Deadline: July 16, 2017 (5 pm). Jacana Literary Foundation currently accepts submission for its Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award and Anthology. Writers should submit previously unpublished poems in any of the 11 South African languages. It encourages entrants to submit poems written in their mother tongue. Providing no set theme, the Foundation hopes the Award “reflects the complex, nuanced and uncomfortable [ … ]
Category: Poetry
Gnarled Oak Call for Submissions
Deadline: July 7, 2017. Gnarled Oak will be reading submissions for Issue 13 from June 24 to July 7. Gnarled Oak accepts poetry, prose, videos, and artwork. James Brush, its editor, favors shorter works. He prefers poems of less than 20 lines, prose works less than 1,000 words, and videos less than 7 minutes long. Send in 1-5 poems pasted in the body of an email, 1-2 prose pieces, 1-4 [ … ]
Submission Call: 2017 RL Poetry Award
Deadline: Aug. 5, 2017. The Poetry Mail invites you to submit to its 4th RL Poetry Award. Submit eight to 10 poems from manuscripts you currently work on or have completed. You can submit a mix of published and unpublished poems. Or, your manuscript can consist of only unpublished poems. Save all your poems as one single Word document. Indicate on [ … ]
Submissions Call: PRAXIS Response Chapbook
Deadline: July 21, 2017. Send in response poems for the next PRAXIS response chapbook, Around This Fire 5. PRAXIS recently published Iskandar Haggarty’s digital chapbook, There Are No Women in Our House. And, it currently seeks response poems to Haggarty’s chapbook. Email your response poems in the body of your email to halima@praxismagonline.com. Also, include “ATF5 Submission” as the subject line of the email. Same, include your [ … ]
The Machinery Submission
Deadline: June 30. After its last two themed issues, The Machinery has kept the theme open this time. You’re free to submit work in any genre, with any theme. You can submit up to 300-1000 words of flash fiction, up to 3 poems, and any artwork you may have. You can submit flash fiction of any genre, from high school drama to [ … ]
Submission Call: Mabati Cornell Kiswahili
Deadline: May 31, 2017. Cornell University awards $15,000 for its Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize yearly. The prize honors writers with unpublished manuscripts, or recently published books (within two years) written in Kiswahili. So, you can submit your manuscript or books in any of the fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and graphic novels categories. The $15,000 is divided into $5,000 for 1st place fiction, $5,000 for 1st place poetry, $3,000 for [ … ]
Commonwealth Youth Council: Unseen & Unspoken
Deadline: May 31, 2017 (1700 GMT). Commonwealth Youth Council launches Unseen & Unspoken to commemorate World Braille Day. It seeks to raise awareness about the experience and lives of young people with disabilities who the spotlight does not really shine on. Therefore, submit poetry around the theme: My disability does not define me. The disability can be visible or invisible disabilities such as [ … ]
Appel à contributions poétiques: A Song for Burundi
Limite pour la soumission: Avril 15. Huza Press en collaboration avec Africa Writes et Jalada Africa présent A Song for Burundi. Huza Press appel à contribution pour un recueil de poésis de Burundais vivant exile. Qui s’intitule A Song for Burundi, vise à rassembler des poèmes de defférentes formes, defférentes communautés et traditions qui explorent les expériences de migration et de chez-soi, de perte [ … ]
Huza Press: A Song for Burundi
Deadline: April 15. Huza Press announces A Song for Burundi, a poetry anthology collaboration with Africa Writes and Jalada Africa. A Song for Burundi will publish poems from Burundians living in exile. Huza Press seeks to explore the experience of migration, loss, belonging and hope. It will launch the anthology in London at the 2017 Africa Writes Festival. To apply, you must be a Burundian living outside Burundi. [ … ]
2017 Wasafiri New Writing Prize now open
Deadline: July 14 (5 p.m. GMT). For the 2017 Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Wasafiri welcomes poetry, fiction, and life writing (nonfiction) submissions from writers who haven’t published a complete book. It launched the Wasafiri New Writing Prize in 2009 to support new writers of all ages, genders, nationalities and background. To enter, you have to pay an entry fee to apply for this [ … ]
Submit to the Anansesem Love Theme Issue
Deadline: not dated. Anansesem publishes children’s and young adult fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and illustration. It currently accepts submissions for its September 2017 issue, with a “Love” theme. Interpret personally or broadly what love means to you, the community, and the world in general. Send in up-to-five poems, one 2,000-word max short story, one 2,000-word max nonfiction, and a collection of up-to-five images. Type [ … ]
Submit to WAW (Words Are Work)
Deadline: All year long, every month. WAW, Words Are Work, accepts submissions for online publication all year long, on a monthly basis. Submit your previously unpublished fiction, poetry, and non-fiction works. It generally publishes up to 1000 words flash fiction and up to 3000 words short stories. WAW also accepts all types of creative nonfiction such as reviews, personal essays, memoir, and opinion [ … ]
Appel à candidature pour AWRA résidence d’artistes
Date limite: Vendredi, 30 Juin 2017 à 18h00 (Heure d’Europe Centrale). Le Goethe-Institut et la Sylt Foundation invitent tous toi à postuler pour AWRA, la bourse littéraire d’une durée de deux mois dénommée, de résidence de la Sylt Foundation. L’appel à candidature est ouvert à tous les auteurs africains de tout genre littéraire. Il puet inclure poésie, prose, pièces de théâtre, [ … ]
Afridiaspora Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Afridiaspora is opened for submission year round. An African webzine fetching African stories from every part of the world, Afridiaspora seeks eager African writers willing to tell their own stories as it should be told, in new voices, old voices, uncategorised voices, voices yearning to be heard, voices so subtle, the world could feel it in their bones. There is no [ … ]
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 [ … ]
District Lit. Disability, Medicine, and Illness Submissions
Deadline: March 15. District Lit. seeks poetry, nonfiction, and art submission. Currently, it reads submission for its Disability, Medicine, and Illness themed issue. The upcoming issue will highlight what it means to live with a disability, illness, or undergo medical treatments. According to District Lit., We want writing and art about chronic illness, disability, medical histories and procedures, recovery, and the [ … ]
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 Nyanza Literary Festival: Freedom
Deadline: April 30. You can now submit to the 2nd annual Nyanza Literary Festival’s (NALIF) writing competition. You must be a current or former resident of the Western Kenya/ formerly Nyanza region. Or, you should live in the East African regions surrounding Lake Victoria (Entebbe, Kampala, Jinja, Bukoba, Mwanza, Musoma). Submit previously unpublished fiction, screenplay/play, and poetry work written in English and centered [ … ]
Poetry Potion’s Love and Compassion Edition
Deadline: Feb. 12 (11:59 p.m.). Poetry Potion encourages poets to submit to its “Love and Compassion” print edition. You can submit up to three previously unpublished poems, centered around human rights, humanity. It prefers poems that play with forms such as stanza, rhyme, syntax, etc., and languages. The best poems will challenge, dazzle, move, inspire the reader. When submitting, include your real name, [ … ]
Submit to EXPOUND Magazine’s Issue 9 Edition
Deadline: Feb. 28. Submit to EXPOUND Magazine‘s Issue 9 edition, which the magazine currently reads for. It accepts submissions from around the world. EXPOUND publishes original, quality poetry, fiction, photography, artworks, videos, and non-fiction. Non-fiction accepted include interviews, reviews, memoir pieces, and essays. The magazine seeks written works and art that “provoke, investigate, surprise, entertain and startle any reader.” It particularly clamours [ … ]