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March 27, 2023

Got a Place to Go? Apply for a £6,000 Morland Travel Award

Open Country Mag

March 9, 2023

Apply to SBMEN’s Virtual Copyediting Course in March 2023

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

March 5, 2023

Submit to Konya Shamsrumi’s Audiotext Poetry Project: KSR Gazelle

Open Country Mag

March 5, 2023

Apply to Museum of African Diaspora’s Poets-in-Residence Program

Open Country Mag

February 16, 2023

Submit to 20.35 Africa Poetry Series Vol. 6, Guest-edited by Nick Makoha & Safia Jama

20.35 Africa

February 9, 2023

Submit to Sistah Sistah’s African Feminist Anthology

Sistah Sistah

February 9, 2023

SBMEN’s Editorial Practice and Project Management Course in February 2023

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

January 17, 2023

Apply to Oxbelly’s Episodic Program and Retreat for Literary and TV Writers

The inaugural Oxbelly Writers Retreat is led by Program Director Chigozie Obioma and includes Kwame Dawes among the instructors.
Open Country Mag

January 15, 2023

Enter for Graywolf Press’ $12,000 African Fiction Prize, Judged by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Open Country Mag

January 15, 2023

Lambda’s Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

Open Country Mag

November 28, 2022

Submit to Four-Four-Two, a Soccer Poetry Anthology

Open Country Mag

October 13, 2022

Apply To Be an Editorial Intern at 20.35 Africa

The first internship is for graphic design and the second is editorial.
20.35 Africa
20.35 Africa Vol. V

September 17, 2022

Apply to the African Union’s Residencies for Writers and Visual Artists

The project, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and powered by Africa No Filter, is one of several to mark the continental group’s 20th anniversary.
Open Country Mag
AU at 20 - our-africa-our-future-au20

August 4, 2022

The Baltic Writing Residency Prose & Poetry Chapbook Contest, Judged by Kaveh Akbar

Open Country Mag
A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

July 25, 2022

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 6

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.
Lolwe
Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

July 22, 2022

Enter for Simon & Schuster’s $50,000 Books Like Us First Novel Contest

Applicants will submit 25 pages for the first round, and eventually the full manuscript under 80,000 words.
Open Country Mag
okwiri oduor - things they lost - Scribner slash Tristan Offit slash Jacket Art by Lisa Wright

July 16, 2022

Join the Booker Prize Book Club Challenge

Does your book club think it has what it takes to be Booker Prize judges? Would you like to attend this year’s Booker Prize ceremony?
The Booker Prize Foundation
The 2022 Booker Prize judges (L-R): Helen Castor, Alain Mabanckou, Neil MacGregor, M. John Harrison, and Shahidha Bari. © Hugo Glendinning via the Booker Prize Foundation website.

July 11, 2022

Enter for the Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards for British Writers of Colour

In addition to mentorship by Inua Ellams, Jay Bernard, Nadifa Mohamed, Vinay Patel, and Nikesh Shukla, winners will get sessions with Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo.
Open Country Mag
Bernardine Evaristo by Rex.

July 4, 2022

Apply to Be Managing Editor of Conjunctions Journal at Bard College

Open Country Mag
Conjunctions, issue 68.

July 4, 2022

The 2022 SprinNG Women Authors Prize Opens for Submissions ​

The award will select two female Nigerian authors who have published full-length books and invest N300,000 each in purchasing, distributing, and marketing them.
SprinNG
Ukamaka Olisakwe. Credit: Ukamaka Olisakwe.

March 27, 2023

Got a Place to Go? Apply for a £6,000 Morland Travel Award

Open Country Mag

March 9, 2023

Apply to SBMEN’s Virtual Copyediting Course in March 2023

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

March 5, 2023

Submit to Konya Shamsrumi’s Audiotext Poetry Project: KSR Gazelle

Open Country Mag

March 5, 2023

Apply to Museum of African Diaspora’s Poets-in-Residence Program

Open Country Mag

February 16, 2023

Submit to 20.35 Africa Poetry Series Vol. 6, Guest-edited by Nick Makoha & Safia Jama

20.35 Africa

February 9, 2023

Submit to Sistah Sistah’s African Feminist Anthology

Sistah Sistah

February 9, 2023

SBMEN’s Editorial Practice and Project Management Course in February 2023

Society for Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN)

January 17, 2023

Apply to Oxbelly’s Episodic Program and Retreat for Literary and TV Writers

The inaugural Oxbelly Writers Retreat is led by Program Director Chigozie Obioma and includes Kwame Dawes among the instructors.
Open Country Mag

January 15, 2023

Enter for Graywolf Press’ $12,000 African Fiction Prize, Judged by Tsitsi Dangarembga

Open Country Mag

January 15, 2023

Lambda’s Writers’ Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices

Open Country Mag

November 28, 2022

Submit to Four-Four-Two, a Soccer Poetry Anthology

Open Country Mag

October 13, 2022

20.35 Africa Vol. V

Apply To Be an Editorial Intern at 20.35 Africa

The first internship is for graphic design and the second is editorial.
20.35 Africa

September 17, 2022

AU at 20 - our-africa-our-future-au20

Apply to the African Union’s Residencies for Writers and Visual Artists

The project, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and powered by Africa No Filter, is one of several to mark the continental group’s 20th anniversary.
Open Country Mag

August 4, 2022

A bookshop.org store. Image by Book Culture.

The Baltic Writing Residency Prose & Poetry Chapbook Contest, Judged by Kaveh Akbar

Open Country Mag

July 25, 2022

Lolwe Issue 3. Photo credit: "young and hurt" by Teddy Tavan.

Lolwe Calls for Submissions to Issue 6

The issue will be guest-edited by Tlotlo Tsamaase, Frazier Michael, and Lucky Grace. It opens for submissions on August 1.
Lolwe

July 22, 2022

okwiri oduor - things they lost - Scribner slash Tristan Offit slash Jacket Art by Lisa Wright

Enter for Simon & Schuster’s $50,000 Books Like Us First Novel Contest

Applicants will submit 25 pages for the first round, and eventually the full manuscript under 80,000 words.
Open Country Mag

July 16, 2022

The 2022 Booker Prize judges (L-R): Helen Castor, Alain Mabanckou, Neil MacGregor, M. John Harrison, and Shahidha Bari. © Hugo Glendinning via the Booker Prize Foundation website.

Join the Booker Prize Book Club Challenge

Does your book club think it has what it takes to be Booker Prize judges? Would you like to attend this year’s Booker Prize ceremony?
The Booker Prize Foundation

July 11, 2022

Bernardine Evaristo by Rex.

Enter for the Sky Arts RSL Writers Awards for British Writers of Colour

In addition to mentorship by Inua Ellams, Jay Bernard, Nadifa Mohamed, Vinay Patel, and Nikesh Shukla, winners will get sessions with Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo.
Open Country Mag

July 4, 2022

Conjunctions, issue 68.

Apply to Be Managing Editor of Conjunctions Journal at Bard College

Open Country Mag

July 4, 2022

Ukamaka Olisakwe. Credit: Ukamaka Olisakwe.

The 2022 SprinNG Women Authors Prize Opens for Submissions ​

The award will select two female Nigerian authors who have published full-length books and invest N300,000 each in purchasing, distributing, and marketing them.
SprinNG

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