“Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”-Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko. Like a gust of fresh cold winter’s air on a midsummer’s day Russian author Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko steps up and revitalises a favourite fantasy world; presenting an eternal struggle between good and evil in a new and blinding light. With not a damn cape, count or coffin to be seen i... Read Full Story
African Roar is ST's first book anthology, in what is going to become an annual publication. For the debut, all works currently at ST and those published by the 20th of July, (which fit the anthology guidelines), are up for selection in the anthology. But as the sub-title says, this is an eclectic anthology and will only feature the absolute best of all the works at ST. In the next anthology it will be the best of that year.African Roar will be edited by Emmanuel Sigauke and Ivor W. Hart... Read Full Story
I am ecstatic to announce that my entry Mr. Goop, into The Baobab Prize in category B (works written for children aged 12-15) has won the award!It was with profound sense of great honour that I accepted The Baobab Prize, and my proud privilege as an Zimbabwean writer to have entered and participated, in this much needed stimulus to African writing. It has long been a dream of mine to see African fiction in all genres become much more readily available. So when I came across TBP I saw friends... Read Full Story
I am happy to announce that Earth Rise has been nominated for The UMA Award in the Best Short Fiction category.More formally known as the Annual Anthropomorphic Literature and Arts Award, the Ursa Major Award is presented annually for excellence in the furry arts. It is intended as Anthropomorphic Fandom's equivalent of the Hugo Award ® presented by the World Science Fiction Society, mystery fandom's Anthony Award, horror fandom's Bram Stoker Award, and so forth. Anyone may nomin... Read Full Story
Ivor W. Hartmann is a Zimbabwean writer, visual artist and literary activist. He is also editor-in-chief of StoryTime, an ezine that seeks to showcase new African writing. In this email interview, Hartmann talks about the ezine and about how it is being received by emerging African writers. What is StoryTime all about? To quote the StoryTime About page mission statement if I may, since I put the effort into re-writing it recently: "The StoryTime African New Fiction FreEzine is all about... Read Full Story
Welcome to my cyberhome! Here you will find three main links above that will give you access to my autobiography - About, online fiction works - Fiction and non-fiction works - Non-Fiction. You can can follow my progress and be updated though the Follow Widget or by subscribing to my Feeds. There are also several links that head towards various external sites where I am present. Below this you will see short posts of my two most recent works. I hope altogether this will give you some idea abo... Read Full Story
The Lottery by Ivor W. Hartmann #01'What are we now? Can we really call ourselves human any more? What of our souls, heaven, and hell?' -Emergency Online Transference FAQ's. Israel Sabula was a newly transferred and he did not like it. He had awoken from death in this white chair, to this white room and its barren smooth lines. A far cry from the bubbling and whirring room of machines wired into his dying body, which saw his lonely departure from that mortal coil. There was an ut... Read Full Story
How Alchemy changed the World #3 Part Three: Al-kimia transformed into Alchemie. As one star of Alchemy was fading another rose to the sky during Europe’s High Middle Ages. Fuelled by incoming Greek texts not seen since Roman times, and astounded by advanced Islamic texts, the Renaissance of the 12th century had begun. Kick started at the end of the Early Middle Ages by a Frenchman called Gerbert d'Aurillac, who under Roman Catholic monastic orders went to study mathematics in Spain. On... Read Full Story
Ivor W. Hartmann currently lives, writes, and plays whilst rattling the shackles of economic slavery and exile between Harare, Zimbabwe, and Johannesburg, South Africa.Ivor was born in the 70's the youngest of three siblings in the Sunshine City of Harare, Zimbabwe. Which of course meant he was a teen in the 80's and did indeed at some point, (during holidays home from the tragedy of boarding school) wear a pastel, sleeve-rolled jacket, when seriously getting down to Duran Duran. But ... Read Full Story
This section features some of my visual artistry. Though unfortunately I can't display any work really from around 1992-2000. These were mostly my fine art years and seven of those were as an exhibiting fine artist. During this period I primarily worked with oil paints on canvas and had very little of it photographed, as I should have. So now practically all but two works and a few aged photo's, are dispersed around the world along with the Zimbabwean Diaspora.Book CoversThese are som... Read Full Story
