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About Author: Ivor Hartmann

Website: http://ivorhartmann.blogspot.com/
Description: Ivor W. Hartmann, is a Zimbabwean writer, currently based in Jhb, South Africa. He is the author of Mr. Goop (Vivlia, 2010), and was nominated for the UMA Award (2009), and awarded The Golden Baobab Prize (2009). His writing has appeared in African Writing Magazine, Wordsetc, Munyori Literary Journal, Something Wicked, and Sentinel Literary Quartley, amongst others. He is the editor/publisher of StoryTime, and co-editor/publisher African Roar.

Posts by Ivor Hartmann

Collected thoughts, excerpts, poems, and insights (mainly from 2011)

Posted on February 25, 2012 | 4 Comments
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...
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Call for submissions: a new SciFi anthology: AfroSF

Posted on February 25, 2012 | 6 Comments
Call for submissions: I am editing and publishing, AfroSF, a new African Science Fiction anthology. Really looking forward to reading what the writers come up with, and think on the...
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African Roar 2011: An annual anthology of African authors, First Release Now Out!

Posted on October 26, 2011 | No Comments
Happy to announce StoryTime’s second annual anthology, edited by Emmanuel Sigauke and myself, African Roar 2011 first release eBook edition is now out and about. Featuring fourteen awesome works from...
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How to succesfully irritate an editor

Posted on June 24, 2011 | 3 Comments
Warning: Just one and certainly all of these points combined are 100% guaranteed to work (and if they don't you're dealing with an alien from another planet with infinite patience, or, stupidity).
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Why writers need to learn when to shut the f**k up

Posted on June 3, 2011 | 1 Comment
Recently there has been a spate of illustrious writers really shoving their foot in their mouths, sometimes all the way up to the knee...
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ReadSA goes to Pietermaritzburg

Posted on April 8, 2011 | No Comments
On the 17th and 18th of March I had the pleasure of going to Pietermaritzburg and speaking to students at Orient Heights Primary School, from six primary schools (Orient Heights Primary, Greenhills Primary, Ramatha Road Primary, Springhaven Primary, Ridgeview Primary, and Northlands Primary).
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A Must-Read African authors books list

Posted on March 29, 2011 | 36 Comments
Awhile back there was a must-read list purportedly (it turned out not to be) from the Beeb doing the facebook rounds, and now its back in the form of an app. What greatly disappointed me then, and now, was the total absence of African authors on that list. So to remedy this dire oversight, and with your help, I'm composing an unlimited African authors only must-read books list here.
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Seven effective habits of happily unsuccessful people

Posted on March 15, 2011 | 3 Comments
A self-help satire that in all probability is never coming to a book-store's self-help section near you...
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Write what you Don’t Know

Posted on February 27, 2011 | 7 Comments
I often hear ‘write what you know’ being espoused to new fiction writers as a golden rule, and for awhile as a new writer I heeded it. Two minutes later, I realised how very poor literature would be if all writers did indeed follow that ‘golden rule’ to the letter, and so promptly abandoned it...
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Call for Submissions: New anthology titled and themed “Remembering Marechera”

Posted on January 13, 2011 | 3 Comments
To celebrate Dambudzo's posthumous 59th birthday this year I will be putting together an ebook anthology entitled "Remembering Marechera", consisting of essays, reviews, short stories, poems etc. that follow this theme, to be published by StoryTime Publishing. To this end I invite your submissions until the 6th of April 2011.
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