In our continuing series, we share opportunities for those who wish to submit work be it poetry, prose, or other related arts in May 2024. These callouts are divided into education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies), opportunity hubs, journals, and prizes. If you have any callouts, please share in the comments.
Education (MFAs, Fellowships, residencies).
- Voodoonauts Fellowship Retreat 2024: Resistance, Solidarity, & Liberation – Deadline: May 1
- Paris Writers Residency 2024 – Deadline: May 1
- Creative Grant for People of Colour (UK) – Deadline: May 7
- UnSerious Collective Fellowship – Deadline: May 31
- Centre for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellowships – Deadline: May 31
- Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship – Deadline: June 1
- Penguin Books (UK) #WriteNow – Deadline: June 16
- Granum Foundation Prizes – Deadline: August 1
- British Council Festival Connect Fund – Deadline: Not indicated
- Shenandoah Emerging Editor Fellowship – Deadline: Not indicated
Opportunity hubs
Literary magazines/journals/anthologies/manuscripts
- Obsidian at 50: Activating the Archive – Deadline: May 2
- Khōréō – Deadline: May 15
- Mukana Anthology of African Writing 2024 – Deadline: May 16
- The Africa Migration Report: An Anthology of Poems – Deadline: May 25
- Ubwali Literary Magazine – Deadline: May 31
- Open Arts Manuscript Publishing Deal (Northern Nigeria)– Deadline: May 31
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- The Journal – Deadline: June 2
- Fahmidan Journal – Deadline: June 15
- Brittle Paper End SARS anthology – Deadline: June 30
- Chestnut Review – Deadline: June 30.
- Transition – Deadline: July 1
- Mizna: The Futurities Issue – Deadline: June 6
- West Trade Review – Deadline: August
- The Caribbean Writer – Deadline: December 31
- Pepper Coast Lit – Deadline: Not indicated
- The Dodge – Deadline: Not indicated
- Decolonial Passage – Deadline: Not indicated
- Efiko Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated.
- RIC Journal – Deadline: Not indicated.
- The Lagos Review Essay Series – Deadline: Not indicated
- Split Lip Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated.
- New Contrast – Deadline: Not indicated
- Afapinen – Deadline: Not indicated
- TriQuarterly – Deadline: Not indicated
- Alien Magazine – Deadline: Not indicated
Publishers
- Broken Sleep Books (poetry)– Deadline: May 31
- Flame Tree Fiction – Deadline: June 23
- Two Lines Press: Translated African Literature – Deadline: June 30
- Blue Press – Deadline: Not indicated
- Driftwood Press – Deadline: Not indicated
- Dsac Publishing Hub (South Africa) – Deadline: Not indicated
- Jacana Imprint: Mother – Deadline: Not indicated
Prizes and competitions
- Polari Book Prizes (UK) – Deadline: May 6
- Prémio Literário José Saramago – Deadline: May 15
- “Reflections on Nature” Literary Contest – Deadline: May 15
- Prémio Literário Fernando Leite Couto – Deadline: May 16
- Craft 2024 Short Fiction Prize (Judge: Deesha Philyaw, $20 entry fee) – Deadline: May 19
- Ink Book Prize (Self Published Literature Prize) – Deadline: May 31
- Quramo Writers Prize 2024 – Deadline: June 30.
- Imagine 2200: Write the future – Deadline: June 24
- Prêmio Bunkyo de Literatura 2024 – Deadline: June 28
- Prix Ivoire de littérature africaine (et caribéenne) 2024 – Deadline: June 30
- Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize – Deadline: June 30
- Prix Ivoire pour la Littérature Africaine d’Expression Francophone 2024 – Deadline: June 30
- Bellevue Literary Review Literary Prizes (Jury: Wayétu Moore, Esmé Weijun Wang, Leila Mottley) – Deadline: July 1
- Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Short Story Contest – Deadline: July 9
- Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize 2024 – Deadline: July 1
- Prix des 5 continents de la Francophonie – Deadline: July 31
- eKitabu Digital Essay Competition 2024 (Kenyan students) – Deadline: July 31
- Prix Littéraire FETKANN! Maryse Condé – Deadline: September 30
- Global China-Africa Writing Competition – Deadline: October 1
