Dr Lizzy Attree

A short story I wrote a few years ago will be published on 1st July by @zamashort.com thanks to @ivorhartmann.bsky.social 'Guava Jam' is set in Salem, in the eastern cape, when Lucy finds herself alone one weekend in June... a knock on the door and a request for help... Enjoy!

Book Digest: Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Tananarive Due, Percy Zvomuya, Joséphine Tassy #NewBooks #Fiction #Nonfiction #BookSky www.writingafrica.com/book-digest-...

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

These excellent stories range from satire to science fiction, fantasy, horror, literary, and more, showcasing the incredible depth and range of contemporary African authors at work today. Foreword by Eugen Bacon.

You should get this!!

Introducing ZamaShort Volume One! The debut multi-genre annual anthology of the first twelve stories from the ongoing ZamaShort singles series. Boldly African with no compromise. Pre-Orders available in Hardback, Paperback, and eBook. Release: 8th November 2026. #AfricanLit #AfricanSFF #booksky 💙📚

Robert Mugabe: The Black Victorian x Percy Zvomuya 356 pp. October 15, 2026, Jonathan Ball Publishers. Non-fiction. My middle sister, when she was small and could still be carried, was obsessed with “The President”; so of course when one day we were at the Trade Fair—a local event for business…

Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

@adamcsharp.bsky.social please add to this list 1. Motorway (English) 2. Autobahn (German) 3. Zoomweg (Dutch) 4. Autoroute (French) 5. Autostrada (Italian) 6. Kosoku doro (Japanese) 7. Snelweg (Afrikaans) 8. Barabara kuu (Kiswahili) 9. Moottoritie (Finnish) 10. Ara matua (Maori)

I’ve reviewed the return of the absurd & excellent The Diplomat.

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Belatedly, books I'm reading that are out this week. (Soooo much wonderful reading.) Happy pub day @dambakushamba.bsky.social !

Remy Bastien, nicknamed “Tiny Hawk,” pulls off an insane BACKFLIP at CJ's Skatepark in Canada. He is 8-years-old. #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Amazing/s/...

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

I am so excited for Percy Zvomuya's Mugabe book emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... #TheBlackVictorian out on 15 Oct 2026 with #JonathanBall

Out today from Jonathan Ball in South Africa. A masterful biography by #PercyZvomuya. 10 years of research, the extraordinary #BlackVictorian

Out today from Jonathan Ball in South Africa. A masterful biography by #PercyZvomuya. 10 years of research, the extraordinary #BlackVictorian

The future of four large research networks that test vaccines and treatments for HIV, tuberculosis and emerging infectious diseases is in limbo after weeks of delays from the Trump administration in launching the process to renew their funding.

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

Trump critic Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home searched by federal agents https://aje.news/ae4pzt

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Recent literary scandals around A.I., many of which focus on Black and brown writers, are filled with “considerable and alarming” accusations, Doyle Calhoun writes. “But they have been leveled by groups with clear political agendas.”

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

Today Navi Pillay has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law. Read more about this year’s Nobel Peace Prize: bit.ly/4yB3yfM

New anti-Data Center graphics package just dropped on our free downloads page! justseeds.org/graphic/no-m...

Today, we are proud to announce a new creative writing scholarship at the University of East Anglia, in honour of Eve Smith, the Booker Prize Foundation's former Company Secretary, who would have been 68 today. 🔗 To find out more and how to apply for the scholarship, tap the link below.

The Booker Prize Foundation is joining up with the University of East Anglia (UEA) on a new creative writing scholarship, in honour of the foundation’s former company secretary Eve Smith. 👇

A lawsuit about an alleged gang rape at Cornell University and a report about sexual cyberharassment reveal how campus rape culture and online misogyny are colliding, @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues:

#IsmailAlexandrani: Freed once, silenced again. Award-winning Egyptian journalist covering Sinai, arrested 24 Sept 2025 on terrorism charges over Facebook posts, after serving 7 years following a grossly unfair trial. PEN calls for his immediate, unconditional release. #EmptyChair #PENCongress

I am so excited for Percy Zvomuya's Mugabe book emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... #TheBlackVictorian out on 15 Oct 2026 with #JonathanBall

Efemia Chela is a Zambian-Ghanaian writer, nominated for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2014 and shortlisted for the Gerald Kraak Prize in 2017. She is currently working on her debut novel at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a contributing editor for the The Johannesburg Review of Books.

Subscriber copies for ZamShort #17 now out! If you'd like advance ZamaShort copies right to your inbox every month try out one of our subscription options! #booksky 💙📚 #AfricanSFF #Africanlit

Macklemore pledges his $1m Ed Sheeran tour salary to Palestine

What even is hand roasted coffee?

Top Reform UK advisers step down after donor sting ft.trib.al/x29jJ9v

Farage aides step down after undercover report on Reform UK donations

The Nigel Farage and Reform foreign donations scandal excluded from all but one national newspaper front page this morning. No sign of it at all on the front pages of the two papers which splashed the polls secretly funded by a Reform donor earlier this year

The Times & Telegraph laundered illicitly funded Reform polls onto their front pages as ‘exclusives’ yet not a single word on their sites. UK political journalism is so very broken

Stop whatever you’re doing & watch this now! Reform’s magic money tree has been bust wide open. Huge kudos to undercover reporters Verbatim via @channel4news.bsky.social youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI?... huge

It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tim Curry’s commitment to silliness was “why he was able to imbue even his villains with a particular allure,” Emma Stefansky argues. She examines the actor’s turn as the reticent butler in “Clue”:

My coffee shop #BrownsofBrockley playing #DollyParton all day! #CupofAmbition

My coffee shop #BrownsofBrockley playing #DollyParton all day! #CupofAmbition

All our authors on Bsky! #AfricanSFF #AfricanLit #booksky 🪐📚💙

New excerpt up! 'Guava Jam' by Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social, ZamaShort #15. #AfricanLit #ContemporaryFiction #booksky 💙📚

Meet the Author Blaize M. Kaye @bomoko.bsky.social, 'Ethics after the End of the World', ZamaShort #16, (includes his essay). #AfricanSFF #Africanfuturism #booksky 🪐📚💙

‘Explosive’ wildfire forces 20,000 people to flee as British Columbia declares state of emergency

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