Deadline: Now kept open all year round The Jacana Literary Foundation and the Other Foundation seek submissions to their fourth annual Gerald Kraak Award. The award focuses on stories and photographies on gender, human rights and sexuality. To be eligible, you should be an African who lives and works in the continent. The first place prize winner receives R25,000. Submit the following: fiction, [ … ]
Category: scholarly articles
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 [ … ]
FEMRITE Calls for Abstracts on Rethinking African Literature
FEMRITE, the Uganda Women Writer Association, invites scholars to submit 15–20 minute presentations abstracts to its international conference. The conference will be held at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda from July 28-30, 2016. The conference will be a platform for writers, scholars, literary critics and other interested parties to engage, rethink and propose possible new [ … ]
Safundi
Safundi, The Journal of South African and American Studies, is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal that analyses the United States and South Africa from an international, transnational, and/or comparative perspective and seeks to understand each country in relation to the other. Although new comparative and transnational research forms the core of the journal, Safundi also publishes articles specifically addressing one [ … ]
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 [ … ]