Issue Three: A Tall Glass of Water, Summer 2013 Deadline for completed submissions: Monday, November 11th Prufrock and Fox & Raven are joining forces to publish the best of short genre fiction in South Africa. Submit your original story of up… Read More ›
The deadline for the Morland Writing Scholarship is 31st October 2013. Up to 3 grants of £18,000 (paid monthly over the course of a year) will be awarded to early career writers to enable them to pursue their work…. Read More ›
Based at the University of Sussex, School of English. Principal Investigator – Professor Steph Newell. Fixed term for 5 years, 18.25 hours per week Closing date for applications: 15 September 2013 Expected start date: As soon as possible This European Research… Read More ›
Black Letter Media Africa-wide call for unpublished speculative fiction (in English) Novel-length manuscripts They say, “Until the lion learns to speak the take of the hunt will always glorify the hunter”. Our vision, therefore, is to give voice to the… Read More ›
New Universities Project, South Africa School of Heritage, Northern Cape Preliminary Call for Interest Two new universities will open in South Africa in 2014/15. These are the first universities to be launched by the South African government since the move… Read More ›
Call for Papers Journal of African Cinemas – Special Issue on North African Cinema Guest Editor: Dr Stefanie Van de Peer North African cinema has suffered from neglect in studies on African cinema. It’s hinge-like geographical position – is it… Read More ›
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry – ‘New Topographies of the Postcolonial’ CALL FOR PAPERS (30th September 2012) “Dear Colleague, At a time when disciplines are scrambling to keep up with both the accelerations and upheavals of a global informational… Read More ›
10-12 September 2013, University of Nairobi, Kenya Call for Papers East Africa at 50 is an initiative that brings together scholars, writers, journalists, filmmakers and other knowledge producers for a reflection and celebration of the Eastern African region from the vantage… Read More ›
Poetry Foundation Ghana announces its inaugural (2013) GHANA POETRY PRIZE. This will be an award of $ 1,000. This is built on the hugely successful 2012 Online Competition which was done under the name Ghana Poetry Awards. The aim of… Read More ›
With the passing off on March 22, 2013 of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian prolific writer, one has to admit that the founding father of African literature has forsaken his pen forever. While the reference that Achebe is beheld as the… Read More ›
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies: Annual Conference 2013 Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture 22-23 November 2013 Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London The deadline for receipt of abstracts is: 10 June 2013 Amid rapid changes in technologies of… Read More ›
Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: 15 April contact: displacements2013@hum.au.dk website: http://conferences.au.dk/displacements/ Displacements: Forced Migration and the Arts Aarhus University, Denmark October 3-5, 2013 Displacement is and has always been one of the fundamental forms of human existence. Throughout history and all over… Read More ›
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATES: Conference date is Monday 24th June 2013, call for papers closes Friday 10th May 2013. Going Local: African Texts and Cultures. A postgraduate-led conference and workshop at the University of Birmingham, Monday 27th May 2013. Monday… Read More ›
“Francophone African Writers and Anthropology” a panel at the 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago, co-sponsored by the African Literature division and the 20th century French Literature division. The engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in the 20th-century is a noticeably widespread… Read More ›
Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies CALL for UNDER FIRE ARTICLES The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars and human rights… Read More ›
The ASAUK biennial conference will be held at the University of Sussex and will run from 2pm on Tuesday Sept 9th to 3.30 pm on Thursday 11th September 2014. While we are not attempting to give the conference an overarching… Read More ›
AiW Guest Stephanie Bosch Santana. CALL FOR PAPERS The African Language Program in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University presents the 4th Annual African Languages in the Disciplines Conference (ALD) Conference date: April 25, 2013 Harvard University, Cambridge,… Read More ›
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2013 MILEAD FELLOWSHIP. Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa (Moremi Initiative) is pleased to announce its annual call for applications for the 2013 Moremi Leadership Empowerment and Development (MILEAD) Fellows Program. The MILEAD Fellows Program is a long-term leadership development… Read More ›
Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium. University of Cambridge. Tuesday, July 2nd 2013.writingsouthafricanow.wordpress.com The deadline for proposals is Friday, March 1st 2013 has been extended to:Monday 08 April 2013. Writing South Africa Now is a new collective of research students and scholars based… Read More ›
[For those post-millennialists among us?] The Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) announces the 7th edition of its biennial conference: Constructions of Identity – Contemporary Challenges (Cluj-Napoca, 24-26 October 2013). Abstracts should be submitted by September 1,… Read More ›
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