Deadline: December 31.
You can now submit to the TSSF Journal. TSSF Journal seeks well-crafted stories about Africa, Africans, and African issues in all genres from writers of African descents or those associated with Africa. Send your poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction to journal@singlestory[dot]org. Email title should be: TSSF Journal: [Work Name], [category].
It accepts all kinds of stories, whether genre or literary. So, send in speculative, thrillers, romance, comedy, Sci-Fi, magical realism, contemporary, historical, history, mystery, adventure, fantasy, etc. stories and poems. The editors welcome any story or poem, in any category or subject as long as it isn’t racist, sexist, or promoting hatred. They believe that anything, from speculative fiction to romance, to a queer space opera, can be a wonderfully well-written story or poem.
All it asks for is that you send in your original, unpublished work, in one document. You can email in a 4,000 words maximum non-fiction piece, or a 6,000 words maximum fiction piece, or three to five poems. Submission should be sent as a .doc or .rtf attachment, one single document. Failure to adhere to this will result in rejection. Also, entries submitted in the body of the email will not be accepted. Your contact information, such as your name, address, phone, and email, should be in the body of the email. Your bio should also be included in the body of the email.
- TSSF Journal is published yearly. Our publication schedule is as follows:
Submission period: 3 months. For this reading cycle, the period opens Oct. 1 and closes Dec. 31. - Editing period: 3 months. Submitting to TSSF Journal is an opportunity to be mentored and workshop with other published writers and acclaimed editors. Your story, poem, or essay is your application. Our editors take your original, unpublished material – whether raw or polished – and turn it into the final version that pieces will be published in our journal. Expect a couple of going back and forth, receiving feedback each time with our editors.
- Laying and publishing: 1-2months.
The editors for the new edition are Romeo Oriogun as Managing Editor, Temitope Shittu Alamu as Fiction Editor, Tolu Daniel as Nonfiction Editor and Murewa Olubela as Poetry Editor.
It has specific formatting guidelines. So, you would have to visit the TSSF’s Journal call for submission for the detailed guidelines. Please, adhere to them. Other guidelines include the fact that you should not include your name or contact information in the file name, header/footer or title page. Also, you are to include a 100-word bio (max) in the body of the email.
You should also include the title(s) of your work and poems in the body of the email. It will not accept entries submitted in the body of the email. Prose submissions need to be double-spaced, written in Times New Roman or Cambria, 12 pt. font (no courier, please), and have their pages numbered.
Your contact information, such as your name, address, phone, and email, should be in the body of the email. Submissions not following the above guidelines will most often result in an automatic decline. TSSF Journal does not accept simultaneous or previously published works. Also, it only accepts one submission at a time from an author. There is no submission fee. So, it does not pay contributors at this time. Direct inquiries to journal@singlestory[dot]org.