Deadline: Oct. 15, 2020. Gemini Spice Magazine plans to release its first issue, “We Will Survive COVID,” in October. It seeks essays, poems, commentaries, think pieces, personal stories, features, rants, art pieces, etc. from writers, poets, activists, artists from all over the world, regardless of age, gender, race religion, and other barriers. Gemini Spice Magazine is the first-ever Kenyan [ … ]
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Submit opinion pieces, stories, poetry, and more to Afritondo
Afritondo is a new online magazine for African stories and content. The team publishes opinion pieces, stories, poems, and pictures that address African issues, or tell stories about Africa and its people. It aims to offer a platform for African writers, including young writers who may not have access to platform with a wider international audience. To be published, you [ … ]
Gerald Kraak Award
Deadline: Now kept open all year round The Jacana Literary Foundation and the Other Foundation seek submissions to their fourth annual Gerald Kraak Award. The award focuses on stories and photographies on gender, human rights and sexuality. To be eligible, you should be an African who lives and works in the continent. The first place prize winner receives R25,000. Submit the following: fiction, [ … ]
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: Submit to Ake Review
Ake Review Deadline: August 31, 2017. Ake Review welcomes entries in fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, reviews, photography, film, music, sound art, performance art, and visual art. It is an annual multi-lingual literary journal that serves as a vehicle for the promotion and celebration of African culture. You can submit entries in written form, as podcasts, or as videos. It encourages submission of pieces [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Submit to The Jeli
The Jeli, a literary publisher for black millennials, loves accepting previously unpublished submissions from new writers. It publishes fiction (short stories, poetry and novels) as well as narrative non-fiction (travel memoirs, biographies and essays). It accepts both early drafts or finished works, but expect an editorial process at acceptance. The Jeli is a community of readers and writers who are passionate about reading and writing. [ … ]
Closed: SUNU Journal Submissions
A Wolof word meaning our, SUNU Journal engages critically African issues and topics at continental, regional, national and international levels through literary work, research papers and compelling visuals. SUNU’s mission is to amplify the youth voice and contribute to strengthening their collective consciousness in critical engagement with African affairs, and aesthetics. Accepted on a rolling basis, Submissions should critically and creatively explore topics [ … ]
The Wide Margin
The Wide Margin is a new digital collection of essays, articles and illustrations which focus on discussion and critical thought about social, economic, political and cultural issues through a feminist lens. The Wide Margin intends to advance contemporary critical thought in Kenya, East Africa and Africa in an accessible way that is open, inclusive, imaginative and daring. The Wide Margin accepts pitches for [ … ]
African Hadithi
African Hadithi is passionate and committed to providing a platform for Africans to tell their stories and share their lived experiences with a global audience.
Wasafiri
A Britain’s premier magazine for international contemporary writing. Published quarterly, Wasafiri provides serious literary and critical coverage of writers who often struggled, because of their cultural or ethnic backgrounds, to get adequate notice in the mainstream press. Fiction: submissions should be no longer than 6000 words in length and previously unpublished. Work should be submitted as a Word document or equivalent (no [ … ]
Q-zine
A pan-African, bilingual (English/French), quarterly electronic magazine by, for and about sexual minority groups in Africa. Q-zine aims to provide a legitimate outlet for queer Africans to celebrate the creativity and cultural richness of queer life in Africa. Q-zine’s main goal is to encourage sexual minority groups to decide how they should be represented in popular culture. Email: contact@qayn.org | Telephone: [ … ]
PalaPala
A Pan-African journal of culture, the politics of art and the media.