We welcome submissions from our readers.
Our preference is for new, unpublished work. Our natural constituency
of writers and material are African or Diasporan (please interprete
boldly) but we will publish any writer who writes into the African
Condition (please interprete boldly). We are adventurous in our definition
of Africana, but we will also publish good literature generally.
Please read us before submitting. If you are a
poet, send a long poem or four smaller pieces. Essays, fiction,
memoirs and other prose pieces should be 1,500 to 6000 words. Please
attach a third person biography and a photograph. We aim to acknowledge
submissions. Editorial decisions are usually made within a month.
We actively encourage the submission of literature
in translation. We are keen to publish good writers who are not
particularly familiar to readers in English.
We will not publish hate literature.
We do not currently pay for submissions. This policy
is under constant review..
Please query before sending reviews. We are happy
to receive books for review that may be of interest to our readers.
We are happy to publish event information of interest
to the writing world. We are happy to receive advertising enquiries.
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