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April 2024 Deadlines
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Deadline:April 29th, 2024
Kaba Fest writing workshop
Join the exclusive writing workshop this May at the Kaduna Books and arts festival on the 1st of May 2024.
Join this workshop and learn how to connect , engage and grow a community of book influencers. Apply on the website here KABA FEST WRITING WORKSHOP
- 11 and Under: Up to 500 words | Prize: £100, along with £150 book tokens for the winner’s school
- 12-15 years: 1,000 – 2,000 words | Prize: £250, plus £150 book tokens for the winner’s school
- 16-21 years: 1,500 – 3,000 words | Prize: £1,000
British Council International Collaboration Grants 2024
Deadline: 30th April, 2024
The British Council International Collaboration Grants, now open for the second round, offer a £1 million funding pool to foster cultural collaborations between UK and global artists, professionals, and organizations. These grants aim to stimulate new bilateral and multilateral partnerships, supporting creative projects and innovative collaborations. Applications must showcase genuine international cooperation, providing tangible benefits to UK and international participants. Projects can explore any theme, with emphasis on diversity, inclusion, and environmental sustainability. Grants range from £25,000 to £75,000. For more information on how to apply.
May 2024 Deadlines
CALL FOR SUBMISSION
Deadline: May 1st, 2024
To celebrate Wole Soyinka the literary Legend at 90, Onyeka Nwelue has opened entries for all writers and poets to submit poems, non-fiction and eulogies not more than 700 words. These can be submited to: Onyekanwelue@kabalnmundagency.com.Other prizes to be won.
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Quramo writers prize
Deadline: 31st May 2024.
Get Your Manuscripts Into Shape, it is another opportunity to make your literary and publishing dreams come true. Quramo Publishing Ltd. (QPL) is officially accepting entries for the 8th edition of its annual Quramo Writers’ Prize (QWP) from Friday, 1 March 2024.
Quramo Writers Prize 2024 is inviting unpublished Nigerian and African writers to submit a fiction prose manuscript. The Prize is awarded to a fiction prose manuscript by an African writer published in English, whether they reside in Africa or elsewhere. Each entry must be an original, unpublished work.
Find more information here: Quramo writing Prize
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Open Arts Manuscript Publishing Deal
Deadline: May 31, 2024
Open Arts invites women writers from Northern Nigeria to submit their fiction or nonfiction manuscripts in English or Hausa for a publishing deal.
Selected women writers from Northern Nigeria will be paid a token for their manuscripts, benefit from intensive workshops, mentorship programmes, networking opportunities, and literary events, and will have their books published in either English or Hausa to a global audience.
For more information about submission please visit OPEN ARTS MANUSCRIPT PUBLISHING DEAL
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Alexander Nderitu Prize for World LiteratureDeadline: 31st May 2024
The Alexander Nderitu Prize for World Literature is open for submissions until May 31, 2024. Theme: “Peace.” Eligible for citizens worldwide above 18. Short story, 3000-5000 words, English/Kiswahili. No entry fee. Submission via email (submissions@theafricangriot.com), with cover letter containing author’s legal name, age, nationality, one-paragraph bio, and contact details. For more information visit the African Griot here:
June 2024 Deadlines
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Grist Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
Deadline: June 24th,2023
Grist is excited to open submissions for the fourth year of our Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors short story contest.
Imagine 2200 celebrates stories that envision the next decades to centuries of equitable climate progress, imagining futures of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope. We are looking for stories that are rooted in creative climate solutions and community-centered resilience, showing what can happen as solutions take root, and stories that offer gripping plots with rich characters and settings, making that future come alive.
Your submission must be an original fictional story of between 2,500 and 5,000 words that has not been previously published.
Visit the website GRIST SUBMISSION and follow the guidelines
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Submit Essays and Creative Nonfiction on the EndSARS Protest
Deadline: 30th June, 2024
Chibueze Darlington Anuonye in collaboration with Brittle Paper, seeks essays and creative nonfiction on Nigeria’s EndSARS protest, themed “Who Gave the Order: The History of a People’s Movement.” Deadline: June 30. Submissions: chibuezedarlington@yahoo.com. Word count: 2,500-5,000. Payment: $100. Selected pieces published on Brittle Paper on October 10, 2024. Click here for more information on how to submit.