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Alongside our monthly round-up of ‘other words’ – news on AiW’s radar that isn’t already on the site — we are introducing a new “Calls for” post this month, for opportunities and contributions – academic and creative – collated from various platforms and across our Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Do get in touch and let us know if there are any other calls or opportunities that we can feature in our next post, as well as if there are any crossovers, overlaps, productively inter-generating and co-productive conversations between them that we can help to make visible and draw out…

Our Contact Us page has all the details you need, or catch us on our SMs.

Scholarly & Academic – CFPs and CFAs

Journals, Special Issues & Edited Collections:

Call for papers: Thinking Anti-Gender Movements in Africa. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. Contributions will offer original analyses of the plurality of the forms of expression of the anti-gender movement in Africa in both Christian and Muslim contexts. Deadline for submission of paper proposals (in French or English) 10 September 2021. https://networks.h-net.org/node/28765/discussions/7804319/cfp-thinking-anti-gender-movements-africa-politique-africaine  

Culture Africa is open for contributions! This non-profit site for intercultural exchange based in Germany and Kenya is interested in African Culture, Literature, Art, Film and History. Many more details here: https://www.cultureafrica.net/call-for-submissions/

Jobs and Roles:

The Royal African Society in London needs a Digital Communications Manager. Deadline this Friday, 09 July!

Creative-Critical – Makers & Producers

Filmmakers:

Call for submissions: Jozi Film Festival 2021. Deadline: 23 July, with a late submission date of 13 August.

2021’s festival will open on Friday, 17th September and like 2020, be a hybrid of both a virtual festival and well as physical screenings.

“We looking forward to seeing how filmmakers have responded to the global pandemic and how that is reflected in the films that are submitted to us,” says Lisa.

All entries must be submitted via FilmFreeway. 

Books, magazines, creative literary journals:

Call for submissions: African Writers Trust’s Manuscript Assessment Programme. Deadline: 31 July.

Mwanaka Media and Publishing is calling for your creative submissions for the Zimbolicious Anthology, Volume  6: An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts. Open to experienced and young poets, storytellers, novelist, essayists (academic and general), playwrights, visual artists, and songwriters. The anthology will be distributed by African Books Collective. Deadline for entries is 31 July. 

The Other Side of Hope, a new literary magazine celebrating refugee and immigrant communities worldwide, is open for submissions. Deadline 31 July. Please see details on the website: https://othersideofhope.com/submissions.html  And follow Other Side of Hope on Twitter: OtherSideofHope, Instagram: othersideofhope_journeys and on Facebook: TheothersideJourney

A Long House is calling for your submissions to its first issue, Origins. Deadline 05 August.

The Shallow Tales Review literary magazine is collecting entries for its 34th issue. The submission window closes on 20 July.

In partnership with Literandra, the AfroAnthology Series is inviting African writers to participate in, and contribute to, their third collection of creative nonfiction. Deadline: 30 August. 

And also on our radar…. Tumaini Festival!

Call for international artists to participate in Tumaini Festival, the annual music and arts celebration at Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi (taking place this year on 04-07 November). Deadline for applications: 31 July 

Thank you all for reading, and for being here with us. As we said at the head of the post, if there are academic, scholarly or creative, critical calls for… or any other opportunities that you’d like to see featured on the site, or if you’d like to connect up and we can help, in any way – don’t hesitate to get in touch. Our Contact Us page has all the details you need, or catch us on our SMs.

To read our monthly round-up and wrap for June’s news from across our SM – check out “And other words…” here.

Categories: Calls for & opportunities

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