In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in July 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).
- À l’est Author residency – Deadline: July 8
- Illino Writing Residency Program – Deadline: July 20, 2024
- Granum Foundation Prizes – Deadline: August 1
- LOATAD Black Atlantic Residency II – Deadline: August 18
- Morland African Writing Scholarships – Deadline: September 20
- British Council Festival Connect Fund – Deadline: Not indicated
- Shenandoah Emerging Editor Fellowship – Deadline: Not indicated
Opportunity hubs
Literary magazines/journals/anthologies/manuscripts
- Mulberry Literary – Deadline: July 15
- Uncanny Magazine – Deadline: July 19
- Bleating Thing Magazine – Deadline: July 31
- Psaltery & Lyre – Deadline: July 31
- The Temz Review – Deadline: July 31
- Ubwali – Deadline: July 31
- Verdant – Deadline: July 31
- Chestnut Review – Deadline: August 1
- West Trade Review – Deadline: August 1
- Cotton Xenomorph – Deadline: August 1.
- Huston/Wright Foundation Writing Revolution – Deadline: August 2
- Lọúnlọún Magazine (Genres: Historical Fiction set in Africa) – Deadline: August 25
- Agbowó December 2024 | Unthemed Issue – August 30
- PREE 13 – Deadline: August 31
- The Shore – Deadline: September 1
- Black Warrior Review – Deadline: September 2
- The Caribbean Writer – Deadline: December 31
- Plough Shares – Deadline: January 15, 2024.
- 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
- Éditions Akoma Mba – Deadline: July 16
- Sarabande Books – Deadline: July 31
- Purple Shelves – Deadline: August 20
- Split/Lip Press – Deadline: September 2
- 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
- Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes (Jury: Wayétu Moore, Esmé Weijun Wang, Leila Mottley) – Deadline: July 1
- Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Short Story Contest – Deadline: July 1
- Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2024 – Deadline: July 1
- Sule/SEVHAGE Prize for African Literary Criticism 2024 – Deadline: July 21
- K & L Fiction Prize 2024 – Deadline: July 21
- The Sewanee Review – Deadline: July 31
- Dublin Literary Award 2025 – Deadline: July 31
- The T. S. Eliot Prize 2024– Deadline: July 31
- Read Aloud Across Borders: Arabic Flash Fiction Contest 2024 – Deadline: July 31
- Prix des 5 continents de la Francophonie – Deadline: July 31
- eKitabu Digital Essay Competition 2024 (Kenyan students) – Deadline: July 31
- The 2024 Kofi Awoonor Poetry Prize – Deadline: August 8
- Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan le pont de l’harmattan – Deadline: August 30
- Sheikh Zayed Book Award – Deadline: September 1
- 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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