Deadline: Sept. 10, 2017. Q-zine invites visual artists from Africa and the African diaspora to share work that speaks to or about the queer experience in the broadest sense. For its next issue, it focuses on new developments in African visual arts from a queer perspective. The team welcomes photography, painting, drawing, video, digital art, or any other visual medium submission. [ … ]
Category: Submission Calls
Submission Call: COALNG Literary Magazine
Deadline: August 31. COALNG seeks exceptional literary poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and nonfiction submissions. So, submit poems, short stories, essays, reviews, interviews, spoken word videos/ audios or literary commentaries. And word count includes 2000 words maximum for fiction, 300-600 words for book reviews, and 400 words max for literary commentaries. And according to its site, COALNG is broad and inclusive in perspective spanning the spectrum of various [ … ]
Submit to Nthanda Review, a Malawian online magazine
Deadline: No deadline. Nthanda Review publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, folk tales, essays and reviews of any length. It accepts both unpublished and previously published works. If you have a previously published work, contact the team with details of the submission. And if you’re submitting an unpublished work, the team reserves first publishing rights and the rights revert back to you. You [ … ]
Submit to the 2017 Bloody Parchment Short Story Competition
Deadline: October 31, 2017. South African HorrorFest Bloody Parchment announces that its 2017 Bloody Parchment Short Story Competition is now open. It seeks fresh, disturbing and disconcerting new voices in SFF, most especially stories that fall under the horror and dark fantasy/SF genres. That being said, please don’t submit stories that rely purely on gratuitous violence and rape for its punch. That [ … ]
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 [ … ]
2017 Morland Writing Scholarships for African Writers
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2017 Annually, the Miles Morland Foundation (MMF) awards a small number of Morland Writing Scholarships to African writers. The Foundation desires to help selected Scholars produce the first draft of their completed book. It opens the scholarship to anyone born or whose parents were born in Africa. Also, Scholars must write in English. Do note that only published writers can apply. Scholars writing [ … ]
The Afro Vibe: Call for Submission
Deadline: none. Founded by EXPOUND‘s editor, Wale Owoade, The Afro Vibe is a digital pop-culture magazine that will launch in August in 12 African cities. The culture magazine will pay staff writers and commissioned contributors to cover travel, fashion, music, arts, film, tv, and other topics. The team consists of five staff contributors so far. It looks forward to opinion essays, articles, travelogues, interviews, and [ … ]
Submit: Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award and Anthology
Deadline: July 16, 2017 (5 pm). Jacana Literary Foundation currently accepts submission for its Sol Plaatje EU Poetry Award and Anthology. Writers should submit previously unpublished poems in any of the 11 South African languages. It encourages entrants to submit poems written in their mother tongue. Providing no set theme, the Foundation hopes the Award “reflects the complex, nuanced and uncomfortable [ … ]
Submission Call: 2017 RL Poetry Award
Deadline: Aug. 5, 2017. The Poetry Mail invites you to submit to its 4th RL Poetry Award. Submit eight to 10 poems from manuscripts you currently work on or have completed. You can submit a mix of published and unpublished poems. Or, your manuscript can consist of only unpublished poems. Save all your poems as one single Word document. Indicate on [ … ]
Submissions Call: PRAXIS Response Chapbook
Deadline: July 21, 2017. Send in response poems for the next PRAXIS response chapbook, Around This Fire 5. PRAXIS recently published Iskandar Haggarty’s digital chapbook, There Are No Women in Our House. And, it currently seeks response poems to Haggarty’s chapbook. Email your response poems in the body of your email to halima@praxismagonline.com. Also, include “ATF5 Submission” as the subject line of the email. Same, include your [ … ]
Call for submission: Mounting the Moon Project
Deadline: Sept. 15, 2017. Unoma Azuah and Michelle Omas call for submissions to their Mounting the Moon project, a collection of queer Nigerian love poems. The Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act proposed in 2006 and passed in 2013 raised debates over sexual and gender rights in Nigeria. Homophobia and transphobia erupted in the public sphere. Threats and attacks against LGBT writers, activists, as [ … ]
World Environment Day Writing Contest
Deadline: May 26, 2017 12:00 pm (noon) WAT. The U.S. Embassy Abuja sponsors this year’s World Environment Day Writing Contest to promote environmental awareness and literacy. Open to amateur, unpublished writers, submit an original short story to enter. Your entry should be a-1,500-3,500 word piece on the theme of “Connecting People to Nature.” You must be 18-35 years old and a resident of Nigeria to be [ … ]
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. [ … ]
Submission Call: 2018 Golden Baobab Prize
Deadline: Dec. 1. Golden Baobab Prize invites African writers and illustrators to submit entries for this year’s prize. The Prize celebrates African writers and illustrators of children’s stories. It awards them for their work. Winners and longlisted entrants have to provide a copy of their passports or comparable documents. There are no restrictions on age or race. While it offers no theme, [ … ]
Pitch to Jacana Media
Pitch to Jacana Media Deadline: July 14, 2017. You can now pitch to Jacana Media. Like many publishers, it receives a large number of submissions of unsolicited manuscripts every week. This means hours spent wading through many emails as we try to give every author feedback on their work. Writers often try to arrange meetings with publishers, convinced that meeting the publisher in [ … ]
Submit: The Okike Prize for Literature
Deadline: June 5. The Okike Prize for Literature, a new Nigerian initiative, awards literary excellence amongst bright university undergraduates all over Nigeria. An Igbo word, Okike means creator. Though contextually, it means creativity. Right now, the initiative accepts fiction, poetry, and drama submission. Only Nigerian universities undergraduates can apply. Okike Prize for Literature offers no particular theme for this submission call. So, [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Residency: 7th FEMRITE Regional Residency
Deadline: July 15, 2017. FEMRITE announces calls for its 7th FEMRITE Regional Residency for African women writers, to be held in Kampala. Karavan, a quarterly Swedish literary magazine, will also co-host the residency. A women’s biggest challenge has always been a lack of space and time to write. FEMRITE seeks to provide space for women to write, to promote intercultural literary discourse, [ … ]
Submission Call: Mabati Cornell Kiswahili
Deadline: May 31, 2017. Cornell University awards $15,000 for its Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize yearly. The prize honors writers with unpublished manuscripts, or recently published books (within two years) written in Kiswahili. So, you can submit your manuscript or books in any of the fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and graphic novels categories. The $15,000 is divided into $5,000 for 1st place fiction, $5,000 for 1st place poetry, $3,000 for [ … ]
Commonwealth Youth Council: Unseen & Unspoken
Deadline: May 31, 2017 (1700 GMT). Commonwealth Youth Council launches Unseen & Unspoken to commemorate World Braille Day. It seeks to raise awareness about the experience and lives of young people with disabilities who the spotlight does not really shine on. Therefore, submit poetry around the theme: My disability does not define me. The disability can be visible or invisible disabilities such as [ … ]