Here are 25 writing contests, careers, calls for submissions, and other opportunities for African writers with submissions or applications due on the 31st of March, 2011:
- Call for African American Poets: Enter the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award -03/31/2011
- Call for Papers: Co-operative Development in Africa: Prospects and Challenges -03/31/2011
Journalists of Color Invited to Apply for The 2011 Society for Features Journalism Diversity Fellowship (Arizona) -03/31/2011
- The SA Writers' College 2011 Annual Short Story Award For Emerging Writers in South Africa -03/31/2011
- Call for Books: The 2011 Nigerian Studies Association Book Award -03/31/2011
- Call for Submissions: Anthology of Middle Eastern/ Muslim Short Fiction -03/31/2011
- Apply for the Speculative Literature Foundation Older Writers Grant -03/31/2011
- Job Opening: Humanities Editor for Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (Kenya) -03/31/2011
- Call for Submissions: January 25 (Revolution) Anthology -03/31/2011
- 2011 BN Poetry Award for Ugandan Women -03/31/2011
- Call for Submissions - Sentinel Nigeria: Online Magazine of Contemporary Nigerian Writing -03/31/2011
- World Petroleum Congress Prize for Young Authors -03/31/2011
- The R25,000 EU Literary Award 2011 for Unpublished Work of Fiction (South Africa) -03/31/2011
- Third Annual South African Wine Writers Award -03/31/2011
- Apply for The Foreign Correspondents’ Scholarship Programme in Finland (eligible African countries: Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia) -03/31/2011
- Anthony Sampson Foundation Award for a Writing/ Reporting Project Relevant to South Africa -03/31/2011
- Forum of Women of the Mediterranean Short Story Competition -03/31/2011
- Win a Publication Contract: Whispers Publishing 2011 Explore Our World Fiction Contest (length: 15,000-30,000) -03/31/2011
- Siemens Africa Profile Awards for Excellence in Science and Technology Journalism -03/31/2011
- Excellence in Journalism Awards - Tanzania Officially Launched -03/31/2011
- The $1,300 Mahdiya/ Aga Khan Museum International Essay Writing Contest -03/31/2011
- Job Opening: Copy/ Sub Editor for Film Event Publishing (South Africa) -03/31/2011
- Call for Entries: 2011 Association of Nigerian Authors Literary Prizes -03/31/2011
- Call for Entries: Nigeria Prize for Literature 2011 -03/31/2011
- The Beverly Nambozo Poetry Award 2011 (Uganda) Now Open for Submissions -03/31/2011