Deadline: July 7, 2017. Gnarled Oak will be reading submissions for Issue 13 from June 24 to July 7. Gnarled Oak accepts poetry, prose, videos, and artwork. James Brush, its editor, favors shorter works. He prefers poems of less than 20 lines, prose works less than 1,000 words, and videos less than 7 minutes long. Send in 1-5 poems pasted in the body of an email, 1-2 prose pieces, 1-4 [ … ]
Submission Call: 2017 RL Poetry Award
Deadline: Aug. 5, 2017. The Poetry Mail invites you to submit to its 4th RL Poetry Award. Submit eight to 10 poems from manuscripts you currently work on or have completed. You can submit a mix of published and unpublished poems. Or, your manuscript can consist of only unpublished poems. Save all your poems as one single Word document. Indicate on [ … ]
Submissions Call: PRAXIS Response Chapbook
Deadline: July 21, 2017. Send in response poems for the next PRAXIS response chapbook, Around This Fire 5. PRAXIS recently published Iskandar Haggarty’s digital chapbook, There Are No Women in Our House. And, it currently seeks response poems to Haggarty’s chapbook. Email your response poems in the body of your email to halima@praxismagonline.com. Also, include “ATF5 Submission” as the subject line of the email. Same, include your [ … ]
Call for submission: Mounting the Moon Project
Deadline: Sept. 15, 2017. Unoma Azuah and Michelle Omas call for submissions to their Mounting the Moon project, a collection of queer Nigerian love poems. The Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act proposed in 2006 and passed in 2013 raised debates over sexual and gender rights in Nigeria. Homophobia and transphobia erupted in the public sphere. Threats and attacks against LGBT writers, activists, as [ … ]
The Machinery Submission
Deadline: June 30. After its last two themed issues, The Machinery has kept the theme open this time. You’re free to submit work in any genre, with any theme. You can submit up to 300-1000 words of flash fiction, up to 3 poems, and any artwork you may have. You can submit flash fiction of any genre, from high school drama to [ … ]
World Environment Day Writing Contest
Deadline: May 26, 2017 12:00 pm (noon) WAT. The U.S. Embassy Abuja sponsors this year’s World Environment Day Writing Contest to promote environmental awareness and literacy. Open to amateur, unpublished writers, submit an original short story to enter. Your entry should be a-1,500-3,500 word piece on the theme of “Connecting People to Nature.” You must be 18-35 years old and a resident of Nigeria to be [ … ]
AFREADA X Africa Writes Competition
Deadline: June 18 (23:59 BST). You could win $100 in the AFREADA X Africa Writes Competition. AFREADA and Africa Writes invite writers to send in a 500-word short story, loosely based on acclaimed Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou’s Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty. Written from 10-year-old Michel’s perspective, the story begins: In this country, a boss should always be bald and have a big belly. [ … ]
Submission Call: 2018 Golden Baobab Prize
Deadline: Dec. 1. Golden Baobab Prize invites African writers and illustrators to submit entries for this year’s prize. The Prize celebrates African writers and illustrators of children’s stories. It awards them for their work. Winners and longlisted entrants have to provide a copy of their passports or comparable documents. There are no restrictions on age or race. While it offers no theme, [ … ]
Pitch to Jacana Media
Pitch to Jacana Media Deadline: July 14, 2017. You can now pitch to Jacana Media. Like many publishers, it receives a large number of submissions of unsolicited manuscripts every week. This means hours spent wading through many emails as we try to give every author feedback on their work. Writers often try to arrange meetings with publishers, convinced that meeting the publisher in [ … ]
Submit: The Okike Prize for Literature
Deadline: June 5. The Okike Prize for Literature, a new Nigerian initiative, awards literary excellence amongst bright university undergraduates all over Nigeria. An Igbo word, Okike means creator. Though contextually, it means creativity. Right now, the initiative accepts fiction, poetry, and drama submission. Only Nigerian universities undergraduates can apply. Okike Prize for Literature offers no particular theme for this submission call. So, [ … ]
Black Letter Media Short Story Competition
Deadline: May 31, 2017 (11:59 p.m. South African Time). Black Letter Media seeks short stories from all over the world, written in English under the theme: The people shall. It wants stories that draw inspiration from this phrase, whether political or not. Stories submitted should take readers on a journey, capture the readers’ imagination and be unpredictable. The Annual Short Story competition celebrates the [ … ]
Residency: 7th FEMRITE Regional Residency
Deadline: July 15, 2017. FEMRITE announces calls for its 7th FEMRITE Regional Residency for African women writers, to be held in Kampala. Karavan, a quarterly Swedish literary magazine, will also co-host the residency. A women’s biggest challenge has always been a lack of space and time to write. FEMRITE seeks to provide space for women to write, to promote intercultural literary discourse, [ … ]
Submission Call: Mabati Cornell Kiswahili
Deadline: May 31, 2017. Cornell University awards $15,000 for its Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize yearly. The prize honors writers with unpublished manuscripts, or recently published books (within two years) written in Kiswahili. So, you can submit your manuscript or books in any of the fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and graphic novels categories. The $15,000 is divided into $5,000 for 1st place fiction, $5,000 for 1st place poetry, $3,000 for [ … ]
Commonwealth Youth Council: Unseen & Unspoken
Deadline: May 31, 2017 (1700 GMT). Commonwealth Youth Council launches Unseen & Unspoken to commemorate World Braille Day. It seeks to raise awareness about the experience and lives of young people with disabilities who the spotlight does not really shine on. Therefore, submit poetry around the theme: My disability does not define me. The disability can be visible or invisible disabilities such as [ … ]
Appel à contributions poétiques: A Song for Burundi
Limite pour la soumission: Avril 15. Huza Press en collaboration avec Africa Writes et Jalada Africa présent A Song for Burundi. Huza Press appel à contribution pour un recueil de poésis de Burundais vivant exile. Qui s’intitule A Song for Burundi, vise à rassembler des poèmes de defférentes formes, defférentes communautés et traditions qui explorent les expériences de migration et de chez-soi, de perte [ … ]
Huza Press: A Song for Burundi
Deadline: April 15. Huza Press announces A Song for Burundi, a poetry anthology collaboration with Africa Writes and Jalada Africa. A Song for Burundi will publish poems from Burundians living in exile. Huza Press seeks to explore the experience of migration, loss, belonging and hope. It will launch the anthology in London at the 2017 Africa Writes Festival. To apply, you must be a Burundian living outside Burundi. [ … ]
2017 Wasafiri New Writing Prize now open
Deadline: July 14 (5 p.m. GMT). For the 2017 Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Wasafiri welcomes poetry, fiction, and life writing (nonfiction) submissions from writers who haven’t published a complete book. It launched the Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2009 to support new writers of all ages, genders, nationalities and background. To enter, you have to pay an entry fee to apply for this [ … ]
Submit to the Anansesem Love Theme Issue
Deadline: not dated. Anansesem publishes children’s and young adult fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and illustration. It currently accepts submissions for its September 2017 issue, with a “Love” theme. Interpret personally or broadly what love means to you, the community, and the world in general. Send in up-to-five poems, one 2,000-word max short story, one 2,000-word max nonfiction, and a collection of up-to-five images. Type [ … ]
Call for Submissions: Boston Review’s Global Dystopias
Deadline: May 1, 2017. Junot Díaz, Boston Review‘s fiction editor, put out a special call for Global Dystopias submissions. Throughout 2017, Boston Review will feature stories, essays, and interviews on the theme of global dystopias. It will also publish a special print issue in the fall. So, submit essays, interviews, fiction, and creative non-fiction on the dystopia theme. Your submission may explore inequality/precarity, climate change, global [ … ]
Submit to the Electronic Pamphlet
Deadline: all year long. New e-magazine, Electronic Pamphlet reads all year long but publishes six times a year. The editions come out in February, April, June, August, October, and December of each year. So, for its current submission period, it seeks “bold, raw, experimental and quality works” Submit your fiction, poetry, artworks, nonfiction, cross-genre, and prose poems. You can submit [ … ]