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Call for Submissions:

My Africa, My City

deadline: 30th September 2016 

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Afridiaspora, a pan-African literary webzine focused on
showcasing beautiful African stories written by African
writers at home and in the diaspora is pleased to
announce a call for submission of our maiden edition
of a quarterly anthology. We seek to bring together
under an umbrella, amazing works of a particular
theme from different parts of Africa.For our maiden
edition, we have chosen the inexhaustible theme of
‘My Africa, My CITY’.  We seek stories and arts that
showcase the colourful cities of Africa. City could mean
several things. From growing up to striking out as an
adult, from memories of loss and gain witnessed by
high towers and impatient city dwellers to feeling
lonely in a sea of people. WHAT IS YOUR AFRICAN
CITY STORY?We call on both seasoned and upcoming
writers to submit their original unpublished work
based on the theme ‘My Africa, My City’. Please note
that you do not have to title your work My Africa, My
City but your work can however be titled after a
particular city if you so want. This anthology will
feature the following genres: Fiction, Creative
non-fiction, Poetry and Visual Arts.Submission for
this anthology will be received between 16th of
August to 30th of September, 2016. We aim
to publish the anthology as a free downloadable
e-book by November 2016.

Please note that because this is a non-profitable
initiative, we cannot afford to pay our writers.
 

Please follow the submission guidelines below for submitting for this anthology:

  1. Submission for this anthology is from 16th of August to 30th of September 2016
  2. Word count for fiction and non-fiction should not exceed 5000 words. We do not accept book excerpts.
  3. All submissions must be sent to info@afridiaspora.com
  4. Make the subject of your email ‘My Africa, My City Submission’
  5. Your submission should be a Microsoft word attachment. Do not copy your work in the body of the email and we do not accept PDF.
  6. Submit a bio of not more than 100 words written in third person and a profile picture with your work.
  7. Visual art submission should be of high resolution jpeg files and not larger than 5mb. It should also come with a title and the year it was created along with the artist’s bio.
  8. All submission must be previously unpublished and we do not accept simultaneous submission.

 

>via: https://africainwords.com/2016/09/11/call-for-submissions/