Deadline: Oct. 31, 2016. Going with its African focused Special Issue tradition, EXPOUND has opened calls for its special EXPOUND woman issue. This issue will exclusively explore and appreciate African female writers and artists. As an African woman, you should apply. This issue will be guest edited by Safia Elhillo and Unoma Azuah. Sudanese Safia Elhillo is a Canem fellow and poetry editor for Kinfolks Quarterly: a journal [ … ]
Category: Submission Calls
Closed: Bloody Parchment 2016 Submission Calls
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2016. The South African HorrorFest Bloody Parchment team opens its 2016 competition. The Bloody Parchment team seeks horror, dark fantasy and science fiction short stories and novellas. Any African writer can apply. The Bloody Parchment short story competition aims to develop talented voices in the horror, dark fantasy and weird genres. It offers a platform to boost finalists. A winner [ … ]
Jalada Fear Anthology Now Open
Deadline: Oct. 15. Jalada, on July 20, opened its call out for its Jalada Fear anthology, its sixth edition. You can submit previously unpublished fiction, poetry, visual art and essays that deal with fear. Any type of fear is fair game. Whether it’s the fear of the Other, the fear of death, the fear of failure or success, fear as a weaponised [ … ]
Closed: 2016 African Writer’s Residency Award (AWRA)
Deadline: June 30, 2016 (6 p.m. CET) The African Writer’s Residency Award is awarded by the Sylt Foundation and the Goethe-Institut. The award offers a two-month residency to contemporary African lit. writers. Also, the winner will receive a stipend of €1,500, return travel tickets and visa fees. The Award is open to published writers of fiction, poetry, prose, and plays. Applicants must be African writers, whether living in [ … ]
Closed: new Art new Audiences (nAnA) East African Call
Deadline: July 31, 2016. British Council in Kenya is calling on cultural partners to apply for grants to facilitate the creation of new art to showcase to new audiences in the UK and East Africa as part of its new Art new Audiences (nAnA) program. Only people born/living in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and the UK can apply. East Africa Arts connects new audiences [ … ]
Closed: 2017 Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature
Deadline: Oct. 7, 2016. Presented by Tafelberg Publishing, the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature seeks to develop high quality literature for teenage readers (ages 12-18). The competition is only open to South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland citizens. You can submit your writings in one of the six language categories: English, Afrikaans, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Nguni and Sotho. Each category will have two prizes: R12,000 [ … ]
Closed: Words And Wine Haiku Competition
Deadline: July 31, 2016 The Leopard’s Leap Family Vineyards opens its call for submission for its Words And Wine Haiku Competition. To enter, all you need do is write a haiku written in English inspired by the ‘Words And Wine’ theme. First of all, the winner will get a cash prize of R 5,000. Also, the vineyard will offer you 12 cases of [ … ]
Closed: 2016 Tafelberg Nonfiction Award
Deadline: June 30, 2016 City Press presents its 2016 Tafelberg Nonfiction Award. The Tafelberg Nonfiction Award is South Africa’s largest nonfiction manuscript development for publication award. A biennially award, City Press offers R120,000 and manuscript publication by Tafelberg, an imprint of NB Publishers, a leading publishing house in South Africa. The award is for English manuscripts only. The proposed book should be accessible, with quality writing. It should add [ … ]
Closed: Voices on Fire Poetry Competition
Deadline: July 22, 2016 (4 p.m.) McGregor Poetry Festival opened its Voices on Fire Poetry Competition to unpublished poets ages 19+ and ages 13 to 18. Those ages 19+ should apply for the Open Category to win R 7,500 and a trophy. While poets ages 13 to 18 should apply for the High School Category to win a R2,500 book voucher and a trophy. The finalists could see their poetry [ … ]
Closed: I love African Literature Contest
Deadline: July 15 Submit to Brittle Paper‘s I love African Literature writing contest and stand a chance to win $100. The contest is open to everyone: old, youthful, aspiring writer, seasoned writer, African, non-African, etc. If you read and love African literature, here’s your chance to prove it. To enter the I love African Literature writing contest, write a 300-350 word affirmation of love to African literature [ … ]
Closed: 2016 Morland Writing Scholarships
Deadline: Monday, Oct. 31, 2016 The Miles Morland Foundation (MMF) opened its 2016 Morland Writing Scholarships for African writers on June 30. The scholarship is open to anyone born or whose parents were born in Africa who writes in English. The goal of the scholarship is to provide Scholars the opportunity to write a completed book. Only published writers can apply. Scholars writing fiction will receive a grant of [ … ]
Closed: 2016 New Voices Mentorship Competition
Deadline: July 30, 2016 (extended from July 20) The 2016 New Voices Mentorship Competition, organized by New Contrast, is now open for submission until July 30. A poet or author will win in each language category: IsiXhosa, English or Afrikaans, a total of three winners. The winners will be mentored for 3 months by an established poet or author. Prose winners shall produce a short story during the [ … ]
Closed: Digital Lab Africa
Deadline: Aug. 31 2016. Digital Lab Africa calls for multimedia creation projects. It is open to any artists, producers, start-up, SMEs, collectives, students or entrepreneurs from Sub-Saharan Africa. Applicants have to be based in this region or being nationals of one of the Sub-Saharan African countries, provided the project development is mostly implemented locally. The four categories of the Digital Lab Africa multimedia [ … ]
Closed: British Council Connect ZA 2016 OPEN CALL
The British Council Connect ZA Arts Programme seeks original and adventurous artistic project proposals, which tell and share the story of contemporary South Africa and the UK, culminating in high quality live, or digital performance, showcase or other public facing events, to form part of the British Council Connect ZA Arts Programme 2016/17. The programme supports connections between young people aged 18-35 [ … ]
Closed: SUNU Journal Submissions
A Wolof word meaning our, SUNU Journal engages critically African issues and topics at continental, regional, national and international levels through literary work, research papers and compelling visuals. SUNU’s mission is to amplify the youth voice and contribute to strengthening their collective consciousness in critical engagement with African affairs, and aesthetics. Accepted on a rolling basis, Submissions should critically and creatively explore topics [ … ]
Closed: scrutiny2 Calls for Papers
scrutiny2, which publishes issues in English studies in Southern Africa calls for papers commemorating the life and work of Lauretta Ngcobo (1931-2015). Ngcobo was a pioneering black feminist writer, committed political activist, teacher, and writer. She became one of the first black South African women to publish a novel in English. Her published titles includes Cross of gold (1981), her first novel, and her most [ … ]
Closed: Fak’Ugesi Residency Call
Fak’Ugesi call for artists to participate in the annual Digital Africa Festival’s Residency in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Residency in collaboration with Pro Helvetia Johannesburg. The focus of the Fak’ugesi Festival is the role of alternative knowledge and organisational systems in technology. It seeks artists and creative technologists, from contemporary art, game design, interactive design and creative computing, who explore concepts of [ … ]
Closed: Omenana Open for Submission
Deadline: May 29. Omenana seeks works that explore alternative futures for Africa and people of African descent – with a preference for positive iterations. You can also explore the past as well as provide new interpretations of myths, folklore and magic. It does not accept graphic violent or sexual content. Omenana is a speculative fiction e-magazine that specializes in magical realism, fantasy, horror, and science fiction with African elements in them. [ … ]
Closed: Words that Travel: African Storytelling
Afrikult. presents the second of its three-part series Words that Travel. Running throughout 2016, each event focuses on particular mediums and traditions of African literature with the second featuring African storytelling. Words that Travel aims to showcase the wonderful and rich diversity within the African literary genre. The all day event will be held at SOAS, University of London. Afrikult. will host an Open Lit [ … ]
Modern Poetry in Translation Calls for African Poetry
Modern Poetry in Translation (MPT) Opens Call for African Poetry. Its focus for this summer is on translations of poems originally written in African languages. As its name suggests, MPT publishes only unpublished translations of poems not originally written in English. While it has a preference for contemporary work, MPT is happy to receive work from any era. Modern Poetry in Translation Submission Guideline: You can submit up [ … ]