Winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature were announced Tuesday, November 17. The prize recognizes writing in African languages and encourages translation from, between and into African languages. The inaugural winners are: 1st Fiction Prize, 5,000 US dollars: Anna Samwel for Penzi la Damu 1st Poetry Prize, 5,000 US dollars: Mohammed K. Ghassani for N’na Kwetu 2nd [ … ]
Category: Submission Calls
Transition’s Call for Submission
Theme: Reconsidering Roots: The Phenomenon that Changed the Way We Understood American Slavery Transition is particularly interested in topics that examine Roots in the Age of Obama or Roots’ reception outside of the United States. Will consider full submissions of short fiction, poetry, and original artwork on the theme. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words between now and December [ … ]
Submission Call for works about People with Down Syndrome
Short story and art/photography submissions on people living with Down Syndrome are currently being accepted for a yet-to-be-titled literary anthology. Samuel Oluwatobi Olatunji will be the editor of the short stories, while Julie Willson will be the editor of the artwork/photography. Submit not more than two short stories in a single word file (.doc/docx), and four artworks/photography that are strictly on [ … ]
Call for Ugandan Female Poets
Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation calls for Ugandan female poets to read their poetry on stage at the #Babishai2016 Poetry Festival from 24-26 August 2016, with the theme, Abundance: Poetry From Contemporary Africa. Eligibility: If you are a Ugandan female poet, send the following: A one-page summary of what you propose to showcase (as MS Word attachment) A 500-word bio (as MS Word attachment) A recent [ … ]
Bakwa’s End of Year Music Feature
Bakwa likes to close the year with in-depth reflections on culture. For this feature on music in 2015, Bakwa invites critics, journalists, cultural observers as well as readers to review the year’s most captivating musical experiences. Submissions may take the form of an album review, concert review, festival review, or a curated selection of music videos. Submissions should be sent [ … ]
Lunar Review’s Issue 2
Lunaris Review, a journal that concerns itself with arts and the incalculable benefits of literature is open for submissions for its second issue. It seeks creative, original and previously unpublished works of literary fictions (flash fictions and short stories), creative non-fictions, essays, poetry, artworks and photography. This second issue is due out in January. There is no submission fee charged. [ … ]
Saraba’s Manuscript Call
Saraba’s Manuscript Project is open to Nigerian writers, who are at least 18 years of age, resident in Nigeria or elsewhere in the world. Submit completed fiction or non-fiction manuscripts. Each writer is expected to submit only one manuscript for either the fiction or non-fiction category. The contest will produce a shortlist of ten writers, five in each category. All shortlisted manuscripts will [ … ]
Writivism 2016 Creative Writing Workshops Call for Applications
A project of the Centre for African Cultural Excellence, Writivism identifies, mentors, publishes and promotes emerging African writers resident in any country in the Africa or in the Caribbean. Writivism provides creative writing workshops, online mentoring, newspaper publication of flash fiction, publication of an annual anthology, a schools’ programme, an annual short story prize for short fiction and an annual literary [ … ]
The Journal of African Cultural Studies Calls for Papers on ‘Boredom
Boredom has had many historians, and a number of book-length studies are available on the topic. Most of these are focused on the white male canon of western literature. In the edited collection by Paul Tyambe Zeleze and Cassandra Rachel Veney, Leisure in Urban Africa, leisure is theorised in ways that can usefully be placed alongside a new theory of boredom, and to [ … ]