Deadline: May 29. Omenana seeks works that explore alternative futures for Africa and people of African descent – with a preference for positive iterations. You can also explore the past as well as provide new interpretations of myths, folklore and magic. It does not accept graphic violent or sexual content. Omenana is a speculative fiction e-magazine that specializes in magical realism, fantasy, horror, and science fiction with African elements in them. [ … ]
Closed: Words that Travel: African Storytelling
Afrikult. presents the second of its three-part series Words that Travel. Running throughout 2016, each event focuses on particular mediums and traditions of African literature with the second featuring African storytelling. Words that Travel aims to showcase the wonderful and rich diversity within the African literary genre. The all day event will be held at SOAS, University of London. Afrikult. will host an Open Lit [ … ]
Modern Poetry in Translation Calls for African Poetry
Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) Opens Call for African Poetry. Its focus for this summer is on translations of poems originally written in African languages. As its name suggests, MPT publishes only unpublished translations of poems not originally written in English. While it has a preference for contemporary work, MPT is happy to receive work from any era. Modern Poetry in Translation Submission Guideline: You can submit up [ … ]
Bakwa Magazine Short Story Competition
Deadline: July 31, 2016. Cameroonians, submit to the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Competition. Founded in 2011, Bakwa is an online magazine that fills the lacuna created by the absence of high standard cultural and literary magazines in Cameroon. So, it focuses on cultural and literary criticism about Cameroon and Africa. It provides a space where African writers can be published, with the intention of [ … ]
Africa Writes Abstract Submission Calls
Africa Writes Abstract Submission Calls seeks submissions from Ph.D. students, early career scholars and independent researchers on ideas and approaches to African literatures. Africa Writes is an annual festival organised by the Royal African Society, which aims to promote contemporary African writing and writers as well as to explore Africa’s long literary past and its future. Academic discourse on African literatures [ … ]
Koffi Addo and Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prizes
Are you a Ghanaian writer or storytellers, whether fiction or non-fiction? Then, submit to both Koffi Addo and Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prizes. The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction is an annual award for emerging African writers resident in Ghana. While the The Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prize for Oral History is an annual award for emerging African writers and storytellers resident in Ghana. [ … ]
My Africa Photo Competition
As part of its 10th year anniversary, Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) invites Africans to submit to its My Africa Photo Competition. My Africa Photo Competition provides an opportunity for African photographers to capture their vision of Africa through their own lenses. MIF seeks images that capture Africa in its many diverse settings and communities, depicting what developments, challenges and opportunities could [ … ]
Submit to Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation
The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation, a one-off award for emerging African poets administered by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE), aims to award poets who write in African indigenous languages and translate their works. CACE seeks to celebrate bi-linguality and self-translation by African poets. To apply for the award, you must be a resident African emerging poet who is [ … ]
Apply to the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop
You get a chance to study with Chimamanda Adichie at the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop! Chimamanda Adichie, Farafina Trust’s creative director, will host the creative writing workshop in Lagos, from June 21 to July 1, 2016. Binyavanga Wainaina, Aslak Sira Myhre and others will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie. At the workshop, accepted participants will be assigned a wide range of reading exercises, [ … ]
2016 Writivism Short Story Prize Ends in 4 Days
The 2016 Writivism Short Story Prize is an annual award for emerging African writers administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). Entrants must be unpublished writers, resident in an African country. Only one entry per writer may be submitted for the Writivism Short Story Prize. The story must be original and previously unpublished in any form except on the writer’s [ … ]
The Caine Prize Workshop in Zambia
The Caine Prize on March 18 announced its upcoming Caine Prize Zambia workshop. Twelve writers from six African countries will convene at the Chaminuka Lodge near Lusaka for 13 days from March 18 – 29 to write, read and discuss work in progress and to learn from Jamal Mahjoub, Parker Bilal, and Caine Prize Deputy Chairperson Ellah Wakatama Allfrey OBE. The writers [ … ]
The Naked Convos’ The Writer Competition
The Naked Convos recently opened its The Writer Competition, which has been run for 3 successful editions. Twelve finalists will be shortlisted from the qualification entry submissions based on the quality of their flash fiction. These writers will be mentored by the The Naked Convos judges and will contest in four rounds of the contest. Three contestants will be evicted every week through public voting. [ … ]
Submit to the Project GirlSpire Short Story Anthology
Resources and Outreach for Liberia (ROL) seeks female writers to submit stories to its GirlSpire short story anthropology that will focus on female empowerment. Stories should be between 2,500- 5,000 words. Stories should be young adult or new adult, but can be dark and ominous, humorous, or even fantastical. ROL’s goal is to empower at-risk girls in post-war, and now, post-Ebola Liberia (West [ … ]
Submit to the New Orleans Review
Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy will be guest editing The African Literary Hustle, a New Orleans Review special print issue. You can submit to The African Literary Hustle your romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, and experimental fiction pieces, your satire, political allegory, and critical non-fiction, translations, or revised narratives, and your poetry. The African Literary Hustle specifications Prose submissions should be 7,500 words or fewer. Poetry [ … ]
FEMRITE Calls for Abstracts on Rethinking African Literature
FEMRITE, the Uganda Women Writer Association, invites scholars to submit 15–20 minute presentations abstracts to its international conference. The conference will be held at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda from July 28-30, 2016. The conference will be a platform for writers, scholars, literary critics and other interested parties to engage, rethink and propose possible new [ … ]
Saraba Magazine Nonfiction Manuscripts Call
Based on the limited number of nonfiction manuscripts submitted to its recent manuscript call, Saraba Magazine announces its Saraba Magazine nonfiction manuscripts call Saraba Magazine nonfiction manuscripts call requests proposals for nonfiction manuscripts such as memoirs, biographies, and reportage which would be completed by August 2016. Four writers will be commissioned for the nonfiction project. Writers should aim to work on manuscripts of 10,000 to 25,000 words. Each [ … ]
Uncanny Magazine Reopens Fiction Submission
Uncanny Magazine is currently OPEN to all short story submissions. Uncanny Magazine seeks original, unpublished speculative fiction stories between 750-6000 words from writers from every conceivable background. It wants intricate, experimental stories with gorgeous prose, verve, and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs. It believes there’s still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel. Payment is $.08 per word [ … ]
Let Us In |Horror Anthology| pays 6 cents p/w
Time Alone Press is working on its first horror anthology: Let Us In. Time Alone Press seeks stories of approx. 4,000 words (but, let the story decide). Poetry that keeps to the theme may have a chance, as well. The anthology has no set theme. So, basically, write about horrors that we invite into our lives, whether willingly or with reluctance. These [ … ]
nantygreens’ Poetry Submissions Call
nantygreens is putting together an anthology of poetry as part of a series of activities marking Professor Oloruntoba-Oju’s 50th birthday. nantygreens seeks poems that celebrate Professor Oloruntoba-Oju’s ideological vision, commitment, and consistency, her vibrant contributions to the critical reception of African and African Diaspora Literature, and her selflessness in transforming lives in the academia. nantygreens would appreciate poems that are rooted in [ … ]
Obsidian’s Special Issue Submissions
The editors of Obsidian invite you to participate in the journal’s celebration of four decades of excellence in the arts by submitting original unpublished work for its first double-volume issue exploring the speculative genre. Obsidian seeks original works that explore and reimagine black thought, black art, future and past. Selected works will appear in Obsidian’s fall 2016 double-issue edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and Nisi [ … ]