Deadline: rolling basis The SA Artist magazine is offering you the opportunity to get your art published. Simply complete the form and upload up to 10 (min 3) images (no larger than 2mb each). Submit your art through its submission form. The South African Artist magazine is the only practical visual arts magazine in South Africa. Content includes interviews and [ … ]
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Kalahari Review
Kalahari Review is an African-eccentric magazine interested in material exploring Africa and Africans in unique and avant-garde ways. Telling new stories from everyday African life as told by the people that are living it. It seeks stories that have not often been told but should be – through voices that have not yet been heard – but should. The Kalahari [ … ]
Submit to Jalada 08: Bodies
Deadline: Oct. 11, 2019. Jalada seeks short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, and poetry that play with the very concept of the body and bodies. The team wants creative submissions that (re)imagine and (re)define bodies; pieces that look at bodies beyond flesh and bone; pieces that look at bodies in and through flesh and bone; that challenge human’s preconceived notions of [ … ]
Submit: Journal of African Youth Literature (JAYL)
Deadline: Sept. 30, 2019. The Journal of African Youth Literature (JAYL) publishes literature written in English by, about, and/or for born-in-Africa youths. For the purposes of the Journal, the youth age category is defined as beginning in the mid-teenage years (from 15) up to 35 years. JAYL is interested in the types of literature listed below. Please note the lengths [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Saraba Magazine Calls for Submissions
Deadline: Dec. 31, 2017. Saraba Magazine calls for submissions for its 2018 Saraba issues. The themes are Open (#22), Fake Truths (#23), and Viral (#24). It will pay published writers ₦10,000 (approximately $30). It asks prospective contributors to interpret the themes in singular, yet compelling ways. Submit unpublished works that address any of the three themes. And, in your cover letter, [ … ]
Submit to Kabaka Magazine
Deadline: Dec.12. Kabaka Magazine is a quarterly queer literary magazine. It publishes original, unpublished poetry, fiction, visual arts, photography, videos, non-fiction: interviews, reviews, memoir pieces, and essays. It wants works that interrogate what it means to be queer and African. Kabaka Magazine believes that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex lives are part of the African experience and culture. As [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Submit to the Anansesem Love Theme Issue
Deadline: not dated. Anansesem publishes children’s and young adult fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and illustration. It currently accepts submissions for its September 2017 issue, with a “Love” theme. Interpret personally or broadly what love means to you, the community, and the world in general. Send in up-to-five poems, one 2,000-word max short story, one 2,000-word max nonfiction, and a collection of up-to-five images. Type [ … ]
Asymptote’s Literature from Countries Banned by Trump
Deadline: March 15. Asymptote plans to publish literature from countries banned by Trump. So, submit your unpublished fiction, nonfiction, and poetry pieces if you’re a Somalian and Sudanese writer. It will pay you at least US $200 for each published piece. Asymptote also will run the selected works either in or both The Guardian’s Translation Tuesday or its Spring quarterly edition. You can submit both works written [ … ]
District Lit. Disability, Medicine, and Illness Submissions
Deadline: March 15. District Lit. seeks poetry, nonfiction, and art submission. Currently, it reads submission for its Disability, Medicine, and Illness themed issue. The upcoming issue will highlight what it means to live with a disability, illness, or undergo medical treatments. According to District Lit., We want writing and art about chronic illness, disability, medical histories and procedures, recovery, and the [ … ]
Bhashabandhan Literary Review Submission
Deadline: no deadline. Submit to Bhashabandhan Literary Review (BLR), acclaimed Bangla literary magazine. It accepts previously unpublished poetry, short stories, flash fiction, memoir, essay, and artwork. So, send in your interesting and well-written works. Submit up to 4,000 words single-spaced fiction or nonfiction writing, 3-5 poems in a single attachment, or four to 10 high res images. Save your written submissions as a Word or [ … ]
Submit to EXPOUND Magazine’s Issue 9 Edition
Deadline: Feb. 28. Submit to EXPOUND Magazine‘s Issue 9 edition, which the magazine currently reads for. It accepts submissions from around the world. EXPOUND publishes original, quality poetry, fiction, photography, artworks, videos, and non-fiction. Non-fiction accepted include interviews, reviews, memoir pieces, and essays. The magazine seeks written works and art that “provoke, investigate, surprise, entertain and startle any reader.” It particularly clamours [ … ]
Closed: TSSF Magazine Open Call
Deadline: Jan. 31, 2017. TSSF Magazine, on Nov 1, opened its call for submissions. Disclosure: TSSF Magazine is one of the projects of The Single Story Foundation, which runs this site. TSSF Magazine seeks well-crafted, realistic stories from writers of African descents or those associated with Africa. Send your poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and visual art to publication@singlestory[dot]org. Email title should be: TSSF Mag: [Work [ … ]
Transition Religion Call
Deadline: Jan. 1, 2017 For the Transition Religion Call, submit your essays, interviews, poetry, fiction, and visual art that reflect on the role of religion in Africa and diaspora. Transition seeks fresh perspectives about the role and meaning of religion in the African Diaspora. Also, it seeks perspectives about conflict, and resettlement triggered by inter/intra-religious confrontation. Transition accepts simultaneous submissions but does [ … ]
Closed: EXPOUND Woman Issue Call
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 [ … ]
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: 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 [ … ]
National Art Competition
The National Art Competition is an annual arts competition organised by African Artists’ Foundation, with each edition driven by pertinent themes in line with current social issues. Now in its seventh year, the National Art Competition has showcased emerging talent in such diverse mediums as painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, installation, and video art. With a focus on the processes [ … ]