Deadline: May 25, 2024 (Africa Day) at 12pm Forced Migration and The Arts, in collaboration with CivicLeicester and Regularise, is inviting poems on the theme of African migration. They welcome submissions from writers of all ages and locations worldwide. The anthology aims to explore personal, familial, community, and national histories and experiences related to African migration. This includes the images, [ … ]
Category: Submission Calls
Submit to The New Voices Award
Deadlines: April 30th The New Voices Award supports unpublished, unrepresented writers looking to develop a new work in progress. It provides mentorship and editorial guidance, encouraging entries from all backgrounds with an original story. The prize is exclusively for unpublished writers. Writers must not be represented by a literary agent, or be under an existing or future contract to any [ … ]
ECA issues Call for Decade of Action
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 [ … ]
Submit to The South African Artist magazine
Deadline: rolling basis The SA Artist magazine is offering you the opportunity to get your art published. Simply complete the form and upload up to 10 (min 3) images (no larger than 2mb each). Submit your art through its submission form. The South African Artist magazine is the only practical visual arts magazine in South Africa. Content includes interviews and [ … ]
Submit to Botsotso Magazine
Deadline: rolling Send original, unpublished work in any South African language. All submissions are welcome. Be careful to keep a copy when submitting. Please remember to include your contact details: name, postal and email address, telephone number. Send submissions to . Does not accept simultaneous submission. However, should you wish to withdraw work from Botsotso, kindly inform the team. All [ … ]
Submit to African Writer Magazine
Deadline: rolling basis African Writer is open to all genres of literature from Africa and the African Diaspora. The team publishes prose fiction, creative non-fiction, folktales, poetry, dramatic pieces, essays/creative features, interviews/profiles, book excerpts/reviews, etc. Ensure all entries are single line spaced, and in standard Times New Roman 12pt. font. Also, ensure that the submission is properly edited for errors. [ … ]
Pitch to New African Woman Magazine
Email: contact@nawmagazine.com New African Woman offers intelligent, in-depth and inspirational features, news and visuals on a diverse range of issues that truly speak to and resonate with the modern Black woman while celebrating their diverse accomplishments and aspirations in all spheres, with expert analysis and insights. Team welcomes both female and male contributors. It is recommended that you send an [ … ]
Submit to Flash Fiction Ghana
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2021 Flash Fiction Ghana announces the opening of submissions to its writing prize, “A 1000 for 1000 Writing Prize”. For its inaugural year, the prize will accept Young Adult Literature in 1000 words or less. Individual submissions can be on any theme in either Fiction or Creative Nonfiction. The prize will award the top three winners from [ … ]
Submit: The Shallow Tales Review
Deadline: 20th of each publishing month The Shallow Tales Review accepts fiction, articles, reviews, poems, one-act plays, essays, art photographs, and thoughts that touch on the sensibilities of the African. Literary criticisms must concern texts that are of modern and African temperament. For essays, you should tackle themes logically and as clearly as possible. Feel free to break genre restrictions as [ … ]
Submit to Stripes Magazine
Deadline: Dec. 10, 2020 Stripes Magazine is open for submission; seeking contributors for our E–Issue themed ‘FRUITS’ Stripes Magazine is a literary magazine on a mission to showcase the beginner and emerging writer by being a home for the raw and different. You may write on whatever topic, issue or idea only make sure to allude to a fruit, refer [ … ]
Call for Submission: U-Rights Magazine
Deadline: Nov. 25, 2020. U-Rights Magazine, an online magazine based in Cross River state, calls for submission of original poetry, fiction/non-fiction, and digital content for its first issue. The team publishes works from anywhere in the world three times a year, though it hopes to publish more of African Writings. It accepts submissions via email. All submissions should be sent [ … ]
Submit to the Akuko Magazine Inaugural Literary Contest
Deadline: Nov. 30, 2020. Akuko is a new online magazine that aims to champion writing by Black writers from the African continent and its vast diaspora. Akuko means story in Igbo and rooster in Yoruba. It defines Africa not by the physical continent but by its descendants spread all over the Diaspora. Akuko is currently open for submissions to our inaugural [ … ]
Submit to Inside Wants Out
Deadline: November 1, 2020 The spoken word in Africa has evolved over time and continues to serve many purposes. Tinzwe Media launched Inside Wants Out to provide a creative outlet and opportunity for writers and poets while trying to recreate themselves and conquer the daily challenges of the pandemic. African writers and poets from around the continent are encouraged to submit [ … ]
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 Manuscript to PAROUSIA Magazine
Deadline: June 30, 2020. PAROUSIA Magazine, a Christian magazine, calls for manuscript submissions. Any writer can submit regardless of age, experience or location, as long as the submission adheres to Christian publication standards. A complete submission should include: A cover letter that includes your name, address, telephone, email, and a signed statement that all the poems are your own original work. Your [ … ]
Praxis Call for Submissions – Journal Stories
Deadline: Not dated Teju Cole in his Eight Letters to a Young Writer advises any aspiring writer to keep a journal and write in it every day. Do you? But keeping a journal is not the preserve of writers because any introspective person, with literary skill or not, will soon write as a way to escape or understand or reveal [ … ]
Submit to King Baudouin African Development Prize
Deadline: March 31, 2020 The KBF Africa Prize rewards outstanding contributions to development in Africa initiated and led by Africans. The King Baudouin Foundation awards the €200,000 price each year to its winners and offers unique opportunities for visibility and international promotion. The Prize seeks to draw public attention to inspirational stories emerging from the African continent. The Prize rewards innovative [ … ]
PRAXIS’ Call for Submission
Submissions are welcomed all year round. Praxis Magazine Online is currently inviting submissions in four genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and journal stories. Praxis Magazine Online is a platform for artists and writers to commune, debate, and progress their craft respectively. It covers literary events across Africa, gives voice to emerging writers and artists, and even promotes literature in indigenous languages. Specific [ … ]
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 [ … ]