Opportunities for writers and poets for March 2024.

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

Education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies).

• Voodoonauts Fellowship Retreat 2024: Resistance, Solidarity, & Liberation – Deadline: May 1
• Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship – Deadline: June 1
• Stedelijk x C& Editorial Fellowship – Deadline: April 8
• The Robert B. Silvers Foundation – Deadline: March 31
• Gothenburg Book Fair Fellowship Program – Deadline: March 19
• Paris Writers Residency 2024 – Deadline: May 1
• SprinNG Writing Fellowship 2024 (Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and South Africa between the ages of 18 and 25 years.)– Deadline: April 25
• British Council Festival Connect Fund – Deadline: Not indicated
• Writing Fellowships at A Public Space 2024 – Deadline: March 31
• Shenandoah Emerging Editor Fellowship – Deadline: Not indicated
• Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant 2024 – Deadline: April 23
• Royal Society of Literature International Writers Programme – Deadline: March 3
• The 2024 Silvers Grants for Work in Progress – Deadline: March 31

Opportunity hubs

• The Hive: opportunities for South African Writers
• Chilli Hub
• Write Jobs
• Studio Styles
• Wordbox (March)

Literary magazines/journals/anthologies/manuscript

• Flame Tree Press – Deadline: April 7
• Fiyah Literary Magazine (Theme: Disability) – Deadline: April 30
• berlin lit – Deadline: April 10
• RIC Journal – Deadline: Not indicated.
• Podcastle: Palestinian Voices – Deadline: April 22
• Tahoma Literary Review – Deadline: April 1
• Afapinen – Deadline: Not indicated
• TriQuarterly – Deadline: Not indicated
• Akéwì Magazine – Deadline: March 31
• Ubwali Literary Magazine – Deadline: March 31
• Carefree Magazine (Black women writers) – Deadline: March 31
• Gutter Magazine – Deadline: March 15
• SICK Magazine – Deadline: March 10
• The Caribbean Writer – Deadline: December 31
• Broken Antler – Deadline: March 31
• 20.35 Africa Anthology Series: Volume 7 – Deadline: March 22
• Will This Be A Problem? – Deadline: April 16
• Transition – Deadline: July 1
• The Lagos Review Essay Series – Deadline: Not indicated
• The Stripes Magazine – Deadline: March 30
• Chestnut Review – Deadline: March 31
• Libretto Magazine – Deadline: March 31
• Soma Nami Press Anthology – Deadline: March 15
• Iron Horse Literary Review – Deadline: March 15
• Jet Fuel Review – Deadline: March 15
• So To Speak Journal – Deadline: March 15
• Fahmidan Journal – Deadline: March 15
• Split Lip Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated.
• Sho Poetry Journal – Deadline: March 31
• New Contrast – Deadline: Not indicated
• Alien Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated
• Decolonial Passage – Deadline: Not indicated

Publishers

• Two Lines Press: Translated African Literature – Deadline: Not indicated
• Blue Press – Deadline:  Not indicated
• Palimpsest Press – Deadline: March 31
• Narrative Landscape – Deadline: March 31
• Driftwood Press – Deadline: Not indicated
• Masobe Books – Deadline: March 31
• Screen Door Press – Deadline: March 15
• Dsac Publishing Hub (South Africa) – Deadline: Not indicated
• Jacana Imprint: Mother – Deadline: Not indicated

Prizes

• Afrocritik Prize for Criticism – Deadline: April 30
• Prix Littéraire FETKANN! Maryse Condé – Deadline: September 30
• Polari Book Prizes (UK) – Deadline: May 6
• Craft 2024 Short Fiction Prize (Judge: Deesha Philyaw, US$20 entry fee) – Deadline: May 19
• Nommo Awards (African Speculative Fiction Society) – Deadline: April 30
• Prix Ivoire de littérature africaine (et caribéenne) 2024 – Deadline: June 30
• Elegant Award for New Writers – Deadline: March 31
• Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes (Jury: Wayétu Moore, Esmé Weijun Wang, Leila Mottley) – Deadline: July 1
• Prémio Literário Carlos Morgado 2024 – Deadline: April 23
• Sunday Times Literary Prize 2024 – Deadline: March 18
• The Hope Prize – Deadline: March 22
• Prémio Kotter de Literatura – Deadline: April 5
• Nigerian Prize for Literature 2024 – Deadline: April 2
• Prêmio Bunkyo de Literatura 2024 – Deadline: June 28
• Forward Prizes for Poetry – Deadline: March 4
• Prix Littéraire Komla Messan Nubukpo – Deadline: April 29
• The 2023 Abebi Award in Afro-Nonfiction – Deadline: April 2
• Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2024 – Deadline: July 1
• The Diverse Book Awards (UK) – Deadline: March 27
• Abu Sherif II Poetry Prize (Liberia only) – Deadline: March 28
• Caine Prize for African Writing – Deadline: March 31
• IPA Prix Voltaire 2024 – Deadline: March 22
• Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction 2024 ($50 entry fee) – Deadline: April 30
• Claire Harris Poetry Prize – Deadline: March 31 
• Cassava Republic’s Black Women’s Non-fiction Manuscript Prize – Deadline: March 31

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