Deadline: 5 July 2019 The Jakes Gerwel Foundation and the Suidoosterfees have joined forces to give young, up-and-coming playwrights a chance to develop their skills through a mentoring programme, as an extension of the festival’s existing Young Stars project. Playwrights who are just...
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Deadline: 30 June 2019 The Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) is accepting applications for its Fifth Writing Semester, which will run from 3 February to 31 May 2020. Fellowships are open to any field of expertise. Previous fellows have...
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Deadline: 7 July 2019 The Goethe-Institut/ Bureau de liaison Ouagadougou is setting up a writer’s residency for young African writers (less than 40 years) in 2019/20 in Burkina Faso. This residency program aims to give a platform for free expression:...
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The Bare Life Review is accepting submissions in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry for publication for their print journal. Founded in 2017, The Bare Life Review is a literary biannual devoted entirely to work by immigrant and refugee authors. We are committed to publishing work exclusively by immigrant and refugee...
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Deadline: 15 June 2019 Cape Town Library Book: Writing my City is an initiative between Cape Town’s public libraries, the City of Cape Town and Open Book Festival, to publish a collection of stories about the Mother City, as told from...
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