StoryTime: Weekly new fiction by African Writers
Submission Guidelines:
We welcome all African Writers (writers born in Africa, or having domiciled in for over 10 years, and/or holding citizenship in an African country) to submit, in all fiction genres. The story must be an Original work, nothing that infringes the copyright of, or is derived from, another author's work of fiction, is overly lewd, hate speech, etc. You get the idea... StoryTime runs under a Creative Commons 3.0 (Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivativeWorks) License. Works submitted may be:
1) Short stories: 1500 - 8000 words
a) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
b) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to StoryTime and no other publications).
c) No multiple submissions (submit only one work at a time).
2) Excerpts from novels, novellas or novelettes: 1500 - 5000 words, (if the excerpt is unpublished apply point one).
3) All submission to be sent by email (with the subject line - StoryTime Submission: Author name: Story Title - to storytime.submission@gmail.com) in an attached Word (.doc/.docx) or .rtf document (submissions in the body of an email will not be accepted).
4) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, one line space between paragraphs, no indents, and set to UK English.
5) Translations: work may be submitted in any language if accompanied by a full English translation.
6) We are open for submissions year-round.
African Roar
All selections for our annual anthology African Roar are drawn from short stories published in StoryTime between August - August.
Email all submissions to: storytime.submission@gmail.com
Email all inquiries to: storytime.publishing@gmail.com
StoryTime is a registered serial publication: ISSN 2072-9359.