Call for Submissions – Queer Intersections (Rainbow Literature Festival and Yoda Press)
Deadline: 15 September 2026 The Rainbow Literature Festival and Yoda Press invite submissions for the first edition of Queer Intersections, an annual anthology series that seeks to bring together non-fiction writings exploring queerness and its intersections with other identities and lived realities. The series aims to create greater space for diverse voices from queer and […]
Call for Applications – Open Arts Prize for Fiction (Open Arts Publishing)
Deadline: 31 July 2026, 11:59 PM (WAT) Open Arts Publishing is a boutique press dedicated to publishing bold literary and cultural work by marginalised writers whose voices reshape how we understand identity, power, and creativity. The Open Arts prize is an annual award given to a single work of fiction from a Black writer. The […]
Call for Applications – Sawaba Journal Volume 1 Issue 1 (2026) (Liberation Alliance)
Deadline: 15 July 2026 The Sawaba Journal is a multidisciplinary journal that houses feminist thought and decolonial praxis. It is a platform for the creation, resourcing, and dissemination of anti-colonial feminist praxis, histories and cartographies of resistance, archival practice, feminist embodied practice, and African feminist knowledge, memories and world-building by scholars, activists, cultural practitioners, knowledge […]
Open Call For Writers – Give Them Their Flowers (Obodo Nigeria)
Deadline: 07 June 2026 Give Them Their Flowers is a continent-wide cultural and storytelling campaign centering those whose lives exist beyond colonial frameworks of identity. This initiative is a deliberate act of gratitude and public recognition for those who sustain the fabric of our communities. The campaign recognizes that mental health is inseparable from social […]
Call for Submissions – Care in Crisis: why we need collective care in frontline responses to permacrisis
Deadline:12 January 2026 The Urgent Action Sister Funds consortium is inviting thought-provoking and solutions-oriented contributions focusing on ‘collective care in permacrisis’, for a proposal for an in-depth series with the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR). We are seeking short pieces (no more than 2000 words) from a range of authors, including activists, academics, philanthropists, cultural workers (such as traditional […]