Deadline: 1 February 2017 We’re thrilled to announce the third edition of Close Approximations, Asymptote’s international translation contest. Open to emerging translators, this contest invites translations in two genres: fiction and poetry. The winner and two runners-up of each category...
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Deadline: 1 January 2017 FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about people of the African diaspora. The magazine is calling for submissions for its Summer 2017 issue, which is themed “Spilling Tea” (the theme...
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Selling LipService by PEN SA member Tammy Baikie won the 2015/16 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award: In Frith’s consumerist world, everyone has a stroke around the age of 18. After this coming of haemhorr-age, writing and speaking is only possible if...
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Deadline: Submissions will be open from 1 February to 28 February 2017 PEN SA member Nick Mulgrew’s poetry publishing press uHlanga is having an open submissions period for chapbooks and collections of poetry from South Africa poets or poets living...
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Jacana Media has announced the shortlist for the inaugural Gerald Kraak Award. PEN SA member Sisonke Msimang was the chair of the judging panel, who chose the shortlist of written and photographic pieces on the topics of gender, human rights...
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