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 [ … ]
Category: Photography
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, [ … ]
Sony’s $25,000 Alpha Female Program
Sony seeks five female creatives to kick off its Alpha Female program. The Fellows will receive the $25,000 grant, $5,000 in Sony gear, and mentorship.
PIAD OPENLab 2018
Deadline: May 4, 2018. The Programme for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD) presents OPENLab 2018, a national laboratory for early and mid-career artists and creative practitioners. Applicants must be South African citizens or have permanent resident status in South Africa. Proof of citizenship or residency may be required. It is an open and intensive residency platform aimed to generate new [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Enter the Sony World Photography Awards Competition
Open and Youth competition deadline: Jan 4, 2018 (13.00 GMT). Professional competition deadline: Jan 11, 2018 (13.00 GMT). Sony World Photography Awards invites you to enter its competitions: open competition, professional competition and its youth competition. You can only enter one competition. Winning and shortlisted photographers will have their works exhibited at Somerset House, London in Spring 2018. In addition, they will win prizes [ … ]
Submit to Prufrock
Deadline: none. A South African literary magazine, Prufrock accepts submission year round. Four University of Cape Town graduates founded the magazine in May 2013. The magazine features long-form non-fiction, fiction, poetry, photography, and illustration. It accepts unsolicited submissions and has no restrictions on content or style. While priority is given to African writers, it publishes writers from all over the world. It will read and publish [ … ]
Submit to Kabaka Magazine
Deadline: Dec.12. Kabaka Magazine is a quarterly queer literary magazine. It publishes original, unpublished poetry, fiction, visual arts, photography, videos, non-fiction: interviews, reviews, memoir pieces, and essays. It wants works that interrogate what it means to be queer and African. Kabaka Magazine believes that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex lives are part of the African experience and culture. As [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Submit to Dwart’s Issue #3: Uprooting
Deadline: March 2. Dwart seeks original, compelling pieces for its Uprooting issue that touch on this through such subthemes as death, spiritual disconnection, physical distancing, cultural alienation, memory loss. Dwart accepts fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, and arts & photography. Send pieces that break stereotypes, with extraordinary confidence. Email previously unpublished works to dwartsonline@gmail.com. Include your short bio in the document you send. Write [ … ]
Closed: IWPA Award Call for Entries
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2017. IWPA, the International Women Photographers Association, calls for entries to its 2017 IWPA Award. The Award creates a unique opportunity to increase women photographers’ visibility to a wide and diverse audience. So, IWPA seeks to raise awareness and help women photographers achieve their aspirations, promote their careers, and gain global recognition. The award is open to all female photographers, 18 [ … ]
Closed: TSSF Magazine Open Call
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2017. TSSF Magazine, on Nov 1, opened its call for submissions. Disclosure: TSSF Magazine is one of the projects of The Single Story Foundation, which runs this site. TSSF Magazine seeks well-crafted, realistic stories from writers of African descents or those associated with Africa. Send your poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and visual art to publication@singlestory[dot]org. Email title should be: TSSF Mag: [Work [ … ]
Closed: AFREADA Photo-Story Competition
Deadline: Sunday, Nov. 27 (Midnight GMT). AFREADA, in collaboration photographer UA present AFREADA Photo-Story Competition. They invite writers to write and submit a 500-word maximum flash fiction, using the picture below as a muse: The winning author gets £100. Shortlisted stories will be featured in AFREADA online publication in 2017. AFREADA will announce the winner on Tuesday, Dec. 6, which coincidentally marks its first anniversary. Entries should be sent to editor@afreada.com as [ … ]
Closed: EXPOUND Woman Issue Call
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2016. Going with its African focused Special Issue tradition, EXPOUND has opened calls for its special EXPOUND woman issue. This issue will exclusively explore and appreciate African female writers and artists. As an African woman, you should apply. This issue will be guest edited by Safia Elhillo and Unoma Azuah. Sudanese Safia Elhillo is a Canem fellow and poetry editor for Kinfolks Quarterly: a journal [ … ]
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 [ … ]
My Africa Photo Competition
As part of its 10th year anniversary, Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) invites Africans to submit to its My Africa Photo Competition. My Africa Photo Competition provides an opportunity for African photographers to capture their vision of Africa through their own lenses. MIF seeks images that capture Africa in its many diverse settings and communities, depicting what developments, challenges and opportunities could [ … ]
POPCAP Calls for Contemporary African Photography Entries
Piclet.org calls for submissions to POPCAP, a prize for contemporary African Photography. POPCAP is directed at photographers whose work engages with the African continent and/or its diaspora. The prize consists of global exposure at major international photography exhibitions. Submitted works will be judged according to exposure focus/sharpness, colour and/or tonal rendition and lighting. Visual and aesthetic criteria include framing and choice of viewpoint, design elements and [ … ]
Addis Foto Fest Open Call
The international Addis Foto Fest Fourth Edition will be taking place in December of 2016. It’s now receiving submissions. If you are a photographer, curator, or photography collective and would like to submit your work for consideration to be exhibited in the festival, please send images, 10 low resolution, in .jpg, a bio, and a 500 word maximum description of your work. Send your submission [ … ]
National Art Competition
The National Art Competition is an annual arts competition organised by African Artists’ Foundation, with each edition driven by pertinent themes in line with current social issues. Now in its seventh year, the National Art Competition has showcased emerging talent in such diverse mediums as painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, installation, and video art. With a focus on the processes [ … ]
Lunaris Review
Lunaris Review published literary fiction (flash fiction, short story and creative nonfiction). Lunaris Review accepts submission of flash fiction up to 1,000 words; short story, creative non-fiction up to 4,000 words and essay not longer than 7,500 words. Does not accept sci-fi and erotic compositions. Submission should be sent as attachment in .doc or .pdf format using double line spacing. [ … ]