Opinion and Editorial
Afritondo is an online magazine for African stories and content. It features opinion pieces, fiction, poems, and pictures, that address African issues or tell a story about the continent and the people living in it. The magazine’s aim is to offer a platform for Africans, including many young people who may not have such access, to share their stories and views on Africa with a wider international audience.
The magazine will also be launching a short story competition in the coming months. Winners of the competition will receive cash prizes and winning entries published in a forthcoming anthology. Please like our Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/afritondo/, to receive future updates and details of the competition.
Please visit our website http://afritondo.com for further detail and to get an idea of the sort of content and materials we publish. You may also email editor@afritondo.com if you have any enquiries
Kalahari Review is an African-eccentric magazine interested in material exploring Africa and Africans in unique and avant-garde ways. Telling new stories from everyday African life as told by the people that are living it. It seeks stories that have not often been told but should be – through voices that have not yet been heard – but should.
Kwani? is a journal founded by some of Kenya’s most exciting new writers and has 6 print editions to date. Receives significant funding from the Ford Foundation and has become a major platform for writing from across the African continent.
Established in 2003, Kwani Trust is a Kenyan based literary network dedicated to developing quality creative writing and committed to the growth of the creative industry through the publishing and distribution of contemporary African writing, offering training opportunities, producing literary events and establishing and maintaining global literary networks.
A black and white cultural publication for writers of color to showcase their work in any genre. It provides readers with an opportunity to read new work by internationally renowned and new writers within a format and design that is aesthetically as important as the written word.
SABLE LitMag also offers training and support through e-internships, professional development for writers through its courses and workshops, a manuscript reading service, residential courses and retreats and a writers coaching service.
SABLE LitMag created the Writer’s HotSpot in 1996 – the first international creative writing residencies for people of color, held in Cuba, The Gambia, New York and the UK
SABLE LitMag has a LitFest. The first one took place in Brixton, London in 2005. The second one took place in Bakau, The Gambia in 2007, where the third one will also take place in 2013.
Accepts fiction, poetry, in translation, memoir (history/herstory), travel narratives (backpackers), essays, classic review, expressions, in celebration.