April 2023

Ahoy Comics seeks submissions of short fiction for readers of mature content. At Ahoy, they believe their sacred duty is to find new voices and let them scream at the world. Thus, each Ahoy Comics magazine will include at least one piece of short fiction or social commentary. They seek smart, weird, funny articles or […]

Tampered Press calls on writers and visual artists to submit to its 8th edition.  Tampered Press is a literary and arts journal that publishes Africans and people of African descent. While blackness has become more noticeable now than in the past, and more space is gradually being created at the table black as an identity […]

The Flute is calling for submissions of poems and pictures around Africa.  According to one of the editors, Olajide Salawu, The Flute wants to tell stories of the margin, the ignored tales of the African cities.  In the words of Nigerian poet, Odia Ofeimum, “A city is like a poem. You enter it and you enter […]

The James Currey Prize for African Literature is an annual award for the best-unpublished work of fiction written in English by any writer, set in Africa or on Africans in Africa or in Diaspora. It was established in 2020 by Nigerian writer, filmmaker and publisher of Hattus Books, Onyeka Nwelue, in honour of James Currey, the leading publisher […]

  The Fanstory Dear God Writing Contest requires you to write to God expressing your most pressing concerns and/or questions believing with all your heart and soul, that He will receive, read and answer you. This can be a letter or part of a larger story as long as the topic is followed. The Dear God […]

Fanstory is hosting a horror or thriller story writing contest. They want writers to put the readers on edge or terrorize them. Make them shiver as they read your horror short story. The deadline for this Fanstory horror writing contest is July 15th, 2023.   Eligibility for the Fanstory Horror Writing Contest There is no […]

The forge literary magazine is holding a paid flash fiction and a free flash nonfiction competitions in 2023.   Eligibility for the Forge Literary Magazine Competitions The entry fee is $5 for a flash prose under 1,000 words. The forge Literary Magazine strongly believe in removing barriers to submission. If you are a low-income writer and the […]