In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work in June 2025, be it poetry, prose, or other related arts. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), opportunity hubs, journals, and prizes. Please do us a favour and mention to whoever you applied to that you got the opportunity from this page, as it greatly helps us. If you have any callouts, please share in the comments.
Education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies).
- African Writers Trust Writers-in-Residency Programme – Deadline: July 21
- Simon & Schuster UK New Chapter Prize for Authors of Colour – Deadline: July 31
Opportunity hubs
- Chilli Hub
- Pro Helvetia Johannesburg – Residencies
- The Jakes Gerwel Foundation – Residencies
- The Hive: Opportunities for South African Writers
- Studio Styles
- Timi Sanni
- That Book Chikka
Literary magazines/journals/anthologies/manuscripts
- Nsemia Publishers Anthology callout – Deadline: June 30
- Isele Magazine (theme: Rituals) – Deadline: June 30
- Planet Black Joy – Deadline: June 15 – July 31
- Sauúti Terrors: The Dark Side anthology – Deadline: July 1
- Akpata Magazine – Deadline: July 1
- Herlore Magazine (theme inheritance) – Deadline: July 8
- Tender Photos – Deadline: July 15
- Doek – Deadline: September 30
- Obsidian – Deadline: October 15
- Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series – Deadline: Not indicated.
- Republic Journal – Deadline: Not indicated.
- Lolwe – Deadline: All year round
- Nenta Literary Journal (only Ghanaian writers) – Deadline: All year round
- Alkebulan Art – Deadline: All year round
- The Hooghly Review – Deadline: All year round
- Fahmidan Journal – Deadline: All year round
- Split The Lip – Deadline: Not indicated.
- WILDNESS. A Literary Journal – Deadline: Not indicated.
- Wensum – Deadline: Not indicated.
- Afro Literary Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated
- Ojuju Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated
- The Weganda Review – Deadline: Not indicated
- Apex Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated
- Brittle Paper – Deadline: Not indicated
- Gone Lawn – Deadline:
- 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
- Afapinen – Deadline: Not indicated
- TriQuarterly – Deadline: Not indicated
- Alien Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated
Publishers
- Parresia Publishers – Deadline: June 30
- Love Africa Press – Deadline: Not indicated
- Driftwood Press – Deadline: Not indicated
Prizes and competitions
- 4thWrite Short Story Prize (for UK Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic writers) – Deadline: June 8
- Prix Voix d’Afriques 2025 – 2026 – Deadline: June 18
- Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award – Deadline: June 30
- Narratives Against Poverty in Africa Writing Literary Prize 2025 – Deadline: June 30
- Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2025 – Deadline: June 30
- Prix Ibn Khaldoun – Léopold Sédar Senghor – Deadline: June 30
- Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Prizes – Deadline: July 1
- The Novelry’s The Next Big Story – Deadline: July 31
- TS Eliot Prize for Poetry – Deadline: July 31
- Carol Shields Prize for Fiction 2026 (Canada) – Deadline: August 7
- Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2026 – Deadline: September 1
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