Deadline: Oct. 8, 2018. The Type/Cast editorial collective announces a new call for submissions. It seeks fiction, poetry, and short nonfiction works. Xabiso Vili will guest edit this issue. Your work can touch on literally having to deal with physical spaces that are contested. Or, you can write about emotional or intellectual spaces, or any other space you may conceive. Email your previously [ … ]
Category: Submission Calls
Enter the N500,000 Union Bank Campus Writing Challenge
Deadline: Oct. 7, 2018 (12 midnight WAT). The Union Bank Campus Writing Challenge is an OkadaBooks initiative sponsored by Union Bank. The contest focuses on discovering young, raw and bold writing talents across Nigeria and giving them with the necessary support to hone their craft and become master storytellers. Therefore, this contest is strictly for undergraduates of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. To [ … ]
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 [ … ]
The impepho press submissions call
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2018. The impepho press has opened the submission frame for collection of poetry and short stories to be published in 2019. The press is a Pan Africanist publishing house committed to the sincere telling of African and international stories. It accepts book-length manuscripts and collections, whether poetry or short stories. It wants submissions from people born on the African continent [ … ]
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, [ … ]
Submit to Poetica: The African Girl Child
Deadline: Sept. 10, 2018. Poetica, a new African poetry magazine published by the African Writers Development Trust, is delighted to announce its maiden call for entries for its quarterly publication. Dedicated to discovering the finest poems by African writers, the magazine seeks exceptional poems on the theme: The African Girl Child. The theme for the debut is in conformity with the African [ … ]
The Emma Press calls for submissions of poems on illness
Deadline: August 31, 2018. Send your poems on illness to The Emma Press for publication in its anthology launching in April 2019. You may submit up to three poems. Amy Mackelden and Dylan Jaggard will edit the anthology. Amy Mackelden is a poet and writer who co-founded the poetry magazine Butcher’s Dog and is the Weekend Editor at HarpersBAZAAR.com. Dylan Jaggard has been published [ … ]
Call for Submission: Africa in Dialogue
Deadline: July 30, 2018. Africa in Dialogue engages in dialogues with Africa’s leading storytellers on various contemporary, historical, philosophical and social discourses that affect Africans in Africa and the Diaspora. It invites Africans to submit original, unpublished dialogues with African storytellers. Billy Kahora, renown writer and managing editor of Kwani?, will guest-edit the second issue. Send in original and unpublished interviews no longer than [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Enter the SCrIBE Scriptwriting Competition
Deadline: July 31, 2018. The SCrIBE scriptwriting competition provides an opportunity for South African writers to have their work produced and showcased. To enter, you must be 21+ years South African resident. You must currently reside in South Africa. To apply, email a submit a completed entry form and your Microsoft Word document script to imbewusa@gmail.com, titled “Playwriting Competition”. The script must [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Stellenbosch University Museum Calls for Submission
Deadline: July 16, 2018. Stellenbosch University Museum encourages artists to submit proposals for artworks that engage with ideas around the future of higher education in the next 100 years. It will be exhibiting the artworks as part of the Stellenbosch University Centenary, open December 5, 2018. It wants compelling, innovative and thought-provoking works that will serve as catalysts for debate and engagement [ … ]
PIAD OPENLab 2018
Deadline: May 4, 2018. The Programme for Innovation in Artform Development (PIAD) presents OPENLab 2018, a national laboratory for early and mid-career artists and creative practitioners. Applicants must be South African citizens or have permanent resident status in South Africa. Proof of citizenship or residency may be required. It is an open and intensive residency platform aimed to generate new [ … ]
Wawa Book Review Young Literary Critics Fellowship Competition
Deadline: April 30, 2018. Enter the 2018 Wawa Book Review Young Literary Critics Fellowship Competition. Wawa Book Review will offer 10 reviewers a ten-month fellowship. The competition and the fellowship are open to all students in Nigerian universities who were under the age of 35. During the fellowship, the reviewers will receive practical training in literary criticism, new books from around the continent, and a [ … ]
Mo Issa Writing Workshops by Writers Project of Ghana
Deadline: April 23rd, 2018. Writers Project of Ghana calls for submission to the first edition of its Mo Issa Writing Workshops. The workshop series will run on weekends over a five-month period. It will involve workshops, discussion sessions, and online interactions with accomplished writers and other facilitators. To apply, send an e-mail with the subject “Mo Issa Writing Workshops” to submissions@writersprojectghana.com. Include a [ … ]
Submit to Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel
Deadline: May 17, 2018. Panorama: The Journal of Intelligent Travel exists to draw attention to every part of the scene so that people are able to see and hear the images and voices excluded from the conventional, narrow travel narrative. Panorama emphasizes writing and photography which is created with a deep intelligence, reconnecting us to the world. Panorama calls for you to submit [ … ]
Submission Call: Dinaane Debut Fiction Award
Deadline: June 30, 2018. Jacana Media calls for submissions, written in English, for its 2018 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award. Dinaane aims to promote new southern African fiction that speaks to both a local and international audience. It encourages new writers and new readers by publishing material which would likely otherwise not have been selected – for purely commercial reasons – [ … ]
Closed: FIYAH Summer 2018 Submissions
Deadline: April 30, 2018 FIYAH, a quarterly speculative fiction magazine, seeks submission for its 7th issue, themed Music. Music is the language of the soul. For this issue, FIYAH seeks stories where music plays a central role. Maybe the devil really does hand out talent at the crossroads, or maybe that lounge singer isn’t quite what she seems. Send your stories [ … ]
Enkare Review accepts unsolicited submissions
Deadline: April 30, 2018. Enkare Review is currently accepting submissions centered around the subject of inclusivity. Submit poetry, fiction, and non-fiction submissions, written in English or translated into English to submissions@enkare.org. Also include a cover letter, indicating if your submission is a translation and the original language. Email your submission as a Word documents (.doc or .docx) attachment. Therefore, do not paste [ … ]
Call for Submission: Babishai 2018
Deadline: May 26, 2018. The Babishai Niwe Poetry Foundation opens its 2018 Babishai Poetry Competition to all African poets who will not have published a full-length poetry collection by July 2018. Ugandan Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva founded The Babishai Poetry Prize in 2009 to shine a light on the Ugandan poetry scene. The 2018 Babishai Poetry Competition winner will receive $700USD and [ … ]