Opportunities

Baobab Journal Call for Submissions: http://www.baobabjournal.co.za/print/28

Call for submissions to special short-fiction edition of Green Dragon. Green Dragon 7, to be published in May next year, is to be a special edition of short fiction only, and will be guest edited by Arja Salafranca. Submit, by hard copy, no more than three items of short fiction, in English, between 2500 and 6000-7000 words. There is no theme. These should be mailed, with an SASE included, as well as a contactable day number and an email address to Arja Salafranca, PO Box 1171, Bromhof 2154, South Africa. Manuscripts without an SASE will not returned, and no correspondence will be entered into about rejected stories. Submission deadline is the end of October 2009. Successful authors will receive a contributors’ copy.

Mo Ibrahim Foundation  – Governance for Development in Africa Initiative (GDAI) Visiting Fellowship
Center of African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London
http://www.soas.ac.uk/cas/gdai/gdai-visiting-fellowships.html

2009 Bastiat Prize Competition (online and print journalism)
http://www.policynetwork.net/main/content.php?content_id=95
http://www.policynetwork.net/main/content.php?content_id=96

UC Berkeley Fellowships for African journalists
http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/410/98/35400.html

OFF Magazine Short Story Competition
http://offmagazine.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/miedzynarodowy-konkurs-literacki/
Submissions – April to June 2009 – (scroll to bottom of page for text in English)