Deadline: July 31, 2016. Cameroonians, submit to the Bakwa Magazine Short Story Competition. Founded in 2011, Bakwa is an online magazine that fills the lacuna created by the absence of high standard cultural and literary magazines in Cameroon. So, it focuses on cultural and literary criticism about Cameroon and Africa. It provides a space where African writers can be published, with the intention of [ … ]
Category: Submission Calls
Africa Writes Abstract Submission Calls
Africa Writes Abstract Submission Calls seeks submissions from Ph.D. students, early career scholars and independent researchers on ideas and approaches to African literatures. Africa Writes is an annual festival organised by the Royal African Society, which aims to promote contemporary African writing and writers as well as to explore Africa’s long literary past and its future. Academic discourse on African literatures [ … ]
Koffi Addo and Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prizes
Are you a Ghanaian writer or storytellers, whether fiction or non-fiction? Then, submit to both Koffi Addo and Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prizes. The Koffi Addo Writivism Prize for Non Fiction is an annual award for emerging African writers resident in Ghana. While the The Abena Korantemaa Writivism Prize for Oral History is an annual award for emerging African writers and storytellers resident in Ghana. [ … ]
My Africa Photo Competition
As part of its 10th year anniversary, Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) invites Africans to submit to its My Africa Photo Competition. My Africa Photo Competition provides an opportunity for African photographers to capture their vision of Africa through their own lenses. MIF seeks images that capture Africa in its many diverse settings and communities, depicting what developments, challenges and opportunities could [ … ]
Submit to Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation
The Okot P’Bitek Prize for Poetry in Translation, a one-off award for emerging African poets administered by the Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE), aims to award poets who write in African indigenous languages and translate their works. CACE seeks to celebrate bi-linguality and self-translation by African poets. To apply for the award, you must be a resident African emerging poet who is [ … ]
Apply to the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop
You get a chance to study with Chimamanda Adichie at the Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop! Chimamanda Adichie, Farafina Trust’s creative director, will host the creative writing workshop in Lagos, from June 21 to July 1, 2016. Binyavanga Wainaina, Aslak Sira Myhre and others will co-teach the workshop alongside Adichie. At the workshop, accepted participants will be assigned a wide range of reading exercises, [ … ]
2016 Writivism Short Story Prize Ends in 4 Days
The 2016 Writivism Short Story Prize is an annual award for emerging African writers administered by the Center for African Cultural Excellence (CACE). Entrants must be unpublished writers, resident in an African country. Only one entry per writer may be submitted for the Writivism Short Story Prize. The story must be original and previously unpublished in any form except on the writer’s [ … ]
The Naked Convos’ The Writer Competition
The Naked Convos recently opened its The Writer Competition, which has been run for 3 successful editions. Twelve finalists will be shortlisted from the qualification entry submissions based on the quality of their flash fiction. These writers will be mentored by the The Naked Convos judges and will contest in four rounds of the contest. Three contestants will be evicted every week through public voting. [ … ]
Submit to the Project GirlSpire Short Story Anthology
Resources and Outreach for Liberia (ROL) seeks female writers to submit stories to its GirlSpire short story anthropology that will focus on female empowerment. Stories should be between 2,500- 5,000 words. Stories should be young adult or new adult, but can be dark and ominous, humorous, or even fantastical. ROL’s goal is to empower at-risk girls in post-war, and now, post-Ebola Liberia (West [ … ]
Submit to the New Orleans Review
Mukoma wa Ngugi and Laura Murphy will be guest editing The African Literary Hustle, a New Orleans Review special print issue. You can submit to The African Literary Hustle your romance, science fiction, fantasy, epic, and experimental fiction pieces, your satire, political allegory, and critical non-fiction, translations, or revised narratives, and your poetry. The African Literary Hustle specifications Prose submissions should be 7,500 words or fewer. Poetry [ … ]
Saraba Magazine Nonfiction Manuscripts Call
Based on the limited number of nonfiction manuscripts submitted to its recent manuscript call, Saraba Magazine announces its Saraba Magazine nonfiction manuscripts call Saraba Magazine nonfiction manuscripts call requests proposals for nonfiction manuscripts such as memoirs, biographies, and reportage which would be completed by August 2016. Four writers will be commissioned for the nonfiction project. Writers should aim to work on manuscripts of 10,000 to 25,000 words. Each [ … ]
nantygreens’ Poetry Submissions Call
nantygreens is putting together an anthology of poetry as part of a series of activities marking Professor Oloruntoba-Oju’s 50th birthday. nantygreens seeks poems that celebrate Professor Oloruntoba-Oju’s ideological vision, commitment, and consistency, her vibrant contributions to the critical reception of African and African Diaspora Literature, and her selflessness in transforming lives in the academia. nantygreens would appreciate poems that are rooted in [ … ]
Obsidian’s Special Issue Submissions
The editors of Obsidian invite you to participate in the journal’s celebration of four decades of excellence in the arts by submitting original unpublished work for its first double-volume issue exploring the speculative genre. Obsidian seeks original works that explore and reimagine black thought, black art, future and past. Selected works will appear in Obsidian’s fall 2016 double-issue edited by Sheree Renée Thomas and Nisi [ … ]
POPCAP Calls for Contemporary African Photography Entries
Piclet.org calls for submissions to POPCAP, a prize for contemporary African Photography. POPCAP is directed at photographers whose work engages with the African continent and/or its diaspora. The prize consists of global exposure at major international photography exhibitions. Submitted works will be judged according to exposure focus/sharpness, colour and/or tonal rendition and lighting. Visual and aesthetic criteria include framing and choice of viewpoint, design elements and [ … ]
MaThoko’s Books Calls for Queer Africa II Submission
MaThoko’s Books invites writers to submit short stories of 2,000 – 6,000 words on a queer African theme for the follow-up to its award-winning anthology, Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction. Stories will be selected and edited by Karen Martin and Makhosazana Xaba. MaThoko’s Books welcomes entries of unpublished fiction in English, or your literary translation into English of a previously published story. [ … ]
Dance Umbrella & Goethe-Institut Call for 2016 Dance Writing Workshop Participants
Aspiring and established South African arts writers are invited to apply for Goethe-Institut JHB’s dance writing workshop. The workshop will facilitated by Mary Corrigall. The workshop will take place at the Dance Forum in Newtown, Johannesburg, from Feb. 2 – 5 and from Feb. 22 – 23, 2016. The workshop seek to identify prospective dance writers for the 2016 Dance Umbrella and provide them tools [ … ]
Omenana’s Call for Submission
Omenana, a tri-monthly speculative fiction e-magazine, is open to submissions from writers from Africa and the African Diaspora. Stories and art must be speculative fiction (Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror or Magical Realism) and must involve characters, settings or themes directly related to the African continent. Stories and art should challenge normative ideas about gender, sexuality, ethnicity and religious belief. All stories and art must be in English [ … ]
An open call for children’s fiction submissions from debut BAME writers
Nosy Crow recently announced an open call for children’s fiction submissions from debut BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) writers. Nosy Crow is a small, multi-award-winning, independent company. It began publishing child-focused, parent-friendly children’s books and apps in January 2011 with the aim of creating books and apps that encourage children to read for pleasure. It’s one of the country’s fastest growing [ … ]
Closes in TWO days, Submit to the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets
The 2015 submission period for the Sillerman First Book Prize is currently opened. It was opened on Sept. 15 and will remain open till Dec. 1. The Sillerman First Book Prize considers electronic submissions only. Hard copy submissions will be recycled unread. The Prize: The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry is awarded annually to an African poet who has [ … ]
Addis Foto Fest Open Call
The international Addis Foto Fest Fourth Edition will be taking place in December of 2016. It’s now receiving submissions. If you are a photographer, curator, or photography collective and would like to submit your work for consideration to be exhibited in the festival, please send images, 10 low resolution, in .jpg, a bio, and a 500 word maximum description of your work. Send your submission [ … ]