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, [ … ]
Category: short stories
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 So, submit your unpublished fiction, nonfiction, and poetry pieces if you’re a Somalian and Sudanese writer.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 [ … ]
Closed: 2017 Writivism Short Story Prize
Deadline: March 31, GMT. The Writivism Short Story Prize is an annual award for emerging African writers. The Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) administers the award. To qualify, you must be an unpublished writer, resident in an African country. You can only submit one entry for the Writivism Short Story Prize. Submit an original, previously unpublished story. The only exception is [ … ]
Submit to Nyanza Literary Festival: Freedom
Deadline: April 30. You can now submit to the 2nd annual Nyanza Literary Festival’s (NALIF) writing competition. You must be a current or former resident of the Western Kenya/ formerly Nyanza region. Or, you should live in the East African regions surrounding Lake Victoria (Entebbe, Kampala, Jinja, Bukoba, Mwanza, Musoma). Submit previously unpublished fiction, screenplay/play, and poetry work written in English and centered [ … ]
Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize
Deadline: Sunday, April 2. Note: you can only submit entries to the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize if you live in the UK or Ireland, and are 18 and above. The winner receives £1,000 and a one day publishing workshop at 4th Estate. Also, the Guardian will publish the winning story on its website. To enter, fill in the [ … ]
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 your Short Story to amaBooks
Deadline: Feb. 14. amaBooks seeks short stories submissions from Zimbabwean writers for its new collection. Because it has no length restrictions or any particular theme, amaBooks can’t wait to read your work. So, just submit your best work. amaBooks is a small independent publishing house based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. So, it mainly publishes novels, short stories, and poetry, with a few local history [ … ]
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: African Pen Short Story Competition
Deadline: 30 September 2016. Submit your short stories to the African Pen Short Story Competition. African Pen provides an online platform to publish, support and celebrate the creative writing of all those with a deep connection to Africa. To be eligible for the competition, you must be born, living and working in an African country, or of African descent but living [ … ]
Closed: 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2016. Commonwealth Writers calls for submission to its 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. It awards the prize to the writer of the best unpublished short fiction written in English by a Commonwealth country citizen. The panel of judges places entries into five regions: Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Regional winners receive £2,500 and the [ … ]
€2,000 Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition
Deadline: July 31, 2016 The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition is an annual short story competition open to writers from around the world, submissions accepted from May to July annually. The competition is open to every writer, ages 16+, of any nationality. Furthermore, submitted stories can be on any subject, in any style. The prize for winning the competition is €2,000 (approx [ … ]
Bakwa Magazine Short Story Competition
Deadline: July 31, 2016. Cameroonians, submit to the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Competition. Founded in 2011, Bakwa is an online magazine that fills the lacuna created by the absence of high standard cultural and literary magazines in Cameroon. So, it focuses on cultural and literary criticism about Cameroon and Africa. It provides a space where African writers can be published, with the intention of [ … ]
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, [ … ]
Ehanom Review
An arts, literature and politics journal based in Kumasi, Ghana, Ehanom Review publishes the finest of works it receives. We seek poetry, fiction, non-fiction, book reviews, essays and any other writings with literary interest. We are a monthly journal starting from July, 2014. We accept only electronic submissions (via email). One submission at a time, no multiple submissions. Accepts simultaneous submissions. Publishes previously unpublished works for [ … ]
Transition Magazine
Born in Africa and bred in the diaspora, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling, most curious ideas about race. It bills itself as “an anchor of deep reflection on black life and a map charting new routes through the globalized world.” Transition is published three times annually by Indiana University Press. Transition does accept simultaneous submissions. Please notify to [ … ]
New Contrast
Established in 1960, New Contrast is devoted mainly to publishing original work by South African writers, and other activities incidental to that. Submissions need to be made through Submittable. Prefers not to receive material via email as there are too many occasions for material to be lost. Contributions must be unpublished. Preferred file types are .doc or .docx. Also acceptable are .odt, .rtf, or .txt files. [ … ]
The South African Literary Journal
The South African Literary Journal is the oldest surviving literary magazine in South Africa. It is the journal to find new writing and be read if you are a writer. Submit: poetry, short stories, flash fiction, essays and reviews
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 [ … ]
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 [ … ]