Callouts

Opportunities for writers and poets for February 2024.

In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in February 2024. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), journals, and prizes. If you have any callouts, please share.

Education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies).

  • Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant 2024

Deadline: April 23
Details: Click here.

  • 1949 Résidence d’Ecriture (Cote D’Ivoire)

Deadline: February 24
Details: Click here.

  • The Silvers Grants for Work in Progress 2024

Deadline: March 31
Details: Click here.

  • Ukuthula: Invoking Silence. Inviting women writers and activists (South Africa)

Deadline: February 7
Details: Click here.

  • COURAGE to WRITE and LANDO Grants for Writers

Deadline: February 5
Details: Click here.

  • Royal Society of Literature International Writers Programme

Deadline: March 3
Information: Click here.

Literary magazines/journals/anthologies/manuscript

  • Lolwe

Lolwe is accepting submissions for Issue 9 throughout February. The issue will be guest-edited by Ya Mallen Jagne (The Gambia), Karen Nadu Ologoudou (Benin), and Tamanda Kanjaye (Malawi).

Deadline: February 29
Information: Click here.

  • 20.35 Africa Anthology Series: Volume 7

We are glad to announce our call for submissions for the seventh volume. Thea Matthews and Kwame Opoku-Duku will guest edit the anthology and work alongside the 20.35 Africa editors: Ebenezer Agu, I.S. Jones, and Precious Okpechi.

Deadline: March 22
Information: Click here.

  • Transition

Deadline: July 1
Information: Click here.

  • The Lagos Review Essay Series

Deadline: Not indicated
Information: Click here.

  • Short.Sharp.Stories anthology

Deadline: February 28
Information: Click here.

  • The Stripes Magazine

Deadline: March 30
Information: Click here.

  • Chestnut Review

Deadline: March 33
Information: Click here.

  • The Black Fork Review

Deadline: March 1
Information: Click here.

  • Libretto Magazine

Deadline: March 31
Information: Click here.

  • Soma Nami Press Anthology

Deadline: March 15
Information: Click here.

  • Isele Magazine

Deadline: February 29
Information: Click here.

  • Doek Lit Mag

Deadline: February 29
Information: Click here.

  • Iron Horse Literary Review

Deadline: March 15
Information: Click here.

  • Jet Fuel Review

Deadline: March 15
Information: Click here.

  • So To Speak Journal

Deadline: March 15
Information: Click here.

  • Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine

Deadline: February 15
Information: Click here.

  • Fahmidan Journal

Deadline: March 15
Information: Click here.

  • Loun Loun Journal

Deadline: February 23
Details: Click here.

  • Split Lip Magazine

Deadline: Not indicated
Details: Click here.

  • Sho Poetry Journal

Deadline: March 31
Details: Click here.

  • New Contrast 204

Deadline: Not indicated
Details: Click here.

  • Àló Lit Magazine

Deadline: February 28
Details: Click here.

  • Ibua Manuscript Project

Deadline: February 16
Information: Click here.

  • The Hive: opportunities for South African Writers

Deadline: Ongoing
Details: Click here 

  • Chilli Hub

Deadline: None (Many opportunities)
Details: Click here

  • Write Jobs

Deadline: None (Many opportunities)
Details: Click here.

  • Alien Magazine

Deadline: Not indicated
Details: Click here.

  • Decolonial Passage

Decolonial Passage presents each distinct piece of writing as a passage worthy of readers’ attention in which writers create texts to articulate a variety of themata affecting the human condition including, but not limited to authenticity, liberty, alienation, dignity, community, and boundless love. Decolonial Passage publishes writing from emerging and established writers who use language and form in innovative ways.

Deadline: Not indicated
Information: Click here.

Publishers

  • Palimpsest Press

Deadline: March 1
Information: Click here.

  • Driftwood Press

Deadline: Not indicated
Information: Click here.

  • Masobe Books

Deadline: March 31
Information: Click here.

  • Jacarada

Deadline: February 26
Information: Click here.

  • Driftwood Press (Novella, poetry collection)

Deadline: March 15
Information: Click here.

  • Screen Door Press

Deadline: March 15
Information: Click here.

  • Dsac Publishing Hub (South Africa)

Deadline: Not indicated
Information: Click here.

  • Jacana Imprint: Mother

Deadline: Not indicated
Information: Click here.

Prizes

  • Prêmio Bunkyo de Literatura 2024

Deadline: June 28
Details: Click here.

  • Forward Prizes for Poetry

Deadline: March 4
Details: Click here.

  • Nigerian Prize for Literature 2024

Deadline: April 2
Details: Click here.

  • Prix Littéraire Komla Messan Nubukpo

Deadline: April 29
Details: Click here.

  • University of Johannesburg UJ Prize for South African Writing

Deadline: February 29
Details: Click here.

  • Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2024

Deadline: July 1
Information: Click here.

  • Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2024

Deadline: March 1
Details: Click here.

  • Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize

Deadline: February 16
Information: Click here.

  • The Diverse Book Awards (UK)

Deadline: March 27
Information: Click here.

  • Abu Sherif II Poetry Prize (Liberia only)

Deadline: March 28
Information: Click here.

  • Caine Prize for African Writing

Deadline: March 31
Information: Click here.

  • IPA Prix Voltaire 2024

Deadline: March 22
Information: Click here.

  • Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction 2024 ($50 entry fee)

Deadline: April 30
Information: Click here.

  • Claire Harris Poetry Prize

Deadline: March 31 
Information: Click here.

  • Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize

Deadline: February 1
Information: Click here.

  • Cassava Republic’s Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize

Deadline: March 31
Information: Click here.


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