Sauúti Published Works

A full list of all published Sauúti related works and how to find them.

NOVELLA: 'Descent' by Wole Talabi

Take a deep dive into a new Sauúti story: Descent by Wole Talabi available in the May 2025 edition of Clarkesworld Magazine.
Teaser: It follows Gwaato, adopted child of a geodynamics genius who embarks on a mission to map out the lower regions of the planet where no one has been before and perhaps in the process, prove his mother wrong. But Órino-Rin is an unforgiving planet and there is a price to all knowledge. This is at its heart, a story about traditional epistemology, the weight of parental expectations and the limits of all knowledge.

'Epistles to Our Mother' by Eugen Bacon– RELEASED: READ ONLINE

'Epistles to Our Mother' – available to read in a special issue of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) Text Journal on writing from the fringes.

"The juxtaposition of prose and poetry, known words and invented language, is creative and a pleasure to read. The humour underlying the narration creates a shared understanding between narrator and reader. For example, ‘They all bargained, harangued, cajoled and threatened, until the urgency of the situation passed.'"

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NOVEMBER 2024 Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy

Songs for the Shadows by Cheryl S. Ntumy is available for purchase – and just the beginning for decades - or centuries - of #Sauútiverse collaborative African storytelling! Curious?

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"Set in the Sauúti universe and tightly packed with rich worldbuilding, Songs for the Shadows is crafted in beautiful prose and depth, meditating on silence and sound and song as powerful cultural entities—a magic system of sound excavation and the folding and manipulation of time that blew me away!” — Tlotlo Tsamaase, Caine Prize Finalist and author of Womb City