Deadline: Feb. 28, 2021. The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is issuing a call for The Decade of Action Short Stories an initiative targeted at young African creatives in an effort to broaden the conversation, awareness and re-imagination of the Sustainable Development Goals through fiction. Young Africans born in Africa or with either of the two parents as African are [ … ]
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Submit to Gemini Spice Magazine
Deadline: Oct. 15, 2020. Gemini Spice Magazine plans to release its first issue, “We Will Survive COVID,” in October. It seeks essays, poems, commentaries, think pieces, personal stories, features, rants, art pieces, etc. from writers, poets, activists, artists from all over the world, regardless of age, gender, race religion, and other barriers. Gemini Spice Magazine is the first-ever Kenyan [ … ]
Submit: Toyin Falola Prize
Deadline: May 31, 2020 The Toyin Falola Prize team invites young African writers to reach to the core of Africa to make, re-make, affirm, and re-affirm the African (hi)story creatively, and into the Africanfutures. The Prize is created in honor of the Distinguished African scholar and foremost historian, Professor Toyin Falola. The Prize is meant to honour his endeavours and [ … ]
Submit to the Afritondo $1,000 Short Story Prize
Deadline: Friday, Dec. 23, 2019. Afritondo is a media and publishing platform that aims to tell the stories of Africans and black minority populations across the globe. Our main aim is to improve diversity in publishing by offering aspiring African and black minority writers a viable platform for telling their stories. Afritondo is calling for submissions for its inaugural short [ … ]
Submit: Journal of African Youth Literature (JAYL)
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2019. The Journal of African Youth Literature (JAYL) publishes literature written in English by, about, and/or for born-in-Africa youths. For the purposes of the Journal, the youth age category is defined as beginning in the mid-teenage years (from 15) up to 35 years. JAYL is interested in the types of literature listed below. Please note the lengths [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Call of Submissions for Exhale by HOLA Africa and Blackbird Books
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2019. HOLA Africa in collaboration with Blackbird Books, an imprint of Jacana Media, announces its call of submissions for Exhale, an upcoming queer African erotic short fiction anthology. The theme of Exhale is wrapped in the idea of a release, letting go, breathing out. An orgasm. The team wants compelling, well-crafted and imaginative stories that speak to [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Submit to the Annual Kalanithi Award
Deadline: Dec. 1, 2018. Now in its third year, the Kalanithi Award is accepting submissions of unpublished short stories, essays, and poems that address patients and providers facing chronic or life limiting illness. The contest, hosted by Stanford’s Palliative Care Section, awards three writers an honorarium and, subject to editorial review, publication in Pegasus Review. Submit less than 4,000 words [ … ]
Barren Magazine seeks submissions for its third issue
Deadline: September 30, 2018 (11:59 EST). Barren Magazine accepts flash fiction, short fiction, poetry, photography, and essays about the complexities of the human condition. Limit writing submissions to six (6) pieces at a time. There is no word count limit, but pieces with more than 5,000 words (or 2+ pages for poetry) require a longer response time and are less likely [ … ]
Call for Submission: Afroyoungadult
Deadline: Nov. 30. Afroyoungadult, published by the Goethe-Institut, will feature Young Adults (YA) stories. The Goethe-Institut invites aspiring African writers to submit short stories, 3,000 to 5,000 words in length, in Kiswahili, English or French. Selected authors will be published in an anthology and will participate in workshops in February 2019. The anthology that will be available in Kiswahili, English, and French, and [ … ]
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, [ … ]
2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize: Hotel Africa
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2018. Short Story Day Africa (SSDA) now accepts submissions for its 2018 Short Story Day Africa Prize. The winner will receive $800, the runner-up $200 and the second runner-up $100. So, submit one 3,000-5,000, previously unpublished piece of short fiction that explores identity, like themes of gender identity and sexuality. According to Short Story Day Africa, Check-in … To [ … ]
Submit to Afro Anthology x Enkare Review
Deadline: Sept. 10, 2018. Afro Anthology x Enkare Review call for short story submissions from writers of African citizenship or African descent. So, submit a fictional work that centers around a blind protagonist or has blindness as its core theme. There are over five million blind citizens in Africa and over 285 million suffer from visual impairment of some kind. Send [ … ]
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 [ … ]
AFREADA X Africa Writes Competition
Deadline: June 18 (23:59 BST). You could win $100 in the AFREADA X Africa Writes Competition. AFREADA and Africa Writes invite writers to send in a 500-word short story, loosely based on acclaimed Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou’s Tomorrow I’ll be Twenty. Written from 10-year-old Michel’s perspective, the story begins: In this country, a boss should always be bald and have a big belly. [ … ]
Black Letter Media Short Story Competition
Deadline: May 31, 2017 (11:59 p.m. South African Time). Black Letter Media seeks short stories from all over the world, written in English under the theme: The people shall. It wants stories that draw inspiration from this phrase, whether political or not. Stories submitted should take readers on a journey, capture the readers’ imagination and be unpredictable. The Annual Short Story competition celebrates the [ … ]
FIYAH Sundown Towns Submissions
Deadline: April 30. Submit stories and poems by and about people of the African Diaspora to the FIYAH Sundown Towns edition. FIYAH pays $150 for short stories, $300 for novelettes, and $50 for poetry. According to Fiyah, “Sundown Towns exists as neighborhoods or communities that enforce segregation through the exclusion of other races via discriminatory laws, intimidation, and threats of violence.” [ … ]