Ake Review, the official magazine of the Ake Festival which is one of Africa’s biggest literary festivals has made a call for submission for its 2019 edition and the deadline is in five days time!
The theme for this year’s festival and 7th Ake edition is: Black Bodies, Grey Matter. So, what does that mean? Ake needs creative works that interrogate the link between the mental and the physical, and explore specific phenomena such as scarification, body image, tattoos, stereotyping, gender nonconformity, colourism, and issues around mental health within an African context.
If you are interested you need to make ONE original and unpublished entry in the categories;
- Poetry – Up to three Poems
- Fiction – A short story, max 1,600 words
- Artwork – One or two high-resolution jpeg.
Of course, in addition, you will need to cap this with a bio of no longer than 70 words.
Send your submissions as an email attachment to editor@akefestival.org with the subject title AR SUBMISSIONS. Don’t forget to include your bio and remember that the work has to be original and unpublished… Deadline is Monday 8th July 2019 and this submission is open to writers any where in the world.
All successful submissions will fetch the writer two contributor’s copies!
Ake Festival runs from 24th to 27th October 2019. Follow on Twitter: #AkeFest19 @akefestival
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