Deadline: Dec. 1, 2018. Awarded annually to an African poet who has not yet published a collection of poetry, The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry gifts USD $1000 and book publication through the University of Nebraska Press to the winner of the prize. The Sillerman First Book Prize considers electronic submissions only. Hard copy submissions will be recycled unread. Submit your [ … ]
Category: Poetry
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 The team prefers unpublished original work but is open to work that has been published [ … ]
Barren Magazine seeks submissions for its third issue
Deadline: September 30, 2018 (11:59 EST). Barren Magazine accepts flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, photography, and essays about the complexities of the human condition. Limit writing submissions to six (6) pieces at a time. There is no word count limit, but pieces with more than 5,000 words (or 2+ pages for poetry) require a longer response time and are less likely [ … ]
Tin House is Accepting Unsolicited Submissions
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2018. Based in Portland, Oregon, Tin House publishes fiction, essays, and poetry. Tin House contributors have won major American literary awards, such as the O. Henry Prize. The magazine currently accepts submissions for its first three issues of 2019: Summer 2019 and Winter 2019: No theme, just quality fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to cool off with, in [ … ]
Submit to Type/Cast Journal
Deadline: Oct. 8, 2018. The Type/Cast editorial collective announces a new call for submissions. It seeks fiction, poetry, and short nonfiction works. Xabiso Vili will guest edit this issue. Your work can touch on literally having to deal with physical spaces that are contested. Or, you can write about emotional or intellectual spaces, or any other space you may conceive. Email your previously [ … ]
Submit to The Arkansas International
Deadline: rolling basis until April 1. The Arkansas International promotes established and emerging voices. It welcomes previously unpublished, unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and translated works. And it only accepts electronic submissions, via Submittable. Note: the team does not accept submission fee until the cap is reached, excluding translations. But after they hit their cap, each submission after carries [ … ]
The impepho press submissions call
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2018. The impepho press has opened the submission frame for collection of poetry and short stories to be published in 2019. The press is a Pan Africanist publishing house committed to the sincere telling of African and international stories. It accepts book-length manuscripts and collections, whether poetry or short stories. It wants submissions from people born on the African continent [ … ]
Submit to the 2018 African Writers Award
Deadline: Oct. 13, 2018. Every year, the African Writers Development Trust (AWDT) hosts the African Writers Award as the highpoint of the African Writers Conference (AWC). The conference brings together writers of African descent to facilitate networking, provide opportunities and sustain a conversation on advancing the collective interests of African writers. The theme of the 2018 AWC is “Re-imagining African Literature: New Voices, [ … ]
Submit to Poetica: The African Girl Child
Deadline: Sept. 10, 2018. Poetica, a new African poetry magazine published by the African Writers Development Trust, is delighted to announce its maiden call for entries for its quarterly publication. Dedicated to discovering the finest poems by African writers, the magazine seeks exceptional poems on the theme: The African Girl Child. The theme for the debut is in conformity with the African [ … ]
The Emma Press launches call for poems about insects for children’s anthology
Deadline: October 5, 2018. The Emma Press has launched a call for poems about insects, for a children’s anthology to be edited by Fran Long and Dr. Isabel Galleymore. The anthology will be part of the publisher’s continuing series of themed anthologies of poetry for children. It accepts we welcome international submissions, as long as you have bought an Emma [ … ]
The Emma Press calls for submissions of poems on illness
Deadline: August 31, 2018. Send your poems on illness to The Emma Press for publication in its anthology launching in April 2019. You may submit up to three poems. Amy Mackelden and Dylan Jaggard will edit the anthology. Amy Mackelden is a poet and writer who co-founded the poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog and is the Weekend Editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. Dylan Jaggard has been published [ … ]
Submit to Big Pond Rumours
Summer Deadline: June 30 Winter Deadline: December 30. Big Pond Rumours is an international literary E-Zine that publishes poetry, story, literary essays and biographies. The publication supports emerging and established authors by exposing them to an international online audience. It releases two issues each year, Summer and Winter. It seeks quality poems and short stories. Poems could be up to 6 pages [ … ]
Stellenbosch University Museum Calls for Submission
Deadline: July 16, 2018. Stellenbosch University Museum encourages artists to submit proposals for artworks that engage with ideas around the future of higher education in the next 100 years. It will be exhibiting the artworks as part of the Stellenbosch University Centenary, open December 5, 2018. It wants compelling, innovative and thought-provoking works that will serve as catalysts for debate and engagement [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Call for Submission: Babishai 2018
Deadline: May 26, 2018. The Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation opens its 2018 Babishai Poetry Competition to all African poets who will not have published a full-length poetry collection by July 2018. Ugandan Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva founded The Babishai Poetry Prize in 2009 to shine a light on the Ugandan poetry scene. The 2018 Babishai Poetry Competition winner will receive $700USD and [ … ]
Saraba Magazine Calls for Submissions
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2017. Saraba Magazine calls for submissions for its 2018 Saraba issues. The themes are Open (#22), Fake Truths (#23), and Viral (#24). It will pay published writers ₦10,000 (approximately $30). It asks prospective contributors to interpret the themes in singular, yet compelling ways. Submit unpublished works that address any of the three themes. And, in your cover letter, [ … ]
Bellevue Literary Review Calls for Submissions
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2018. Bellevue Literary Review invites you to submit submissions centered around its Displacement theme. It accepts high-caliber poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. You can view displacement through the prism of “sense of un-belonging in the body, a yearning for relief from suffering, a pining for a return to the land of the healthy.” Or, you can write it from the literal sense of [ … ]
Submit to the Brunel University International African Poetry Prize
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2017. Brunel University and Commonwealth Writers are sponsoring the £3,000 Brunel University International African Poetry Prize. The annual poetry prize aims to develop, celebrate and promote African poetry. The prize started four years ago in 2013 with Warsan Shire emerging as the first winner. And Romeo Oriogun won last year’s award. To be eligible, you must be a poet who [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]