Launched in 2012, SierrArts explores and showcases the literary arts by Sierra Leonean writers and artists. SierrArts is currently the only online literary journal established by Sierra Leoneans. SierrArts is a nonprofit arts organization that supports the literary arts through education, creative thinking, and new media. Submit: interviews, book reviews, and arts and culture.
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Saraba
Saraba is a quarterly literary magazine that aims to create unending voices by publishing the finest emerging writers, with a bias for Nigeria, and Africa. Publishes wonderful poetry in the form of chapbooks. Magazine: send unpublished fiction, poetry and non-fiction work. Do not send in any material that has been published elsewhere in print or on the web. Send no more than one work at a [ … ]
SABLE
A black and white cultural publication for writers of color to showcase their work in any genre. It provides readers with an opportunity to read new work by internationally renowned and new writers within a format and design that is aesthetically as important as the written word. Accepts fiction, poetry, in translation, memoir (history/herstory), travel narratives (backpackers), essays, classic review, [ … ]
Medunsa Poetry Club
The Medunsa Poetry Club was established February 2004 to encourage and promote the art of poetry in Medunsa. The organisation aims to establish a culture of free expression among the Medunsa students. This will be accomplished through a publication in the form of a student newsletter. Publications: so far, only one of the members of the Club has her work [ … ]
PalaPala
A Pan-African journal of culture, the politics of art and the media.
Munyori Literary Journal
Munyori Literary Journal is an online Zimbabwean-American literary platform that features works from global writers and artists. While the journal receives the bulk of its submissions from Zimbabwe and the United States, it also features works from Nigeria, India, China, the UK, Ireland, South Africa, Ghana, Canada, and more from all corners of the globe. Biographic Profiles: Know of a writer, author, [ … ]
Mosaic
Launched in 1998, Mosaic is a print tri-annual (February, June, & October) that explores the literary arts by writers of African descent, and features interviews, essays, and book reviews. It welcomes advance review copies and galleys for review. Mosaic accepts essays, interviews, and literary-focused articles. Before submitting the full work, send a brief summary to info@mosaicmagazine.org. If you are interested in reviewing [ … ]
Mirabilia Review
An online carnival of the world’s storytelling traditions, a bazaar of diverse and variegated narratives which celebrates the unities and divergences of experience in the contemporary global space. Submit: send short stories of between 4,000 and 12,000 words to mirabilia.review@gmail.com. Submissions should be sent as attachments in .doc or .rtf file types. A short biographical sketch is required. The subject line [ … ]
Meskot
An online Ethiopian literary journal, it is published in Amharic and English. Submissions should be in .doc, .jpg, or .pdf format, if in English. Submissions in the Ethiopic alphabet should preferably be in .gif, .jpg or .pdf format. Word documents are also acceptable if written in fonts supported by feedel, visual geez, visual geez unicode or any other unicode compatible software. Send [ … ]
Matatu
Matatu is a journal on African literatures and societies dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue between literary and cultural studies, historiography, the social sciences and cultural anthropology. It creates temporary communicative communities and provides a transient site for the exchange of news, storytelling, and political debate. Submit: Poetry, fiction, play scripts, reviews.
LitNet
Aims to provide a robust virtual home for culture lovers and to remain the leading South African multicultural online journal. It accommodates other languages such as Xhosa, English and Dutch. LitNet is a home for both the home-grown philosopher and the more highbrow intellectual. Submit: academic research
Kachifo
To have your work considered for publication by Kachifo Limited, please send an email to submissions@kachifo.com, including a strong excerpt of about three chapters or 10,000 words saved in Microsoft Word, a one-page synopsis of the work, and a short author bio. Your submission will be acknowledged and assessed by the editors. Kachifo Limited will respond within eight weeks if it is provisionally [ … ]
Kwani?
Kwani? is a journal founded by some of Kenya’s most exciting new writers and has 6 print editions to date. Receives significant funding from the Ford Foundation and has become a major platform for writing from across the African continent. Kwani?’s editorial panel usually has two reading periods each year. Submit works via email, attaching your work in a (*doc) or (*rtf) file. [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Jungle Jim
A bi-monthly African pulp fiction magazine which features genre-based writing from all over Africa, Jungle Jim constantly looks for writers and illustrators to join its galactic quest. Jungle Jim publishes work by African nationals either living abroad or in domestic countries and will consider stories by writers of African descent/parentage. Length Very Short Fiction: 800 – 2000 words Short Fiction: 2500 – 3500 [ … ]
joINT
joINT seeks to create a space in which to re-interpret what it means to be of African descent when one does not “fit” into the illusory monolith of Black political identity. joINT seeks work from writers and visual artists across the African diaspora, who exist within the margins of gender, sex, religious, cis, able-bodied, and class privilege, to name a [ … ]
EXPOUND Magazine
EXPOUND is an online magazine that aims to celebrate new literature. Accepts submissions from around the world. Publishes original, quality works in form of poetry, fiction, photography, artworks, videos, non-fiction: interviews, reviews, memoir pieces and essays. Want pieces that provoke, investigate, surprise, entertain and startle any reader. Looking for new styles and mind-bending pieces. Loves avant-garde and experimental pieces. EXPOUND accepts only electronic submissions [ … ]
Enskyment
A prizewinning anthology of print and online poetry. Enskyment now welcomes up to three poems by each invited poet, thanks to an increased archival capacity. Poems by invitation only.
Chimurenga Magazine
A pan African publication of culture, art and politics based in Cape Town. Founded by Editor Ntone Edjabe in 2002, Chimurenga provides an innovative platform for free ideas and political reflection by Africans about Africa. The journal is published irregularly in print, online and through themed performances called “Chimurenga Sessions.” Read a couple back issues to get a sense of [ … ]
Callaloo
Published five times a year (Winter, Spring, Summer, Art, and Fall), Callaloo accepts original submissions of scholarly articles, book reviews, interviews, nonfiction essays, short fiction, poetry, and visual art. All manuscripts must be double spaced and submitted only as a Word document (.doc or .docx). Identifying information, including names of authors, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, should not be included in [ … ]