DOWNLOAD FULL SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES All submissions must be in English. Translations are acceptable and should be accompanied by a copy of the original text. Simultaneous submissions and excerpts from larger works are also acceptable. Please read recent issues of African Voices to acquaint yourself with materials the magazine has published before submitting. African Voices does not accept e-mailed submissions. Fiction manuscripts and essays should [ … ]
African Poetry Magazine
African Poetry Magazine aims to honour the work of organizations, publishers, book traders, agencies, institutions, donors, bloggers and others, with a notable commitment to African poetry African Poetry Magazine welcomes extended reports and reviews, critical commentaries on African Poetry and poets, life writing, whimsical essays and poetry-related travelogues. Submissions may focus on the work of one or more poets, poetry nations [ … ]
Writivism 2016 Creative Writing Workshops Call for Applications
A project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, Writivism identifies, mentors, publishes and promotes emerging African writers resident in any country in the Africa or in the Caribbean. Writivism provides creative writing workshops, online mentoring, newspaper publication of flash fiction, publication of an annual anthology, a schools’ programme, an annual short story prize for short fiction and an annual literary [ … ]
The Journal of African Cultural Studies Calls for Papers on ‘Boredom
Boredom has had many historians, and a number of book-length studies are available on the topic. Most of these are focused on the white male canon of western literature. In the edited collection by Paul Tyambe Zeleze and Cassandra Rachel Veney, Leisure in Urban Africa, leisure is theorised in ways that can usefully be placed alongside a new theory of boredom, and to [ … ]