Deadline: April 6, 12 a.m. EAT. For the Anasoma Writing Contest, AMKA seeks original, unpublished content that inspires and promotes empowerment of Kenyan girls and women. Note, only Kenyans can enter the Anasoma Writing Contest. Five winners will receive $1,000 each and get published digitally and in print. To participate, send in a 500-word pitch to anasoma@amka.or.ke. You can pitch a book, comic, biography, etc. Your [ … ]
2017 SA Writers College Short Story Competition
Deadline: April 30. Send in your previously unpublished fiction or non-fiction stories, written in English, for the 2017 SA Writers College Short Story Competition. SA Writers College accepts submission from South African writers over the age of 16 who have been published 0-4 times. However, it makes an exception for unpaid articles or works published in newsletters/blogs that have fewer than 1,000 circulations. The winners will receive via electronic transfer R10,000 [ … ]
Transnational Arts Production Science Fiction Short Story Competition
Deadline: Sept. 1, 2017. Enter your 3000-3500 words story to the Transnational Arts Production Science Fiction Short Story Competition. Transnational Arts Production (TRAP) seeks original unpublished science fiction submissions centered around the theme “All borders are temporary”. It especially welcomes work from authors from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central America, and South America. According to TRAP, Borders have always been a central [ … ]
FIYAH Sundown Towns Submissions
Deadline: April 30. Submit stories and poems by and about people of the African Diaspora to the FIYAH Sundown Towns edition. FIYAH pays $150 for short stories, $300 for novelettes, and $50 for poetry. According to Fiyah, “Sundown Towns exists as neighborhoods or communities that enforce segregation through the exclusion of other races via discriminatory laws, intimidation, and threats of violence.” [ … ]
Submit to WAW (Words Are Work)
Deadline: All year long, every month. WAW, Words Are Work, accepts submissions for online publication all year long, on a monthly basis. Submit your previously unpublished fiction, poetry, and non-fiction works. It generally publishes up to 1000 words flash fiction and up to 3000 words short stories. WAW also accepts all types of creative nonfiction such as reviews, personal essays, memoir, and opinion [ … ]
Appel à candidature pour AWRA résidence d’artistes
Date limite: Vendredi, 30 Juin 2017 à 18h00 (Heure d’Europe Centrale). Le Goethe-Institut et la Sylt Foundation invitent tous toi à postuler pour AWRA, la bourse littéraire d’une durée de deux mois dénommée, de résidence de la Sylt Foundation. L’appel à candidature est ouvert à tous les auteurs africains de tout genre littéraire. Il puet inclure poésie, prose, pièces de théâtre, [ … ]
Afridiaspora Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Afridiaspora is opened for submission year round. An African webzine fetching African stories from every part of the world, Afridiaspora seeks eager African writers willing to tell their own stories as it should be told, in new voices, old voices, uncategorised voices, voices yearning to be heard, voices so subtle, the world could feel it in their bones. There is no [ … ]
The Republic opens Magazine Submissions
Deadline: Rolling basis, see editorial calendar The Republic reflects on what it means to be Nigerian. It seeks to discover the answer to the question whether Nigerians are any closer to understanding Nigerian life. The magazine, established this year, currently seeks personal and non-personal essays on Nigeria and issues relevant to Nigeria and African. It also seeks criticism submission on art, culture, politics and the economy, and fiction submissions. [ … ]
Asymptote’s Literature from Countries Banned by Trump
Deadline: March 15. Asymptote plans to publish literature from countries banned by Trump. So, submit your unpublished fiction, nonfiction, and poetry pieces if you’re a Somalian and Sudanese writer. It will pay you at least US $200 for each published piece. Asymptote also will run the selected works either in or both The Guardian’s Translation Tuesday or its Spring quarterly edition. You can submit both works written [ … ]
2017 ICAPA and Writivism Scriptwriting Residency
Deadline: March 31, 12 midnight (Harare time). ICAPA and Writivism seek applications for its bilingual scriptwriting residency. The residency will occur in Senegal. Applicants will spend four weeks in Dakar in May 2017. Also, residents will have the opportunity to take French or English lessons during the residency. To apply, submit a 250-words maximum CV and a 200-words maximum motivational letter. [ … ]
District Lit. Disability, Medicine, and Illness Submissions
Deadline: March 15. District Lit. seeks poetry, nonfiction, and art submission. Currently, it reads submission for its Disability, Medicine, and Illness themed issue. The upcoming issue will highlight what it means to live with a disability, illness, or undergo medical treatments. According to District Lit., We want writing and art about chronic illness, disability, medical histories and procedures, recovery, and the [ … ]
Bhashabandhan Literary Review Submission
Deadline: no deadline. Submit to Bhashabandhan Literary Review (BLR), acclaimed Bangla literary magazine. It accepts previously unpublished poetry, short stories, flash fiction, memoir, essay, and artwork. So, send in your interesting and well-written works. Submit up to 4,000 words single-spaced fiction or nonfiction writing, 3-5 poems in a single attachment, or four to 10 high res images. Save your written submissions as a Word or [ … ]
Closed: 2017 Writivism Short Story Prize
Deadline: March 31, GMT. The Writivism Short Story Prize is an annual award for emerging African writers. The Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) administers the award. To qualify, you must be an unpublished writer, resident in an African country. You can only submit one entry for the Writivism Short Story Prize. Submit an original, previously unpublished story. The only exception is [ … ]
Jiwar Residency in Barcelona
Deadline: Feb. 15. You stand a chance to be part of the Jiwar Residency in Barcelona. Jiwar Creation and Society hosts and supports writers whose work is based on or inspired by urban space. Jiwar will host four writers and develop a special program around writing and literature. It will grant the emergent country writer a full stipend residency. However, the writer will cover the [ … ]
Submit to Nyanza Literary Festival: Freedom
Deadline: April 30. You can now submit to the 2nd annual Nyanza Literary Festival’s (NALIF) writing competition. You must be a current or former resident of the Western Kenya/ formerly Nyanza region. Or, you should live in the East African regions surrounding Lake Victoria (Entebbe, Kampala, Jinja, Bukoba, Mwanza, Musoma). Submit previously unpublished fiction, screenplay/play, and poetry work written in English and centered [ … ]
Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize
Deadline: Sunday, April 2. Note: you can only submit entries to the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize if you live in the UK or Ireland, and are 18 and above. The winner receives £1,000 and a one day publishing workshop at 4th Estate. Also, the Guardian will publish the winning story on its website. To enter, fill in the [ … ]
Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize
Deadline: March 15. An annual award, the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize awards best-published adventure novel and best-unpublished adventure manuscript. The winner of the published novel prize receives £10,000. While the winner of the unpublished novel prize receives £5,000. In addition, the winner also receives guidance from Wilbur’s literary agents at Tibor Jones & Associates. The Wilbur and Niso Smith Foundation allows you to submit multiple works. And include [ … ]
Poetry Potion’s Love and Compassion Edition
Deadline: Feb. 12 (11:59 p.m.). Poetry Potion encourages poets to submit to its “Love and Compassion” print edition. You can submit up to three previously unpublished poems, centered around human rights, humanity. It prefers poems that play with forms such as stanza, rhyme, syntax, etc., and languages. The best poems will challenge, dazzle, move, inspire the reader. When submitting, include your real name, [ … ]
Submit to EXPOUND Magazine’s Issue 9 Edition
Deadline: Feb. 28. Submit to EXPOUND Magazine‘s Issue 9 edition, which the magazine currently reads for. It accepts submissions from around the world. EXPOUND publishes original, quality poetry, fiction, photography, artworks, videos, and non-fiction. Non-fiction accepted include interviews, reviews, memoir pieces, and essays. The magazine seeks written works and art that “provoke, investigate, surprise, entertain and startle any reader.” It particularly clamours [ … ]
Submit to the Third Edition of Type Cast Journal
Deadline: Feb. 17. Submit to the third edition of Type Cast, Cape Town’s literary journal. Send your best noir, speculative fiction, and sci-fi, realist fiction to Type/Cast. You can also send in remixes of tales of magic and myth. Email your previously unpublished submission, written in English, to submissions@typecast.org.za. It accepts prose, poetry and short nonfiction. It also publishes art and photography essays. Your fiction [ … ]