Deadline: Oct. 15 (11:59 p.m. EDT). Art Omi: Writers, formerly known as Ledig House, hosts authors and translators from around the world for residencies throughout the spring and fall. Residents select a residency of one week to two months. The residency involves ten writers, at a time, gathering to live and work in a rural setting overlooking the Catskill Mountains. Art Omi is [ … ]
The Manchester Fiction Prize
Deadline: Sept. 14, 2018, 5 p.m. (UK time). Open internationally, the Manchester Fiction Prize awards a £10,000 prize to the best short story submitted. Any writer, new or established, can apply as long as the writer is aged 16 and above. Cost of entry is £17.50 (sterling) per story submitted. To enter, you have to submit a short story of up to [ … ]
Submit to the 2018 African Writers Award
Deadline: Oct. 13, 2018. Every year, the African Writers Development Trust (AWDT) hosts the African Writers Award as the highpoint of the African Writers Conference (AWC). The conference brings together writers of African descent to facilitate networking, provide opportunities and sustain a conversation on advancing the collective interests of African writers. The theme of the 2018 AWC is “Re-imagining African Literature: New Voices, [ … ]
Submit to Poetica: The African Girl Child
Deadline: Sept. 10, 2018. Poetica, a new African poetry magazine published by the African Writers Development Trust, is delighted to announce its maiden call for entries for its quarterly publication. Dedicated to discovering the finest poems by African writers, the magazine seeks exceptional poems on the theme: The African Girl Child. The theme for the debut is in conformity with the African [ … ]
The Emma Press launches call for poems about insects for children’s anthology
Deadline: October 5, 2018. The Emma Press has launched a call for poems about insects, for a children’s anthology to be edited by Fran Long and Dr. Isabel Galleymore. The anthology will be part of the publisher’s continuing series of themed anthologies of poetry for children. It accepts we welcome international submissions, as long as you have bought an Emma [ … ]
The Emma Press calls for submissions of poems on illness
Deadline: August 31, 2018. Send your poems on illness to The Emma Press for publication in its anthology launching in April 2019. You may submit up to three poems. Amy Mackelden and Dylan Jaggard will edit the anthology. Amy Mackelden is a poet and writer who co-founded the poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog and is the Weekend Editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. Dylan Jaggard has been published [ … ]
Call for Submission: Africa in Dialogue
Deadline: July 30, 2018. Africa in Dialogue engages in dialogues with Africa’s leading storytellers on various contemporary, historical, philosophical and social discourses that affect Africans in Africa and the Diaspora. It invites Africans to submit original, unpublished dialogues with African storytellers. Billy Kahora, renown writer and managing editor of Kwani?, will guest-edit the second issue. Send in original and unpublished interviews no longer than [ … ]
2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize: Hotel Africa
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2018. Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) now accepts submissions for its 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize. The winner will receive $800, the runner-up $200 and the second runner-up $100. So, submit one 3,000-5,000, previously unpublished piece of short fiction that explores identity, like themes of gender identity and sexuality. According to Short Story Day Africa, Check-in … To [ … ]
Enter the SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition
Deadline: July 31, 2018. The SCrIBE scriptwriting competition provides an opportunity for South African writers to have their work produced and showcased. To enter, you must be 21+ years South African resident. You must currently reside in South Africa. To apply, email a submit a completed entry form and your Microsoft Word document script to imbewusa@gmail.com, titled “Playwriting Competition”. The script must [ … ]
Apply to the Prague-City of Literature residency program
Deadline: August 31, 2018, 12 am CET. Since October 2015, Prague – City of Literature offers residency stays for foreign writers and translators. It runs six residencies every year, which last two months. Its selection process happens during August and September. The program provides accommodation for free, a stipend of 600 euro per month and reimburses residents’ return ticket. To apply, send [ … ]
Submit to Afro Anthology x Enkare Review
Deadline: Sept. 10, 2018. Afro Anthology x Enkare Review call for short story submissions from writers of African citizenship or African descent. So, submit a fictional work that centers around a blind protagonist or has blindness as its core theme. There are over five million blind citizens in Africa and over 285 million suffer from visual impairment of some kind. Send [ … ]
Submit to Big Pond Rumours
Summer Deadline: June 30 Winter Deadline: December 30. Big Pond Rumours is an international literary E-Zine that publishes poetry, story, literary essays and biographies. The publication supports emerging and established authors by exposing them to an international online audience. It releases two issues each year, Summer and Winter. It seeks quality poems and short stories. Poems could be up to 6 pages [ … ]
Stellenbosch University Museum Calls for Submission
Deadline: July 16, 2018. Stellenbosch University Museum encourages artists to submit proposals for artworks that engage with ideas around the future of higher education in the next 100 years. It will be exhibiting the artworks as part of the Stellenbosch University Centenary, open December 5, 2018. It wants compelling, innovative and thought-provoking works that will serve as catalysts for debate and engagement [ … ]
Empty Mirror seeks nonfiction and art
Deadline: none. Empty Mirror, an online literary magazine, publishes non-fiction, poetry, and art every Friday. It accepts submissions year-round. And, it is committed to diversity and inclusiveness. Submit 3-6 previously unpublished poems together in one document. Don’t double-space your poems unless they must be presented that way when published. For visual art, send 3-12 images of at least 750 pixels, united by [ … ]
PIAD OPENLab 2018
Deadline: May 4, 2018. The Programme for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD) presents OPENLab 2018, a national laboratory for early and mid-career artists and creative practitioners. Applicants must be South African citizens or have permanent resident status in South Africa. Proof of citizenship or residency may be required. It is an open and intensive residency platform aimed to generate new [ … ]
Wawa Book Review Young Literary Critics Fellowship Competition
Deadline: April 30, 2018. Enter the 2018 Wawa Book Review Young Literary Critics Fellowship Competition. Wawa Book Review will offer 10 reviewers a ten-month fellowship. The competition and the fellowship are open to all students in Nigerian universities who were under the age of 35. During the fellowship, the reviewers will receive practical training in literary criticism, new books from around the continent, and a [ … ]
Mo Issa Writing Workshops by Writers Project of Ghana
Deadline: April 23rd, 2018. Writers Project of Ghana calls for submission to the first edition of its Mo Issa Writing Workshops. The workshop series will run on weekends over a five-month period. It will involve workshops, discussion sessions, and online interactions with accomplished writers and other facilitators. To apply, send an e-mail with the subject “Mo Issa Writing Workshops” to submissions@writersprojectghana.com. Include a [ … ]
Submit your Manuscript to The Normal School Nonfiction Series
Deadline: May 1, 2018 Outpost19 publishes The Normal School Nonfiction Series, a series compelling and thought-provoking creative nonfiction, essay, and literary journalism books. Outpost19 wants immersive and reportage based writing, socio-cultural and political criticism, pop culture analysis, and essayistic prose that artfully blends the personal and public. It is also interested in lyric essays, hybrid nonfiction, research-driven memoir, and the sort of engaging and eclectic nonfiction [ … ]
Submit to Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel
Deadline: May 17, 2018. Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel exists to draw attention to every part of the scene so that people are able to see and hear the images and voices excluded from the conventional, narrow travel narrative. Panorama emphasizes writing and photography which is created with a deep intelligence, reconnecting us to the world. Panorama calls for you to submit [ … ]
Submission Call: Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
Deadline: June 30, 2018. Jacana Media calls for submissions, written in English, for its 2018 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. Dinaane aims to promote new southern African fiction that speaks to both a local and international audience. It encourages new writers and new readers by publishing material which would likely otherwise not have been selected – for purely commercial reasons – [ … ]