Deadline: Feb. 17. Submit to the third edition of Type Cast, Cape Town’s literary journal. Send your best noir, speculative fiction, and sci-fi, realist fiction to Type/Cast. You can also send in remixes of tales of magic and myth. Email your previously unpublished submission, written in English, to submissions@typecast.org.za. It accepts prose, poetry and short nonfiction. It also publishes art and photography essays. Your fiction [ … ]
Category: Poetry
Closed: uHlanga Manuscript Call (Poetry)
Deadline: Feb 28, 2017. uHlanga, a small poetry press based in Cape Town, South Africa, today opened its manuscript reading period call. It seeks chapbooks and collections of poetry from South African poets or poets living in South Africa. Authors should submit manuscripts written in English, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, or a combination. Authors should submit manuscripts written in English, Zulu, [ … ]
Submit to Ninth Letter’s Print Edition
Deadline: Feb. 28. Ninth Letter will accept fiction, essays and poetry submissions for its print edition. It seeks works that “experiment with form, narrative, and nontraditional subject matter, as well as more traditional literary work.” So, submit 3-6 poems, with a maximum of 10 pages. You can also submit up to 8,000 words fiction or non-fiction piece. Hence, you can only send two [ … ]
Submit to Margins by Ninth Letter
Deadline: April 1. Submit to Margins by Ninth Letter, which was opened its submission on Jan. 20. It currently accepts fiction, non-fiction, and poetry entries for the special online edition. According to Ninth Letter: Physical spaces have margins, as does the social world. In fact, anything that can be contained or has limits might have margins of some kind. This issue will feature [ … ]
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 Email previously unpublished works to dwartsonline@gmail.com.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 [ … ]
Asymptote’s Close Approximations Contest
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2017. Asymptote’s Close Approximations is an international translation contest in its third year. Emerging translators can submit fiction and poetry entries. The winner wins $1,000. While two runners-up will walk away with 250 USD each. Asymptote will publish the winning entries in its April issue, as well as in The Guardian’s Translation Tuesday. Submit 5 to 10 pages of translated [ … ]
Closed: The 2017 SLS fiction and poetry contest
Deadline: Feb. 28. Submit to the 2017 SLS fiction and poetry contest. The Summer Literary Seminars (SLS) in collaboration with Fence Magazine host the literary contest. To enter, submit up to three unpublished poems (10 pages), or a 25-page, double-spaced short story or novel excerpt. You can submit multiple entries. However, you have to accompany each entry with a separate reading fee. Each [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Transition Religion Call
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2017 For the Transition Religion Call, submit your essays, interviews, poetry, fiction, and visual art that reflect on the role of religion in Africa and diaspora. Transition seeks fresh perspectives about the role and meaning of religion in the African Diaspora. Also, it seeks perspectives about conflict, and resettlement triggered by inter/intra-religious confrontation. Transition accepts simultaneous submissions but does [ … ]
Jalada-Transition Fear Anthology Submission
Deadline: Jan 9, 2017. Extending its fear anthology, Jalada has partnered with Transition on the project. Jalada-Transition will publish a collaborative issue, available in print and digital editions from June 2017. There’s a lot of materials to cover on fear. Same, you can talk about fear through the lens of weaponized terror, general fear, or fear other others — touching on [ … ]
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: Praxis Magazine Online Poetry Contest
Deadline: Oct. 31. Praxis Magazine Online on Sept. 7 announced its first Praxis Magazine Online Poetry Contest anthology. It will begin to accept entries for the contest from Oct. 1. So, you’ve got about a month to prepare for the submission. Praxis Magazine Online will hold its poetry contest annually. It will select the best poems, chosen by a judge, for publications [ … ]
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: Words And Wine Haiku Competition
Deadline: July 31, 2016 The Leopard’s Leap Family Vineyards opens its call for submission for its Words And Wine Haiku Competition. To enter, all you need do is write a haiku written in English inspired by the ‘Words And Wine’ theme. First of all, the winner will get a cash prize of R 5,000. Also, the vineyard will offer you 12 cases of [ … ]
Closed: Voices on Fire Poetry Competition
Deadline: July 22, 2016 (4 p.m.) McGregor Poetry Festival opened its Voices on Fire Poetry Competition to unpublished poets ages 19+ and ages 13 to 18. Those ages 19+ should apply for the Open Category to win R 7,500 and a trophy. While poets ages 13 to 18 should apply for the High School Category to win a R2,500 book voucher and a trophy. The finalists could see their poetry [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Modern Poetry in Translation Calls for African Poetry
Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) Opens Call for African Poetry. Its focus for this summer is on translations of poems originally written in African languages. As its name suggests, MPT publishes only unpublished translations of poems not originally written in English. While it has a preference for contemporary work, MPT is happy to receive work from any era. Modern Poetry in Translation Submission Guideline: You can submit up [ … ]
Submit to Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation
The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation, a one-off award for emerging African poets administered by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE), aims to award poets who write in African indigenous languages and translate their works. CACE seeks to celebrate bi-linguality and self-translation by African poets. To apply for the award, you must be a resident African emerging poet who is [ … ]
Apply to the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop
You get a chance to study with Chimamanda Adichie at the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop! Chimamanda Adichie, Farafina Trust’s creative director, will host the creative writing workshop in Lagos, from June 21 to July 1, 2016. Binyavanga Wainaina, Aslak Sira Myhre and others will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie. At the workshop, accepted participants will be assigned a wide range of reading exercises, [ … ]
Submit to the New Orleans Review
Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy will be guest editing The African Literary Hustle, a New Orleans Review special print issue. You can submit to The African Literary Hustle your romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, and experimental fiction pieces, your satire, political allegory, and critical non-fiction, translations, or revised narratives, and your poetry. The African Literary Hustle specifications Prose submissions should be 7,500 words or fewer. Poetry [ … ]