Opportunities

January 21, 2022

11 Magazines Currently Open for Submissions

Including The Threepenny Review, A Public Space, Isele, and Lolwe.

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 2021.

Submit to Bakwa’s “Woman Issue,” Guest-edited by Anwuli Ojogwu

Submit to World Literature Today’s “New African Voices” Portfolio

It is guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw.

Bookshop.org Launches New Futures, an Initiative for Underrepresented Communities

Partnering with The Booksellers Association, Gardners, and The Bookseller, the initiative will see booksellers from Black and marginalized groups open their own indie bookshops.

A Long House Announces the Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship

The fellowship is named after Rajat Neogy, the Ugandan writer and editor who founded Transition Magazine at age 22.

Submissions Open for 2021 SprinNG Women Authors Prize

The award for female Nigerian authors “invests N200,000 in purchasing, distributing, and marketing print copies of their books.”

Dgëku, a Literary Magazine for Queer Africans, Calls for Submissions

The new publication pays $150 for prose pieces of 3,000 words or more, $30 for an individual poem, and $100 maximum for a suite of poems.

7 Literary Magazines Accepting Submissions in August

Submit Your Unagented Manuscript to Soft Skull Press

“We want our books to offer a refuge from, an alternative to, and an argument against mainstream culture and mainstream thinking,” says the independent publisher.

Submit Your Collection to the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry

Submitted books must be in English.

The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund 2022 Calls for Proposals

Winning projects for the $200,000 Fund will be expected to “develop reading culture beyond the classroom in Africa.”

A Long House Calls for Submissions to First Issue, Origins

In an age where the African/Black sense of being and history are seemingly bracketed by discourse surrounding slavery and post-colonialism, we offer the possibility to create new readings of ourselves.

A Long House

June 22, 2021

Submit to the Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Awards 2021

Win £10,000 for your un-agented, unpublished work-in-progress.

Ernest Ogunyemi

June 5, 2021

Submit to Black Warrior Review’s 2021 Contests

The categories are fiction, poetry, essays, and flash fiction.

Ernest Ogunyemi

June 5, 2021

Enter for Epiphany’s Fresh Voices Fellowship

The $2,000 offer is for writers without an MFA.

Ernest Ogunyemi

June 5, 2021

Apply to Shenandoah’s Fellowship for Editors

It is open to only Black, Indigenous, and writers of colour.

Ernest Ogunyemi

April 14, 2021

Pluto Press Launches Walter Rodney Prize for African & Caribbean Non-Fiction

The £4,000 initiative, for women and non-binary debut authors influenced by Walter Rodney, comes with publication.

Paula Willie-Okafor

April 11, 2021

Submit to Africa Risen, a Speculative Fiction Anthology, Co-edited by Sheree Renée Thomas

“A celebration of African storytelling,” the anthology’s other co-editors are Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, who previously co-edited Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.

Africa Risen

March 12, 2021

Bada Murya, a Fellowship for Northern Nigerian Writers, Opens for Applications

The 6-month fellowship, which “invokes the power of narrative to shift perceptions,” is open to writers of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama.

Creative Africa

January 21, 2022

11 Magazines Currently Open for Submissions

Including The Threepenny Review, A Public Space, Isele, and Lolwe.

Emmanuel Esomnofu

December 23, 2021

Enter for the 2022 AKO Caine Prize

The £10,000 award went to Ethiopia’s Meron Hadero in 2021.

The AKO Caine Prize

December 23, 2021

Submit to Bakwa’s “Woman Issue,” Guest-edited by Anwuli Ojogwu

Paula Willie-Okafor

October 15, 2021

Submit to World Literature Today’s “New African Voices” Portfolio

It is guest-edited by Mahtem Shiferraw.

Open Country Mag

October 7, 2021

Bookshop.org Launches New Futures, an Initiative for Underrepresented Communities

Partnering with The Booksellers Association, Gardners, and The Bookseller, the initiative will see booksellers from Black and marginalized groups open their own indie bookshops.

Midas PR

September 17, 2021

A Long House Announces the Rajat Neogy Editorial Fellowship

The fellowship is named after Rajat Neogy, the Ugandan writer and editor who founded Transition Magazine at age 22.

A Long House

August 18, 2021

Submissions Open for 2021 SprinNG Women Authors Prize

The award for female Nigerian authors “invests N200,000 in purchasing, distributing, and marketing print copies of their books.”

SprinNG

August 9, 2021

Dgëku, a Literary Magazine for Queer Africans, Calls for Submissions

The new publication pays $150 for prose pieces of 3,000 words or more, $30 for an individual poem, and $100 maximum for a suite of poems.

Dgëku Magazine

August 5, 2021

7 Literary Magazines Accepting Submissions in August

Ernest Ogunyemi

July 2, 2021

Submit Your Unagented Manuscript to Soft Skull Press

“We want our books to offer a refuge from, an alternative to, and an argument against mainstream culture and mainstream thinking,” says the independent publisher.