In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in August 2024. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), opportunity hubs, journals, and prizes. If you have any callouts, please share in the comments.
Education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies).
- African Writers Trust Manuscript Assessment Programme – August 5
- LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency II – Deadline: August 18
- Achmat Dangor Literary Prize – Deadline: September 15, 2024
- Morland African Writing Scholarships – Deadline: September 20
- British Council Festival Connect Fund – Deadline: Not indicated
- Shenandoah Emerging Editor Fellowship – Deadline: Not indicated
Opportunity hubs
- Chilli Hub
- The Hive: opportunities for South African Writers
- The Jakes Gerwel Foundation – Residencies
- Studio Styles
- Word box
- Write Jobs
Literary magazines/journals/anthologies/manuscripts
- Orange Blossom Review – Deadline: August 15
- Black Warrior Review – Deadline: August 16
- Lọúnlọún Magazine (Genres: Historical Fiction set in Africa) – Deadline: August 25
- Jahazi Journal – Deadline: August 26
- Geist Magazine – Deadline: August 26
- Agbowó December 2024 | Unthemed Issue – August 30
- PREE 13 – Deadline: August 31
- Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal – Deadline: August 31
- HerStry – Deadline: August 31
- Midnight and Indigo – Deadline: September 1
- The Shore – Deadline: September 1
- Uncanny Magazine – Deadline: September 2
- Black Warrior Review – Deadline: September 2
- Akéwì Magazine – Deadline: September 5
- Michigan Quarterly Review – Deadline: November 1
- The Caribbean Writer – Deadline: December 31
- Plough Shares – Deadline: January 15, 2024.
- Apex Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated
- Brittle Paper – Deadline: Not indicated
- Gone Lawn – Deadline:
- Pepper Coast Lit – Deadline: Not indicated
- The Dodge – Deadline: Not indicated
- Decolonial Passage – Deadline: Not indicated
- Efiko Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated.
- RIC Journal – Deadline: Not indicated.
- The Lagos Review Essay Series – Deadline: Not indicated
- New Contrast – Deadline: Not indicated
- Afapinen – Deadline: Not indicated
- TriQuarterly – Deadline: Not indicated
- Alien Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated
Publishers
- Feminist Press – Deadline: August 20
- Purple Shelves – Deadline: August 20
- Split/Lip Press – Deadline: September 2
- Shuter & Shooter Publishers – Deadline: October 15
- Blue Press – Deadline: Not indicated
- Driftwood Press – Deadline: Not indicated
- Dsac Publishing Hub (South Africa) – Deadline: Not indicated
- Jacana Imprint: Mother – Deadline: Not indicated
Prizes and competitions
- The 2024 Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize – Deadline: August 8
- Indiana Review Prize – Deadline: August 15
- The K & L Prize for Fiction (open to Africans only) – Deadline: August 29
- The Eugenia Abu/SEVHAGE International Prize for Creative Non-Fiction (open to all writers worldwide) – Deadline: August 29
- The E. E. Sule/SEVHAGE Prize for African Literary Criticism (open to Africans alone) – Deadline: August 29
- Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan le pont de l’harmattan – Deadline: August 30
- Sheikh Zayed Book Award – Deadline: September 1
- Abena Korantemaa Oral History Prize 2024 – Deadline: September 6
- Prix Littéraire FETKANN! Maryse Condé – Deadline: September 30
- Global China-Africa Writing Competition – Deadline: October 1
- Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature – Deadline: November 30, 2024
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