Has a preference for new, unpublished work. Natural constituency of writers and material are African or Diasporan (please interpret boldly) but will publish any writer who writes into the African Condition (please interpret boldly). We are adventurous in our definition of Africana, but we will also publish good literature generally. Please read African Writing Online before submitting. If you are [ … ]
Category: Fiction
Call for Submission: U-Rights Magazine
Deadline: Nov. 25, 2020. U-Rights Magazine, an online magazine based in Cross River state, calls for submission of original poetry, fiction/non-fiction, and digital content for its first issue. The team publishes works from anywhere in the world three times a year, though it hopes to publish more of African Writings. It accepts submissions via email. All submissions should be sent [ … ]
Kalahari Review
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. The Kalahari [ … ]
Submit to the Akuko Magazine Inaugural Literary Contest
Deadline: Nov. 30, 2020. Akuko is a new online magazine that aims to champion writing by Black writers from the African continent and its vast diaspora. Akuko means story in Igbo and rooster in Yoruba. It defines Africa not by the physical continent but by its descendants spread all over the Diaspora. Akuko is currently open for submissions to our inaugural [ … ]
Submit to Gemini Spice Magazine
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 [ … ]
PRAXIS’ Call for Submission
Submissions are welcomed all year round. Praxis Magazine Online is currently inviting submissions in four genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and journal stories. Praxis Magazine Online is a platform for artists and writers to commune, debate, and progress their craft respectively. It covers literary events across Africa, gives voice to emerging writers and artists, and even promotes literature in indigenous languages. Specific [ … ]
Submit to the Afritondo $1,000 Short Story Prize
Deadline: Friday, Dec. 23, 2019. Afritondo is a media and publishing platform that aims to tell the stories of Africans and black minority populations across the globe. Our main aim is to improve diversity in publishing by offering aspiring African and black minority writers a viable platform for telling their stories. Afritondo is calling for submissions for its inaugural short [ … ]
Granta is now accepting Unsolicited Submissions
Deadline: Nov 13. Granta publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Currently, it is accepting fiction and nonfiction submissions until Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019. However, it accepts photography and art submissions all year-round. The publication imposes no strict word limits. Ideally, submit submissions that are between 3,000 and 6,000 words. Do note that the editors will not read any submission that is [ … ]
Submit to FIYAH
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2019. FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora. This definition is globally inclusive (Black anywhere in the world) and also applies to mixed/biracial and Afro-appended people regardless of gender identity or orientation. It is open to unthemed submissions from Oct 1. Send your prose and [ … ]
Submission Call: TSSF Journal
Deadline: December 31. You can now submit to the TSSF Journal. TSSF Journal seeks well-crafted stories about Africa, Africans, and African issues in all genres from writers of African descents or those associated with Africa. Send your poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction to journal@singlestory[dot]org. Email title should be: TSSF Journal: [Work Name], [category]. It accepts all kinds of stories, whether genre or literary. [ … ]
Submit to Jalada 08: Bodies
Deadline: Oct. 11, 2019. Jalada seeks short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry that play with the very concept of the body and bodies. The team wants creative submissions that (re)imagine and (re)define bodies; pieces that look at bodies beyond flesh and bone; pieces that look at bodies in and through flesh and bone; that challenge human’s preconceived notions of [ … ]
Submit: Journal of African Youth Literature (JAYL)
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2019. The Journal of African Youth Literature (JAYL) publishes literature written in English by, about, and/or for born-in-Africa youths. For the purposes of the Journal, the youth age category is defined as beginning in the mid-teenage years (from 15) up to 35 years. JAYL is interested in the types of literature listed below. Please note the lengths [ … ]
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, [ … ]
Agbowó Call for Submissions | Limits
Deadline: April 31, 2019. Agbowó lit and art magazine is now accepting submissions. The team calls for visual art pieces, photographs, short stories, essays and poetry that explore the theme “Limits”. It is after stories that dance gracefully on the limits between dream and reality. It wants poems that chant at the errant that without consent the body is off-limits [ … ]
Call of Submissions for Exhale by HOLA Africa and Blackbird Books
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2019. HOLA Africa in collaboration with Blackbird Books, an imprint of Jacana Media, announces its call of submissions for Exhale, an upcoming queer African erotic short fiction anthology. The theme of Exhale is wrapped in the idea of a release, letting go, breathing out. An orgasm. The team wants compelling, well-crafted and imaginative stories that speak to [ … ]
Submit: Big Pond Rumours Literary Contest
Deadline: December 15. Big Pond Rumours is currently running its Magazine Content. The team is looking for quality writing and accepts poetry and prose submissions. You can submit up to 80 lines of poetry or a short fiction piece between 2,000 and 3,500 words. The team accepts multiple submissions. Format your submission as follows: poetry should be single-spaced while fiction [ … ]
Submit: Through the Eyes of African Women
Deadline: no deadline. Through the Eyes of African Women supports young women writers between the ages of 13-35. Submit your poetry, prose or any other form of fiction writing. The team accepts one-off submissions as well as applications to become a continuous contributor to its Medium publication: Unbound. If selected for a contributor position, the team will work with you [ … ]
Submit to the Annual Kalanithi Award
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2018. Now in its third year, the Kalanithi Award is accepting submissions of unpublished short stories, essays, and poems that address patients and providers facing chronic or life limiting illness. The contest, hosted by Stanford’s Palliative Care Section, awards three writers an honorarium and, subject to editorial review, publication in Pegasus Review. Submit less than 4,000 words [ … ]
Submit: Cfwriterz Biannual Literary Award
Deadline: Nov. 20, 2018. Cfwriterz calls for fiction, poetry and nonfiction entries for its award, sponsored by SOBCA Academy. The theme for this edition is “Wings to fly” and the winner will receive ₦100,000. African writers of any background or residence are invited to send their work, written in English. The team prefers unpublished original work but is open to work that has been published [ … ]