Literary website Brittle Paper has announced the shortlists for the inaugural Brittle Paper Literary Awards. PEN SA members Petina Gappah and Sisonke Msimang were shortlisted in the Fiction and Essays / Think Pieces categories respectively. Gappah for her story “A...
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Deadline: 4 July 2017 Prize: “The top three winners will receive $200 each as well as publication in the Mamba Haiku journal.” The 2017 Babishai Haiku Contest is open for submissions. Only African poets resident in Africa, who have not...
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PEN SA Africa Pulse is a weekly round-up of news concerning cases of freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Africa. Egypt’s government can’t crush independent journalism The Egyptian government shut down about 21 websites last week,...
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Deadline: 15 March 2017 Lethe Press is seeking submissions for its 2017 Best Gay Stories anthology. The project will be edited by Joe Okonkwo whose evocative debut novel Jazz Moon we covered in a recent interview. As with past volumes...
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Brittle Paper has shared a call for submissions from The Jeli Story project, a literary platform for innovative storytelling projects by new writers. They are “especially interested in writers who are not well represented in mainstream publishing, particularly black women”....
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