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. [ … ]
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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 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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Contest: the Emerging Writer’s Prize in Fiction
Deadline: Oct. 20, 2018. Submit to the Emerging Writer’s Prize in Fiction, a prize run by The Arkansas International. Send in your single prose work, not exceeding 7,500 words. The contest is open to writers who haven’t yet published a full-length book. However, it will accept writers with a book forthcoming before May 1, 2019 and those with chapbooks. The [ … ]
Submission Calls: MoonPark Review
Deadline: not available. MoonPark Review currently reads for Issue Six. MoonPark Review is an online literary journal devoted to publishing compelling, imaginative short prose. It publishes flash fiction, prose poems, and hybrid forms. Mary Lynn Reed & Lesley C. Weston edit the journal. They love cerebral and speculative works. They also love poetic micros, dark and twisty tales, and queer themes. [ … ]
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 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 [ … ]
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, [ … ]
The Republic opens Magazine Submissions
Deadline: Rolling basis, see editorial calendar The Republic reflects on what it means to be Nigerian. It seeks to discover the answer to the question whether Nigerians are any closer to understanding Nigerian life. The magazine, established this year, currently seeks personal and non-personal essays on Nigeria and issues relevant to Nigeria and African. It also seeks criticism submission on art, culture, politics and the economy, and fiction submissions. [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Submit to the Third Edition of Type Cast Journal
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Klorofyl
Online literary and graphic lifestyle magazine with urban and African roots, Klorofyl was founded in 2009 to create a magazine about the search for truth and a better life, and our devotion to REPLANTing with wholesome values. Klorofyl Magazine has had four issues since then, is distributed free as a pdf ebook, in an online graphic slider, and on the blog. Contact info@klorofyl.com [ … ]