enjoy Hussani's excellent essay!)
ZamaShort Extras: Meet the Author Hussani Abdulrahim! ZamaShort #11 'Gold-Plated Boy'
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Gold-Plated Boy is now available for purchase! Thanks to the incredible folks at @zamashort.com . Please buy, read, enjoy, and recommend! Thank you 🙏
She co-founded The Third Space, a bookstore and hub, and hosts Conversations with Nana, a podcast amplifying African poetry.
Many thanks Nana!
She is a winner of the 2024 Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Non-Fiction and author of Not So Terrible People, a collection of short stories. Beyond writing, Nana has spent nearly a decade building dialogue around literature and the arts.
Nana Sule is a writer, editor, and cultural curator whose work explores memory, community, and decolonial imagination. Her writing has appeared in Agbowo, Isele Magazine, Arts-Muse Fair, and other literary spaces.
“...as dazzling as it is unsettling. His storytelling is original. He reminds us that the most astonishing machinery is still the human imagination, and in his hands, it is limitless.” — Nana Sule, author of Not So Terrible People.
Nana Sule on 'Gold-Plated Boy' by Hussani Abdulrahim
@hussani14.bsky.social ZamaShort #11
“Abdulrahim is a writer of rare imaginative force. In ‘Gold-Plated Boy’, he unites technology, ambition, envy, oppression, and human frailty into a tale...
#AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #scifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Nana Sule is a writer, editor, and cultural curator whose work explores memory, community, and decolonial imagination. Her writing has appeared in Agbowo, Isele Magazine, Arts-Muse Fair, and other literary spaces.
“...as dazzling as it is unsettling. His storytelling is original. He reminds us that the most astonishing machinery is still the human imagination, and in his hands, it is limitless.” — Nana Sule, author of Not So Terrible People.
“...as dazzling as it is unsettling. His storytelling is original. He reminds us that the most astonishing machinery is still the human imagination, and in his hands, it is limitless.” — Nana Sule, author of Not So Terrible People.
Excellent and first review for @hussani14.bsky.social Hussani Abdulrahim's 'Gold-Plated Boy' ZamaShort #11 by Ahmad Mubarak Tanimu in JAY lit.
Many thanks Ahmad!
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Congrats to T.L. Huchu on the BSFA shortlisting of Secrets of the First School! We loved publishing the prequel short story 'When Two Sorcerers Collide' ZamaShort #7, and greatly look forward to his next endeavour. bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...
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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.
The ZamaShort imprint series is solely focused on the amazing powerhouse that is the short story. We give each short story its own publication so that it may be read and enjoyed fully as a stand-alone publication.
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Released 1st March 2026.
‘Gold-Plated Boy’ is Available Here:
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He lives in Kano, Nigeria, and is working on both a novel and a short story collection.
Hussani’s work has appeared in Boston Review, Wilted Pages, Ubwali Literary Magazine, Tasteful: A Literary Cannibal Anthology, Brave New Weird Anthology (Tenebrous Press), Brittle Paper, Evergreen Review, Solarpunk, Ibua Journal, The Flametree Project, and Afritondo Prize anthologies.
He was a participant in the Flame Tree Writers’ Workshop co-facilitated by award-winning writers Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Chika Unigwe in 2024. He also participated in the 2025 Kokonut Head Media Virtual Residency Programme.
He won the 2023 Writivism Short Story Prize, Ibua Journal’s 2023 Bold Call, and the 2016 Green Author Prize. He has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Afritondo Prize, Boston Review’s Aura Estrada Short Fiction Contest, and the BWR Summer Fiction Contest.
Hussani Abdulrahim is a Nigerian writer. He has a degree in Pure Chemistry from Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. Hussani’s short story ‘Arewa Boys’, which won the Toyin Falola Prize (2022), was shortlisted for the 2024 ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award.
Abdulrahim is a writer of rare imaginative force. In ‘Gold-Plated Boy’, he unites technology, ambition, envy, oppression, and human frailty into a tale as dazzling as it is unsettling.” — Nana Sule, author of Not So Terrible People.
