Opportunities for Creatives.
Prizes, fellowships and open calls for writers and artists, shared in May 2024.
Deadline: 1 June 2024
Global Africa Translation Fellowship
Deadline: 30 June 2024
PRIMS International Rolling Submissions. Annual fiction, poetry, short forms and creative non-fiction contests
Deadline: 30 June 2024
Belize International Film Festival
Deadline: 31 May 2024
Cassava Republic Press: African Women Non-fiction Writing Workshop
Deadline: 31 May 2024
Poetry. 1st Prize £5,000 Short story. 1st Prize £5,000 Flash Fiction. 1st Prize £1,000 Novel. Winner £1,500 plus package
Deadline: 1 June 2024
Poda-Poda Stories: Call for fiction, non-fiction, poetry and book reviews
Deadline: 30 June 2024
Pitch to Overland Literary Journal. $150 for published online pieces.
Deadline: 30 June 2024
Cassava Republic Manuscript Prize, $20,000 Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize dedicated to exceptional works by Black women (cis, trans and genderqueer)
Deadline: 30 June 2024
Film Africa: Call for Submissions
Deadline: 30 June 2024
Palette Poetry: Submissions for our Featured Poetry category are open year-round to poets at any stage of their careers $50 per poem, up to $150.
Deadline: 1 July 2024
2024 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Price
Deadline: 1 July 2024
Sangam House Writing Residency
Deadline: 31 July 2024
Foyle Young Poets Award, The top 15 poets receive a mentoring package with opportunities to receive support and feedback on their writing
Deadline: 30 June 2024
PRISM International: Prose and Poetry Submission
Deadline: 31 December 2024
The Caribbean Writer: Possibilities – Beyond Traditional, Inside of Courage.
Deadline: 1 June 2024
The Flame Tree Writer’s Project: Submissions are now open to a Writers’ Workshop in Abuja hosted by the Flame Tree Writers’ Project. If you are an emerging writer from Northern Nigeria, we recommend you apply.
Deadline: 31 October 2024
Miles Morland Foundation: Grants of 18,000 pounds (over 12 months for emerging fiction writers) and 27,000 (over 18 months for emerging non-fiction writers)
Deadline: September 15 and December 1
The African Poetry Book Fund: The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry is awarded annually to an African poet who has not yet published a collection of poetry. The winner receives USD $1000 and book publication through the University of Nebraska Press and Amalion in Senegal.