Deadline: May 25, 2024 (Africa Day) at 12pm Forced Migration and The Arts, in collaboration with CivicLeicester and Regularise, is inviting poems on the theme of African migration. They welcome submissions from writers of all ages and locations worldwide. The anthology aims to explore personal, familial, community, and national histories and experiences related to African migration. This includes the images, [ … ]
Submit to The New Voices Award
Deadlines: April 30th The New Voices Award supports unpublished, unrepresented writers looking to develop a new work in progress. It provides mentorship and editorial guidance, encouraging entries from all backgrounds with an original story. The prize is exclusively for unpublished writers. Writers must not be represented by a literary agent, or be under an existing or future contract to any [ … ]
ECA issues Call for Decade of Action
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2021. The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is issuing a call for The Decade of Action Short Stories an initiative targeted at young African creatives in an effort to broaden the conversation, awareness and re-imagination of the Sustainable Development Goals through fiction. Young Africans born in Africa or with either of the two parents as African are [ … ]
Submit to The South African Artist magazine
Deadline: rolling basis The SA Artist magazine is offering you the opportunity to get your art published. Simply complete the form and upload up to 10 (min 3) images (no larger than 2mb each). Submit your art through its submission form. The South African Artist magazine is the only practical visual arts magazine in South Africa. Content includes interviews and [ … ]
Submit to Botsotso Magazine
Deadline: rolling Send original, unpublished work in any South African language. All submissions are welcome. Be careful to keep a copy when submitting. Please remember to include your contact details: name, postal and email address, telephone number. Send submissions to . Does not accept simultaneous submission. However, should you wish to withdraw work from Botsotso, kindly inform the team. All [ … ]
Submit to African Writer Magazine
Deadline: rolling basis African Writer is open to all genres of literature from Africa and the African Diaspora. The team publishes prose fiction, creative non-fiction, folktales, poetry, dramatic pieces, essays/creative features, interviews/profiles, book excerpts/reviews, etc. Ensure all entries are single line spaced, and in standard Times New Roman 12pt. font. Also, ensure that the submission is properly edited for errors. [ … ]
Pitch to New African Woman Magazine
Email: contact@nawmagazine.com New African Woman offers intelligent, in-depth and inspirational features, news and visuals on a diverse range of issues that truly speak to and resonate with the modern Black woman while celebrating their diverse accomplishments and aspirations in all spheres, with expert analysis and insights. Team welcomes both female and male contributors. It is recommended that you send an [ … ]
Submit to Flash Fiction Ghana
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2021 Flash Fiction Ghana announces the opening of submissions to its writing prize, “A 1000 for 1000 Writing Prize”. For its inaugural year, the prize will accept Young Adult Literature in 1000 words or less. Individual submissions can be on any theme in either Fiction or Creative Nonfiction. The prize will award the top three winners from [ … ]
Submit: The Shallow Tales Review
Deadline: 20th of each publishing month The Shallow Tales Review accepts fiction, articles, reviews, poems, one-act plays, essays, art photographs, and thoughts that touch on the sensibilities of the African. Literary criticisms must concern texts that are of modern and African temperament. For essays, you should tackle themes logically and as clearly as possible. Feel free to break genre restrictions as [ … ]
African Writing Online
Has a preference for new, unpublished work. Natural constituency of writers and material are African or Diasporan (please interpret boldly) but will publish any writer who writes into the African Condition (please interpret boldly). We are adventurous in our definition of Africana, but we will also publish good literature generally. Please read African Writing Online before submitting. If you are [ … ]
Submit to Stripes Magazine
Deadline: Dec. 10, 2020 Stripes Magazine is open for submission; seeking contributors for our E–Issue themed ‘FRUITS’ Stripes Magazine is a literary magazine on a mission to showcase the beginner and emerging writer by being a home for the raw and different. You may write on whatever topic, issue or idea only make sure to allude to a fruit, refer [ … ]
Call for Submission: U-Rights Magazine
Deadline: Nov. 25, 2020. U-Rights Magazine, an online magazine based in Cross River state, calls for submission of original poetry, fiction/non-fiction, and digital content for its first issue. The team publishes works from anywhere in the world three times a year, though it hopes to publish more of African Writings. It accepts submissions via email. All submissions should be sent [ … ]
Kalahari Review
Kalahari Review is an African-eccentric magazine interested in material exploring Africa and Africans in unique and avant-garde ways. Telling new stories from everyday African life as told by the people that are living it. It seeks stories that have not often been told but should be – through voices that have not yet been heard – but should. The Kalahari [ … ]
Submit to the Akuko Magazine Inaugural Literary Contest
Deadline: Nov. 30, 2020. Akuko is a new online magazine that aims to champion writing by Black writers from the African continent and its vast diaspora. Akuko means story in Igbo and rooster in Yoruba. It defines Africa not by the physical continent but by its descendants spread all over the Diaspora. Akuko is currently open for submissions to our inaugural [ … ]
Submit to Inside Wants Out
Deadline: November 1, 2020 The spoken word in Africa has evolved over time and continues to serve many purposes. Tinzwe Media launched Inside Wants Out to provide a creative outlet and opportunity for writers and poets while trying to recreate themselves and conquer the daily challenges of the pandemic. African writers and poets from around the continent are encouraged to submit [ … ]
Submit to Gemini Spice Magazine
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2020. Gemini Spice Magazine plans to release its first issue, “We Will Survive COVID,” in October. It seeks essays, poems, commentaries, think pieces, personal stories, features, rants, art pieces, etc. from writers, poets, activists, artists from all over the world, regardless of age, gender, race religion, and other barriers. Gemini Spice Magazine is the first-ever Kenyan [ … ]
Submit to the QueryLetter Writing Contest
Deadline: Sept. 15, 2020 QueryLetter has a writing contest about book blurbs. The twist? They want blurbs about completely made-up, nonexistent books. Write and submit a back cover blurb of 100 words or fewer that sets the stage for a novel, establishes the characters, and raises the stakes in a way that makes readers want to find out more. Get creative! [ … ]
Submit Manuscript to PAROUSIA Magazine
Deadline: June 30, 2020. PAROUSIA Magazine, a Christian magazine, calls for manuscript submissions. Any writer can submit regardless of age, experience or location, as long as the submission adheres to Christian publication standards. A complete submission should include: A cover letter that includes your name, address, telephone, email, and a signed statement that all the poems are your own original work. Your [ … ]
Praxis Call for Submissions – Journal Stories
Deadline: Not dated Teju Cole in his Eight Letters to a Young Writer advises any aspiring writer to keep a journal and write in it every day. Do you? But keeping a journal is not the preserve of writers because any introspective person, with literary skill or not, will soon write as a way to escape or understand or reveal [ … ]
Submit to PRAXIS: a journal of writing + building
Deadline: Ongoing, all year-round. PRAXIS welcomes submissions of essays, projects, and responses to articles published by PRAXIS. Materials submitted are subject to editorial review and/ or external refereeing. All PRAXIS issues are themed, so projects or articles are selected in light of each issue’s particular subject. Published twice-yearly by an all-volunteer staff, PRAXIS has received critical acclaim as well as [ … ]