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MaThoko’s Books welcomes entries of unpublished fiction in English, or your literary translation into English of a previously published story. Where necessary, the editors will work closely with writers to develop and refine submissions. Writers need not identify as queer, but do need to identify as African.
Submissions should be sent to queerafricanfiction@gmail.com by Jan. 31. Include a cover page with the title, author’s name, email address, telephone number and a bio of no more than 100 words. Should the work be translated, please also provide the writer’s name, the original title of the story and any publishing details.
Queer Africa won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for a fiction anthology. It is being used to teach literature and queer theory at prestigious universities, and continues to be written about in academic journals.
All submissions will be acknowledged, and the final selection will be made by April 30, 2016. For more information, email queerafricanfiction@gmail.com or find MaThoko’s Books on Facebook.
Deadline: January 31, 2016.