Opportunities for writers and poets for September 2024.

In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in September 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).

• University of Johannesburg (UJ) Artists In Residence Programme – Deadline: September 11, 2024
• Achmat Dangor Literary Prize – Deadline: September 15, 2024
• Morland African Writing Scholarships – Deadline: September 20, 2024
• African Writers Trust short course – writing craft, editing process, business of publishing (paid) – Deadline: September 23, 2024
• Cullman Center Fellowship 2025-2026 – Deadline: September 27, 2024.
• British Council Festival Connect Fund – Deadline: Not indicated
• Shenandoah Emerging Editor Fellowship – Deadline: Not indicated

Opportunity hubs

• Chilli Hub
• The Jakes Gerwel Foundation – Residencies
• The Hive: opportunities for South African Writers
• Studio Styles
• Timi Sanni
• Word box
• Write Jobs

Literary magazines/journals/anthologies/manuscripts

• Silly Goose Press – Deadline: Opens September 9, 2024
• The Capilano Review – Deadline: September 9 – 23, 2024
• Ake Review – Deadline: September 12
• Doek Literary Magazine – Deadline: September 30
• Kenyon Review – Deadline: September 30, 2024
• The Yale Review – Deadline: September 30, 2024
• Stripes Literary Magazine – Deadline: October 5, 2024
• New Contrast Literary Journal – Deadline: October 15, 2024.
• The Black Fork Review – Deadline: October 15, 2024.
• Pitukena Literary Journal – Deadline: November 1
• Michigan Quarterly Review – Deadline: November 1
• Fourth Genre – Deadline: November 30, 2024
• The Caribbean Writer – Deadline: December 31
• The Southern Review – Deadline: January 1, 2025
• Plough Shares – Deadline: January 15, 2025.
• Chicago Review of Books The Great Lakes Anthology– Deadline: January 31
• Ninth Letter – Deadline: February 28, 2025
• Prairie Schooner – Deadline: May 1, 2025
• WILDNESS. a literary journal – Deadline: Not indicted.
• 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:
• 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

• Narrative Landscape Press – Deadline: September 30, 2024
• Shuter & Shooter Publishers – Deadline: October 15
• Terrapin Books – Deadline: September 18 – October 31
• Graywolf Press – Deadline: November 11 – 15
• Abode Press (poetry) – Deadline: December 1, 2024
• 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

• 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
• Grand Prix Littéraire du Bénin 2024 – Deadline: October 8
• Botswana Literature Awards – Deadline: October 14, 2024
• Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2025 – Deadline: November 2, 2024.
• Tuzo Nyerere (Kiswahili Prize) – Deadline: November 30, 2024
• Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature – Deadline: November 30, 2024
• OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2025 – Deadline: January 3, 2025

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