In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in March 2023. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), journals, prizes, and publishers.
Literary magazines/journals/Anthologies
Globally Rooted
Submissions now open for Issue 02 of the Globally Rooted Magazine! Theme: Lifestyle Philosophies Share your stories, personal essays, poetry and photo essays about different ways of living around the world.
Deadline: March 22
Details: Click here.
‘Our Stories Redefined’ 2023 Anthology Call for Submissions
Our Stories Redefined Anthology for African Writing is a vehicle for new-age African writers to tell their stories to a generation that understands them.
In its third edition, the anthology will be published by Mystery Books, an imprint of Mystery Publishers. It will be distributed worldwide via online retail bookstores and bookstores in Kenya and available from academic institutions and libraries.
Deadline: April 15
Details: Click here.
Decolonial Passage
Decolonial Passage presents each distinct piece of writing as a passage worthy of readers’ attention in which writers create texts to articulate a variety of themata affecting the human condition including, but not limited to authenticity, liberty, alienation, dignity, community, and boundless love. Decolonial Passage publishes writing from emerging and established writers who use language and form in innovative ways.
Deadline: Not indicated
Information: Click here.
Writers Space Africa magazine
Writers Space Africa magazine is accepting poems, children’s literature, creative nonfiction, flash fiction and short stories for its 77th edition (May 2023 Edition). The theme for this edition is Good Green Earth.
Deadline: March 15
Details: Click here.
Pepper Coast Lit
Pepper Coast Lit is a literary magazine from the coast of Liberia that seeks to give attention to brave voices. The newest edition, guest edited by Jakky Bankong-Obi and Akpa Arinzechukwu, seeks submissions for both poetry and fiction.
Deadline: April 1
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Guernica
Guernica publishes poetry, essays, reportage/journalism, criticism, and fiction, and we offer honoraria of $50 for poetry, $100 for original essays, and $150 for original fiction and for reportage/journalism.
Deadline: Not indicated
Details: Click here.
Publishers
Narrative Landscape
The month opens with some good news: our March submissions window is now open for fiction manuscripts!
Have you completed a fiction manuscript and you are thinking of publishing it? Do you know someone who is seeking a publisher for their work of fiction?
Deadline: March 31
Details: On above image.
Prizes
Gambia Prize for Literature 2023
Established in 2022, the Gambia Prize for Literature is the biggest literary award in Gambia and one of the youngest literary awards in the world. This annual Gambian literary award honors Gambian authors with scholarly erudition and is sponsored by Alliance Francaise Banjul and The French Institute of Senegal.
Deadline: June 2023
Details: Click here.
Etel Adnan Poetry Prize
Every year the University of Arkansas Press accepts submissions for the Etel Adnan Poetry Series and awards the $1,000 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize to a first or second book of poetry, in English, by a writer of Arab heritage. Since its inception in 2015 the series has sought to celebrate and foster the writings and writers that make up the vibrant and diverse Arab American community, and the University of Arkansas Press has long been committed to publishing diverse kinds of poetry by a diversity of poets. The series editors are Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah, and the prize is named in honor of the world-renowned poet, novelist, essayist, and artist Etel Adnan.
Deadline: April 15
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The Nigeria Prizes
Nigeria LNG Limited is the proud sponsor of three of the biggest and most prestigious prizes in Africa for science, literature, and literary criticism: The Nigeria Prize for Science and The Nigeria Prize for Literature, each worth USD100,000 in award money, and The Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism with a N1 million cash reward.
Deadline: March 21
Details: Click here.
The Diverse Book Awards 2023
The Diverse Book Awards was created by award-winning children’s and YA author Abiola Bello and award winning publicist Helen Lewis, founders of The Author School in 2019.
Deadline: May 31
Details: Click here.
Bristol Short Story Prize 2023
The Prize is open to both published and unpublished writers around the world. 20 stories will be shortlisted and published in Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 16. The winner and two runners up will be selected from the shortlist and announced at an awards ceremony in October 2023. Prizes awarded will be as follows: First prize: £1,000 Second prize: £500 Third prize: £250
Deadline: April 26
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The James Currey Prize for African Literature
The James Currey Prize for African Literature is an annual award for the best-unpublished work of fiction written in English by any writer, set in Africa or on Africans in Africa or in Diaspora.
Deadline: April 1, 2023
Details: Click here.
