VSC awards a number of fellowships for 4-week residencies throughout the year. In addition to VSC Awards, a variety of special fellowships are also available for full or partial funding as well as specific international fellowships with deadlines on April 1st. To apply for a fellowship, please use our brochure or download an application. To apply for a special fellowship award, applicants should note any additional award name(s) for which they are eligible.
Cave Canem Fellowship
This annual fellowship provides one 4-week residency to a poet who is a Cave Canem fellow. Home for the many voices of African American poetry, Cave Canem is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets. The $25 application fee is waived for Cave Canem applicants.
How To Apply:
1. Print a copy of the residency application form >>
2. Fill out the form and mail it to us with the following:
* Manuscript or Portfolio
* Current Resumé
* References (On a separate page, please provide names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three people who are familiar with your work and would be willing to supply a reference if asked.)
* Financial Status [If you would like to be considered for assistance based on financial need as well as merit, include financial documentation (a copy of the first page of your most recent income tax return, a recent W-2, a statement of need, etc.)].
* Self-Addressed Stamped Postcard (Optional) Returned to you as confirmation of receipt of your application.
3. Applications may be submitted at any time. Applicants who wish to be considered for a fellowship must submit their applications by the fellowship application deadlines (4/1 for specific international fellowships, 6/15, and 10/1 and 2/15 for all others); applications must be received, not postmarked, by the application deadline. For each deadline, applications are reviewed by a revolving jury of professional artists and writers, and the fellowship determinations made.
Portfolio/Manuscript Guidelines
Include THREE (3) copies of your manuscript: For poets, maximum of 10 pages, no more than one poem per page. All other genres, maximum of 15 pages. Please use a standard typeface (e.g. Times, Palatino, Garamond, Courier), minimum 10–point type. Print on one side of the page only. Prose manuscripts should be double–spaced. Manuscripts must be submitted in an unpublished format. The first copy of the manuscript should include a cover sheet with your name, address, and title of the manuscript, and be bound with a paper clip. The second and third copies should be corner stapled and include no cover sheet. Your name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript itself. Manuscripts will not be returned.
TO SEND APPLICATION, VIA U.S. MAIL: VERMONT STUDIO CENTER • P.O. BOX 613 • JOHNSON, VERMONT 05656 USA
VIA PRIVATE CARRIER (FEDEX/UPS): VERMONT STUDIO CENTER • 80 PEARL ST • JOHNSON, VERMONT 05656 USA
Contact Information:
For inquiries: info@vermontstudiocenter.org
For submissions: Vermont Studio Center, PO Box 613, Johnson, Vermont 05656 USa
Bloomberg News, the U.S. financial news agency, is looking for freelance reporters to work from the following African countries:
-Mali -Liberia -Sierra Leone -Guinea-Bissau -Zimbabwe -Seychelles -Comoros -Sao Tome et Principe -Cape Verde -Chad -Gabon -Republic of Congo -Djibouti -Eritrea -Puntland -Equatorial Guinea
Applicants should be based in the country, have a minimum of five years' reporting experience, fluency in English and a familiarity with business, financial and economic reporting. Please note that we are not accepting CVs for any other countries at this time. CVs and/or questions can be sent to Regional Editor Emily Bowers at ebowers1@bloomberg.net. Please put the country of application in the subject line.
Shmoop (www.shmoop.com) is a digital curriculum company that makes learning, teaching, and test prep materials that are - get this - smart and fun. We are seeking graduate students and professionals who know there is a better way to comprehend. Due to the success of our initial subjects, we are ready and excited to include content focusing on African-American lit.
Work with an exciting and growing company doing what you love. We are looking for writers who are passionate about their subjects, are well-informed about current events and today's youth culture, and have a good sense of humor.
Requirements:
* Candidates must have strong writing, editing, and literary analysis skills. * Recent or current PhD student with strong academic performance in undergraduate/graduate degree (or equivalent). All majors welcome. * Areas of particular interest include African-American Literature and Poetry. * Experience and comfort with writing for a non-academic audience, and potential/ability to write in a Shmoopy voice - fun, clear, engaging. * Self-starting, flexible, and comfortable working independently/remotely. * Passion for and understanding of great works of literature (classic and contemporary), as well as communicating that passion to others.
Flexible hours and location (work from home), paid per completed writing project.
When you are finally ready to change learning forever, send us your wittiest writing sample pertaining to one of the subjects listed above, making sure to include cover letter and resume.
Payment is $500 - $1000 per completed writing project.
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles, interviews, and creative writings on the literatures, the histories, the politics, and the arts whose focus, locales, or subjects involve Britain and other European countries and their former colonies, the now decolonized, independent nations in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and also Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Something New out of Twenty-First-Century Africa?
A call for essays for a special issue of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies announces a special issue on new writing from Africa, to be guest-edited by Simon Lewis (College of Charleston) and Lindsey Green-Simms (American University), and published in spring 2013. The editors are looking for articles that address the ways in which the economic, political, and technological changes of the early 21st century have affected the modes of writing on the African continent.
While this theme may be broadly interpreted, the editors are especially interested in articles that engage the following types of questions:
* How is 21st-century African writing reconfiguring the debates about tradition vs. modernity? * How are new media and communication technologies affecting literary expression and readerships? * Has the internet created space for the vernacular, the original, and the local? * How are new geopolitical formations shaping literary production and distribution? * How are new political alignments within the Global South affecting the production of African literature? * Are new strands of nationalism and/or pan-Africanism emerging, or is African literature more profoundly marked by cosmopolitanism, and narratives of migration and/or entrapment? * Does it make sense any more to think of African writing as postcolonial? * How are new trends in environmentalism and new biotechnologies affecting understanding of (human) nature, sustainability, and individual and collective right-living? * What is the relationship between the African novel and modes of popular culture such as Nollywood, hip-hop, or self-help manuals?
Please send substantial, completed essays of 5,000 to 8,000 words to Lindsey Green-Simms and Simon Lewis at lewiss@cofc.edu before November 30th, 2011. Essays must be written in English, using MLA format for style and citations. In order to facilitate blind review, please do not include your name or affiliation in the body of the essay, but provide a separate cover-sheet with that information.
The Itupale Online Journal of African Studies will be hosting an Academic Workshop on Saturday 7th May 2011. The theme for the Workshop relates to Volume IV of the Journal, which will be published in 2012.
The Workshop features a Panel Discussion in the morning, and Small Group Discussions in the afternoon. More details on each session can be found below. Lunch will also be provided.
Please Note: Limited Places
There are only 25 places available on a first-come-first-served basis, and the terms of Itupale's funding means that priority must be given to African students studying in the UK. However, we also have a small number of places available for any UK-based post-graduate students working in an area related to African Studies.
The deadline for registration is Tuesday 3rd May 2011. To register, please e-mail Dr Sacha DeVelle: itupale@cambridgetoafrica.org
Itupale is able to cover reasonable travel expenses for African students living outside of Cambridgeshire.
If you have any enquiries, then please feel free to get in touch with our Administration Officer, Sundeep Athwal: sundeep@cambridgetoafrica.org
Itupale Academic Writing Workshop 'The Millennium Development Goals: Directions and Results in Sub-Saharan Africa' Saturday 7th May 2011 11.00am - 4.00pm The Pavilion, Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge
Contact Information:
For inquiries: sundeep@cambridgetoafrica.org
For submissions: register by emailing itupale@cambridgetoafrica.org
Established in 1992 by the European Commission, the Lorenzo Natali Prize is awarded to journalists for outstanding reporting on Human Rights, Democracy and Development issues.
To organize the Lorenzo Natali Prize, the European Commission works closely with the Reporters Without Borders, winner of the Sakharov Prize in 2005. The Prize has numerous regional multipliers.
Three print and online press winners from each of the five geographic areas – Africa, The Arab World and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean – will receive prize money (1st prize: EUR 5 000, 2nd prize: EUR 2 500, 3rd prize: EUR 1 500) and a trophy.
The two winners of the Special TV Prize and Special Radio Prize, drawn from entries from all regions, will be awarded EUR 5 000 each.
The Lorenzo Natali Grand Prize of an additional EUR 5 000 will be awarded to the winning journalist(s) submitting the best piece of work overall, as determined by an independent Grand Jury.
All Prize winners will be the special guests of the European Commission at an Awards Ceremony organised in their honour in December 2011.
The deadline for receipt of applications is 31 August 2011 and more information about the application process can be found below.
For Print and Online Media
1. You have until 31 August 2011 to submit your application for the 2011 edition. The application form can be accessed here in the Register section of this web site. 2. To enter, professional print, online and news agency journalists must upload a piece of written journalism – either individually or, for jointly authored or produced items, as a group. 3. Only one item or one extract from a series of journalistic works (i.e. one article) can be entered. If you submit more than one, you will be disqualified. 4. The entry must have been published in print, online media or have appeared in an agency dispatch for the first time between 1 July 2010 and 31 August 2011. 5. Your work must have been published in one of five regions: Africa; the Arab World and the Middle East; Asia and the Pacific; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean. 6. It must address human rights and/or democracy and/or development, and have as its background the developing world. Opinion articles are not eligible. 7. Your story must not exceed 10 000 characters with spaces (about 1 400 words). We will consider a short version of a longer item, but you have to upload the full-length piece as well. There is no minimum length requirement. 8. You can submit an article in any language. If it is written in one of the 23 official European Union languages, you must also submit a summary in English or French or Spanish. If you want to enter an article that is not in one of the 23 official European Union languages, you must provide a translation in English or French or Spanish in addition to the summary. The summary should be carefully written as it will be key for pre-selection. It must be no longer than 2 000 characters including spaces. 9. All works will go through a phase of pre-selection. The top 10 items in each category will be given to an independent Grand Jury. The jury will consist of seven people who are recognised figures in journalism, development, democracy and human rights. The jury will choose the final winners. 10. You work will be assessed on: relevance to democracy, human rights, development; originality of approach; professional quality, investigative depth; and public/political impact, if any. The decision of the Grand Jury shall be final. 11. Three prizes will be awarded in each of the five regions. A Grand Prize will be awarded for the best piece of journalism across all media (including TV and radio). 12. The winners in each region will receive a trophy and prize money of EUR 5 000 for first place, EUR 2 500 for the runner up, and EUR 1 500 for third place. The winner of the Grand Prize will receive a trophy and EUR 5 000. 13. The European Commission has the right to reproduce and disseminate the works submitted in its own publications and in publicity material for the Lorenzo Natali Prize, including through its website, its partners and by any other means necessary to promote the Prize. 14. Laureates cannot enter the Prize the year following their award, but are eligible for subsequent editions. Articles written by current members of staff of the European Union institutions or the Mostra communications agency will not be considered. These people can enter three years after leaving their position.
Q: How can I apply?
A: You need to sign up here and submit your completed application. Take time to read the Rules to make sure you know what you need to do to get your entry ready on time.
Q: What must I fill out and upload?
A: Entrants have to fill out the online application form and supply one piece of published journalism – either print, online, radio or television – and a summary of that item in the accepted languages. See the Rules section for detailed information for each media, or Sign Up to see the application form.
Q: Where must my work have been published or broadcast?
A: The piece of journalism must have been published or broadcast in one of five regions: Africa; the Arab World and the Middle East; Asia and the Pacific; Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean.
Q: If I have published an article in a Maghreb country of northern Africa, which region will I compete in?
A: You will compete in the “the Arab World, Iran and Israel”. The countries in this region are: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, United Arabic Emirates, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Syria, Turkey and Yemen.
Q: What if I work for the regional bureau of an international broadcaster or news agency which has its headquarters elsewhere, such as in North America?
A: In the online application form, you can indicate either the country of the media or the country where your article or report was published.
Q: Can I enter a piece of journalism that is not written in one of the 23 languages of the European Union?
A: If your article or script is not originally in one of the 23 EU languages, you must submit a translation of it and a summary in either English or French or Spanish.
Q: Do I have to submit a summary if my article is written in English, French or Spanish?
A: Yes, a summary of 2 000 characters including spaces must accompany all entries. It must be carefully written as it will form the basis of the pre-selection process.
Q: What criteria will my work be judged on?
A: Your work will be judged on how relevant the subject is to democracy, human rights and development issues, how original the approach is, its professional quality, the depth of investigation carried out and what public or political impact the item has had, if any.
Q: When is the deadline?
A: The deadline for submitting entries is 31 August 2011. The items must have been published or broadcast between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2011.
Q: Can I participate in this year’s Lorenzo Natali Prize if I did last year?
A: Yes, the competition is open to all journalists who have published an article on the defence of democracy or human rights or development from 1 July 2010 to 31 August 2011. However, the 2010 winners are not allowed to apply for the 2011 edition. They can apply again from 2012.
Q: Are blogs an accepted form of online distribution?
A: No.
Q: Who will be on the jury for the Lorenzo Natali Prize 2011?
A: The Grand Jury will be independent and made up of seven recognised public figures from the domains of journalism, development, human rights and democracy.
Q: What do you mean by ‘developing world’ in the rules?
A: The European Commission wants to use the Natali Prize to promote development, human rights and democracy in the developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and in the Arab World and the Middle East. Any article dealing with these areas is accepted.
Firstly we would like to thank all those who submitted work to the anthology, we greatly appreciated your entries. We congratulate the following writers whose work has been selected:
Poetry: Abigail George, Yemi Soneye, Tinashe Muchuri, Vivid Gwede, Mukoma Wa Ngugi, and Dami Ajayi.
Interviews: Tinashe Mushakavanhu and Eric Nzaramba.
We have re-opened submissions until the 29th February 2012, and will be publishing (if all goes well) on Marechera's 60th Birthday next year.
We are looking for excellence in essays, reviews, short stories, poems, and interviews, which show new insights into Marechera's works and life. Fun, interesting, and probing works that feature Marechera, directly or indirectly, as a major theme. What effects did he have personally, socially, in literature, academically, historically, contemporary, and what effects did they have on him? What drove his demons and saints, etc.?
Guidelines:
You are invited to enter your submissions until the 29th of February 2012.
Editors:
Emmanuel Sigauke – Poetry
Tinashe Mushakavanhu – Essays/interviews
Ikhide Ikheloa – Reviews
Ivor Hartmann – Short Stories
Poetry (doc, docx, rtf)
1) Theme: “Remembering Marechera”
2) Word count: 10-1000 words.
3) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, no indents, and set to UK English.
4) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
5) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to this anthology and no other publications).
6) Multiple submissions are allowed but only one work per author will be selected.
7) Deadline: 29th of February 2012.
Essays/Interviews (doc, docx, rtf)
1) Theme: “Remembering Marechera”
2) Word count: 1000-5000 words.
3) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, no indents, and set to UK English.
4) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
5) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to this anthology and no other publications).
6) Multiple submissions are allowed but only one work per author will be selected.
7) Deadline: 29th of February 2012.
Reviews (doc, docx, rtf)
1) Theme: “Remembering Marechera”
2) Word count: 1000-5000 words.
3) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, no indents, and set to UK English.
4) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
5) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to this anthology and no other publications).
6) Multiple submissions are allowed but only one work per author will be selected.
7) Deadline: 29th of February 2012.
Short Stories (doc, docx, rtf)
1) Theme: “Remembering Marechera”
2) Word count: 1000-5000 words.
3) Submission format: single line spaced, font Times New Roman 12pt, no indents, and set to UK English.
4) Must be unpublished (not previously published in print or online).
5) No simultaneous submissions (only submitted to this anthology and no other publications).
6) Multiple submissions are allowed but only one work per author will be selected.
Penplusbytes in association with Highway Africa announces first Pan African New media essay completion. The competition aims at increasing journalism students’ knowledge and understanding of the importance of new media in our changing world.
Languages: French and English
Topic:
In a quest to define Africa’s sustainable future in ten years time (2021), through critical thought in the media. Discuss what role will new media play in the social, political and economical transformation of the African continent? And how can we get there?
Who is eligible?
Student enrolled in public and private journalism, mass communications and media schools at the under graduate level on the Africa continent still in school by September 2011. Students must submit original essay and have a sponsoring lecturer preferably head of department signed entry form.
Format
The essay should be 800-1000 words typed and must be double spaced. Each entry must be accompanied by an entry form downloaded here.
Entering
Send all entries (essay and forms) via email to training@penplusbytes.org
Prizes
The winners of this pan Africa Award will receive very attractive prizes.
1st Place: Fully paid participation in Highway Africa Future Journalists Programme workshops in Cape Town South Africa, September 2011 plus $300 (Three Hundred US dollars) spending money.
2nd Place: iPad 2 3rd Place: Net book laptop 4th place – Small format video recorder 5th to 10th Places– certificate of commendation
Dates to remember:
Entry Deadline: 15th July 2011 Notification of Awards: 15th August 2011
“Many Cinemas” is a forthcoming e-magazine (1st Issue announced: Spring 2011). It will dedicate its bi-annual issues the many cinemas of the non-western world, namely Asia, Africa, Latin America and other small cinema traditions.
“Many Cinemas” will be a magazine for film aesthetics, theory and analysis beyond the main stream film studies. Every issue will focus one specific topic, and we hope to publish different articles from each continent. The editors will select the proposals and accompany the publishing process. Afterward, “Many Cinemas” will be open peer reviewed, respectively commented.
CFP TRAVELLING
MANY CINEMAS seeks for articles on cinema which focus on travelling – and just like our maxim – in the non-western cinemas of the world like Asia, Africa and Latin America. Holiday, business, private matters. There are several reasons for travelling. The autumn edition of MANY CINEMAS will dedicate its issue to the topic “Travelling”.
Travelling: People undertake a journey to places, strange and not familiar to them. How do they act or behave in an unfamiliar environment and how does it take an impact on them? Cinema is close connected with travelling. It is a window to the world, both real and imaginary. The lights turn off and pictures appear which bring you to places far away.
We are interested in every aspect of travel in cinema.
Some possible topics are:
* How to travel in film, reasons, way of travelling, genre-questions? * Travel in search of relatives, lovers or someone/something else? * Exploring own roots – Culture and Identity * Thoughts of travels * Vehicles of voyage * Travelogues * Images of appearing and vanishing landscapes and people * Travel and interruption * Travelling Cinema
And for our rubric BEYOND THE SCREEN we are looking for articles which are loosely connected to film like music, dance, performance, visual culture…
We would like to invite you to participate to our second issue of our e-journal MANY CINEMAS. This time we are looking especially for participants writing on African, Arabian, Latin American, Chinese, or Japanese cinema.
After our first issue which will be published in End of May 2011, the second issue will take place in autumn 2011.
Please send us your proposal (300-500 words) and a brief CV until 15th May 2011. Do not hesitate to mail us, if you have some questions.
The later articles should have a length of 3000 to 4000 words. Please send your proposal to Helen Staufer and Michael Christopher.
A fast growing African online portal is looking for a Big Brother Africa blogger to blog for its audience throughout the show’s duration.
The ideal candidate is passionate about Big Brother Africa and should have followed the show since inception. The candidate should be obsessively interested in the show and its candidates and have a fun, interesting and insightful writing style. He or she will also maintain each of this year’s representatives’ page on the website with up to date information about their show performance.
The ideal candidate will blog about the following:
- Interesting highlights from daily, nomination and highlight shows - Updates about evictions as well as interesting web videos and stories about show segments - Opinions about Big Brother Africa Representatives and their eviction chances - Any other insightful commentary that will be useful to the website’s audience
The candidate can be of any nationality and should be able to work remotely from a laptop computer. The candidate should also have strong writing and new media skills. The candidate will also be responsible for sharing their ideas with passionate online communities on African social networking sites as well as on Facebook and Twitter to gather a following for their posts.
Interested candidates should please send recent writing samples or a quick writing sample about the just concluded Big Brother Africa Launch show to ndaliking@gmail.com. Writing samples should feature the following strengths; a good sense of humour and a fun, insightful writing style.
Deadline: Submit your application as soon as possible as the position needs to be filled immediately.
Think beyond the borders of the usual settings (The United States seems to be the only place where spaceships land). Future Hong Kong. Post-apocalyptic Africa. The drowned coastlines of Australia in a warmer world. A city beneath the waves near Easter Island. India five thousand years from now.
Future Lovecraft will open to submissions for short stories and poetry from May 1 to June 30, 2011. Do not send any submissions before this date. Yes, we mean it.
The anthology will be available in print and as an e-book, and is edited by the eldritch duo of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles.
What We Want
Lovecraftian science fiction stories. ‘Lovecraftian’ can include Mythos elements, but we have a broader view of what Lovecraftian means. Interpret and distill it. Stories may be set in the near future or distant future. They may be cyberpunk, biopunk, space opera, dystopic, post-apocalyptic, or any other flavour of science fiction.
Surprise us with your visions of the future. Think beyond the borders of the usual settings (The United States seems to be the only place where spaceships land). Future Hong Kong. Post-apocalyptic Africa. The drowned coastlines of Australia in a warmer world. A city beneath the waves near Easter Island. India five thousand years from now. The distant spaceport of New Port-au-Prince. The Martian and Lunar colonies. Give us protagonists with diverse and interesting backgrounds. Give us women who can battle Nyarlathotep’s deadly soldiers with wit and bravado, not sacrificial space-maidens. Gives us the story of the little folk that are often forgotten, like the cook aboard the space vessel who discovers a terrible secret.
Further fiction guidelines below. For poetry, send up to three poems pasted in the body of the e-mail, with a cover letter. Poems paid at $10 CAD per poem. A physical contributor’s copy and e-book copy are provided.
Length
Short fiction (1,000 words) to novelette (10,000 words). Keep in mind we have a payment cap of $70 CAD, and limited space in the anthology, so your long novelette might be better served by finding another home.
Payment
One cent per word up to a maximum of $70 CAD; one physical copy of the anthology and one e-book copy.
Payment made via PayPal or Canadian check upon publication.
We are purchasing first English anthology print and electronic rights.
Reprints
Considered, with a few caveats:
1. Indicate where and when the story was originally published in your cover letter. 2. Reprints offered should not be easily available in print or online. 3. Payment is a flat $30 CAD for reprints.
If you published it in a small collection in 1985 and it’s no longer on the market, that’s fine. If it was published in a German magazine and never translated to English, we’d like to see it. If it appeared in a now-defunct zine, that’s okay, too. If it was in a recent issue of an English-language zine that is currently online, no.
Submitting
E-mail us at innsmouthfp AT gmail.com. Subject line: Future Lovecraft, [Title of your Story, Author's Name]. The subject line is important; otherwise, the story might go into the wrong pile.
Do not send simultaneous submissions. Do not send more than one short story submission, because we will not consider more than one at a time and will make you resubmit any simultaneous submissions after we answer on the previous one. If we reject one story, you can send another one.
Include a cover letter with the story word count, salient writing credits and any reprint information (if applicable). Yes, we do read cover letters, so please include the information (Paula gets cranky when stories arrive sans byline, title, or cover letter).
Attach story as an RTF (preferred) or Word document. Use standard manuscript format. Italics as italics, bold as bold. No fancy fonts.
Stories can be sent in English, French, or Spanish.
Submissions are accepted from May 1 to June 30, 2011. Do not send anything before or after that date. If you do, we will ignore it.
We will reject some stories as they come in and send others to the hold pile. Final story selection will take place in July 2011.
Paradigm Shift is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal of essays that challenge the basic assumptions underlying much research about peoples of African descent, particularly, but not limited to legacy Black Americans. The research under investigation may be in the social and behavioral sciences, the life and biomedical sciences, or the arts and humanities. Paradigm Shift is published once a year, in March, through the Institute of African American Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The journal seeks electronic submissions of essays of 4000 to 5000 words that present novel alternative explanations, insights, and perspectives on various topics of relevance to research on African Americans. Authors are encouraged to send their essays to iaar@unc.edu,attention Paradigm Shift Editor. The first issue of Paradigm Shift is scheduled for e-publication on June 30, 2011 with prospective submissions due at IAAR by April 30, 2011.
The Black AIDS Institute is looking for 30 Black Americans 30 years old or younger to share their views about HIV/AIDS. You could be one!
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed in the United States. Who would have thought that a strange disease first identified among a small group of gay men in Los Angeles would turn into the leading health issue of our time, killing tens of millions across the globe and threatening the national security of countries all over the world.
This June, the Black AIDS Institute will publish its 2011 State of AIDS in Black America report commemorating 30 years since the first AIDS cases were diagnosed in the United States. The report will include a supplement featuring 30 essays from Black Americans age 30 and younger. We want to hear from this unique generation of Black Americans who have never known life without HIV/AIDS. We invite you to share your thoughts about HIV and AIDS.
Today, Black America bears the brunt of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, accounting for nearly 50% of the estimated 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS, nearly 50% of the 56,000 new cases each year, and almost 50% of AIDS related deaths to date.
What do you think about the HIV/AIDS epidemic? How has it impacted your life? Even if you’ve not been touched by the disease or don’t know anyone who has, we want to know what your think. What do you think should be done to end the epidemic in Black communities? Have you’ve been tested for HIV? How was that experience for you? Have you ever met someone living with HIV/AIDS? Do you talk about HIV with your friends or partners? What do you talk about? Write to us. Share your thoughts. The world wants to know what young Black America thinks about HIV/AIDS.
Submission requirements: Submissions must be no longer than 800 words. All contributors must be age 30 or younger on June 1, 2011. Submit essays EMBEDDED within your email to 30under30@blackaids.org . Please include a short bio (one paragraph please), a high resolution photo of yourself, and a contact phone number. Due to the high volume of submissions, we can only respond to submissions we intend to publish. Submission deadline is May 1, 2011.
The Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kyiv will present an award for investigative journalism in a developing country or a country in transition, which was reported under threat, duress or difficult conditions. This is the fourth conference at which the Global Shining Light Award is being granted. The first was presented at the Toronto Global Conference is 2007.
Background
Each year dozens of journalists and media workers are killed - and hundreds more are attacked, imprisoned or threatened - just for just doing their job. Many of these violations of free expression occur in developing or emerging countries, and quite often during military conflicts. There are a number of international awards recognizing such attacks on freedom of expression.
However, another clear trend emerges in analyses of global attacks on reporters and the media: More and more journalists are being killed, and media outlets attacked, because they are carrying out important efforts in investigative journalism, exposing uncomfortable truths, shining light on systemic corruption, and providing accountability in societies yearning for democracy and development.
Criteria
The award goes to a journalist, journalism team and/or a media outlet that provided independent, investigative reporting, which was broadcast or published between January 1, 2010 and April 1, 2011, and which:
* originated in and affected a developing or emerging country
* was of an investigative nature, well written and presented
* uncovered an issue, a wrong-doing and/or a system of corruption which gravely affected the common good
* was researched and reported risking aggression or intimidation to themselves, their families or their publishers/broadcasters
* had an impact or could have an impact in the future
Nominations
Nominations for this award may be made by independent Investigative journalism organizations, associations of journalists, independent media outlets, or an investigative journalist.
Submissions should include:
A nomination letter listing the journalist’s name (or names of team members), and name of his/her media organization with address, telephone number, fax and email.
The letter should provide a brief summary containing:
· the entry topic · explaining the importance of the story · how the research was made · the challenges faced in reporting it · and the political or social impact it made upon its broadcast or publication
Also please include one copy of the published entry or one copy of the broadcast material with a copy of the script.
NOTE
The entry must be submitted or translated into English. If there is no English version, it will not be eligible for judging.
Entries must be received no later than July 15th, 2011.
Entries should be sent to either: Thomas Hjortsoe, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR Byen, Emil Holms Kanal 20, 0999 Copenhagen C, Denmark.
Or email address: thomashjortsoe(a)gmail.com
The award
The winning entrant will be notified approximately at the end of August 2011. Airfare, hotel, per diems and conference registration for the journalist or one member of the team is included in the award.
The presentation of the award of € 1.000 and a plaque will be made at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Kyiv in October, 2011. More about the GIJC 2011 here.
The jury
Kajsa Norell, Sweden, European journalist of the year 2010
Angelina Nunes, Brazil, leading investigative reporter at O Globo
Paul C. Radu, Romania, awarded the Global Shining Light in Canada
Anton Harber, South Africa, professor and investigative reporter
Contact Information:
For inquiries: Thomas Hjortsoe, secretary of the jury (thomashjortsoe@gmail.com)
Critical essays and creative pieces are sought for an interdisciplinary book on African immigrant women in the United States. African immigrant women comprise 45.6% of African immigrants in the United States and represent the second most educated group of women in the United States. This demographic profile is yet to grab the critical attention of US immigration and new African diaspora scholars. The edited volume seeks to bring to visibility the hitherto untapped critical mass of African immigrant women in the United States.
The influx of African immigrants into the United States in the last three decades is steadily leaving marks on the nation’s ethnic and cultural landscape. Federal data for 2010 shows that African nations are now the largest suppliers of immigrants in places like Minnesota where Asians and Latin Americans traditionally formed the immigrant stock. Similarly such recent and expanding enclaves as “Little West Africa” or “Little Senegal” in Harlem, ”Fouta Town” in Brooklyn and “Little Somalia” in Minneapolis assert the unequivocal formation of a new African diaspora in the United States.
Scholars have been catching up with this new African diaspora, as shown by numerous essays on cultural and racial negotiations, translocal and transnational practices, and entrepreneurship. However substantial and comprehensive studies, in the form of books, have been slow in the making. To date, the most significant studies include John Arthur’s Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States (2000), Paul Stoller’s Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City (2002), Jacqueline Copeland-Carson’s Creating Africa in America: Translocal Identity in an Emerging World (2004), Jacob Olupona and Regina Gemignani’s African Immigrant Religions in America(2007), Isidore Okpewho and Nkiru Nzegwu’s The New African Diaspora (2009), John Arthur’s African Women in the United States: Crossing Transnational Borders (2009), and Zain Abdullah’s Black Mecca: The African Muslims of Harlem (2010).
With the exception of John Arthur’s African Women in the United States, which focuses exclusively on West African women and adopts a sociological methodology, this emerging body of scholarship falls short on gender analysis. Yet critical theorists of migration have now established that a sophisticated reading of immigrant processes necessitates gender-sensitive and gender-specific approaches. The lack of such approaches in existing studies of the new African diaspora has rendered African immigrant women invisible despite a unique demographic profile that identifies them as an important critical mass of both the African immigrant experience and the woman immigrant experience in the United States. Data from the 2000 US Census indicate that African immigrant women, 68.4% of whom are in their childbearing years, represent 45.6% of African immigrants. According to the same data, African immigrant women represent the second most educated group of women in the United States. In light of this demographic profile, the invisibility of African immigrant women in both the emerging scholarship on the new African diaspora and the more established scholarship on immigrant women in the United States strikes us as a major epistemological gap.
African Women in Motion: Gender in the New African Diaspora in the United States seeks to fill the above-mentioned gap. To this effect we welcome critical essays and creative pieces that reckon the centrality of African immigrant women as a site of analysis and an epistemological window to the new African diaspora in the United States. We are particularly keen on contributions that resist the traditional “deficit-framing” of immigrant women by dominant discourses. The book is in an interdisciplinary study. As such we welcome contributions from all disciplines as well as contributions that adopt interdisciplinary methodologies. We also seek to represent immigrant women from different parts of the continent.
Possible topics might include (but are in no way limited to) the following:
• Creation and negotiation of new gender roles and identities • African immigrant women and the discourses of diaspora, transnationalism, translocalism, postnationalism, cosmopolitanism • African cultural scripts that feed and sustain the subject-positions of African immigrant women • Role of African immigrant women in developing and sustaining such places a “Little West Africa” in Harlem, “Fouta Town” in Brooklyn, or “Little Somalia” in Minneapolis • Literary perspectives on African immigrant women; African female artists of the new African diaspora • Reading the Bodies of African Immigrant Women • Historical perspectives on African immigrant women in the United States • Motherhood • Relations between African immigrant women and other Black women; African immigrant women and race • African Muslim women in post 9-11 America • African immigrant women in the professions, in academia, as entrepreneurs • Undocumented African Immigrant women • African immigrant women and domestic violence/abuse • African immigrant women and their relationships to home • African immigrant women as activists and community organizers • African immigrant women and dating • African women students in US higher education • African women refugees • African women in US prisons • African women sex workers
Please send a 300-500 words article proposal, accompanied by a short bio-biographical statement listing your institutional affiliation, before June 15, 2011 to the editors: Ayo A. Coly (ayo.a.coly@dartmouth.edu) and Marame Guèye (gueyem@ecu.edu). Deadline for complete submissions: November 15, 2011
Contact Information:
For inquiries: ayo.a.coly@dartmouth.edu, gueyem@ecu.edu
For submissions: ayo.a.coly@dartmouth.edu, gueyem@ecu.edu
Crossed Genres Publications is currently OPEN for submissions of completed novels to publish in print and ebook formats.
What to include in your submission:
* Your personal contact information, including applicable credits (in the email’s body) * A cover letter containing a detailed yet concise synopsis of your novel * The first ten (10) pages of your novel. DO NOT send the entire novel!
To submit your novel, please use the submissions form. Write the title of your novel and your name in the Subject line. Submission attachments must be .doc, .docx or .rtf. NOTE: Crossed Genres Publications does NOT accept Multiple or Simultaneous submissions for novels.
Manuscript format
* 12 pt. Times New Roman or Arial (Courier is evil) * Single-spaced, line between paragraphs * Italics for italics, Bold for bold, etc.
Beyond the above we’re not picky, but please don’t get too “creative”: no blue paper/fonts, 18-pt Copperplate Gothic chapter titles, or 2-inch margins. (Yes, we have seen these.)
What are we looking for?
Manuscripts between 50,000 and 100,000 words (Firm). The story must be Science Fiction and/or Fantasy; blending of other genres is fine, but not required.
We tend to favor character-driven stories, but that doesn’t mean we won’t appreciate a strong action piece. Make your characters fascinating and your plot engaging. Read some of our previous publications to get an idea of what we like. Things we want to see MORE of:
* Queer characters * Characters of Color * Women MCs * Disabled characters * Science saves the day! * Far future * Stories set outside North America
Beyond that, there is no hard-and-fast rule; any story that follows the above guidelines will be considered.
What are we NOT looking for?
While Crossed Genres will consider any submissions, we’re unlikely to be interested in concepts which seek to build on currently popular themes. If you’ve described your novel as “[Bestselling Novel #1] meets [Bestselling Novel #2]“, it’s probably not what we’re looking for. The below will be very hard sells:
* Vampires, zombies or werewolves * “Science-as-villain” * Weak women being rescued by macho guys * Arthurian retellings * Eurocentric faeries * Time travel * Ghost stories
Though it should go without saying, any submissions promoting discrimination, bigotry, and/or hatred will be deleted without notice or consideration.
Compensation:
Crossed Genres will pay an advance of $250 for accepted novels, paid on publication. After the novel has earned out the advance, the author will receive royalties based on sales.
Rights:
Crossed Genres takes first worldwide print and ebook rights for two (2) years.
Crossed Genres magazine
Payment: $10 ($25 for cover art), free E-Book, discounts
Short Stories
* 1,000-8,000 words (FIRM) * Science Fiction and/or Fantasy and/or Horror combined with the current genre * We no longer accept simultaneous submissions.
(We do not accept stories above 8,000 words.)
Articles
* 500-3000 words * Articles focused on Science Fiction, Fantasy, and/or the current genre
The competition is open to organizations and individuals that work with radio in Africa, including radio stations, broadcasters, production organizations, NGOs with a radio project, farmers’ associations with a radio program, health NGOs interested in collaborating with a local radio station, etc.
Entries
Your radio script should tell the true story of an initiative in your region that is contributing to a healthy community. If you choose to write a script in drama format, or as a two-host conversation or in narrative, storytelling form, your characters and situations must be based on real people and real situations. There are a great number of potential themes, and you are free to choose the one which suits you best. The following categories are offered as suggestions for you to consider. Please note that you are not limited to these categories.
· Healthy environment: community solutions for environmental health, including sustainable land use, transportation, water, sanitation and waste management, and healthy home conditions (for example, reducing air pollution from cooking, and separating livestock and human living spaces),
· Agriculture and health: agricultural practices that help farmers contribute to a healthy community, such as controlled use of pesticides, and minimizing the impact of fertilizers on drinking water.
· Maternal health and family planning: community initiatives that promote maternal health and family planning.
· Access to information and health services: health literacy, and community health education and services on topics such as sexually transmitted diseases, for example, knowledge about HIV and care for people living with HIV and AIDS.
· Equality and social justice: opportunities for women to make informed decisions about their health, promoting equal opportunities for marginalized groups.
· Community peace and safety: initiatives that enable people to live in peace; projects that help people resolve conflict; preventing work-related accidents.
The competition is committed to promoting gender equality and encourages scripts that feature stories of healthy community initiatives that benefit and involve rural women.
Rules
Submitted scripts must be prepared by talking with people in your community who are involved and/or who benefit from the healthy community initiative. Scripts can be written in a variety of formats – for example, dramas, two-host conversations, interviews or roundtable discussions. The script must be an original piece of work written specifically for this competition. It must be between 500-2000 words with an approximate airing time of between 5 and 10 minutes, including music, and include references to all information sources used to prepare the script (e.g., rural people, health institutions, NGOs, documents, etc.).
Above all, the radio script should engage and inspire listeners.
Here are some important dates to keep in mind:
May 25: Registration Opens
August 16: Online Training Course Starts
October 24: Online Training Course Ends
November 1: Last day to submit script
January 2011: Winners Announced
Submit Script
Script entries must be received no later than November 1, 2010.
At the end of the course page, you will find a link where you can submit your script. We also encourage you to submit an audio version. You can also e-mail your script and audio version to submit@farmradio.org.
Participants agree to provide Farm Radio International and its collaborators the right to use their submitted audio and script material.
Prizes
The scripts will be reviewed by an international panel of judges. Top entries will be eligible for a variety of prizes, ranging from digital audio recorders to training and conference opportunities. The winners will be announced in January 2011. The winning scriptwriters will work with Farm Radio International staff to improve their scripts, making them truly radio-ready. Winning scripts will be published and distributed to radio stations across sub-Saharan Africa and made available on Farm Radio International’s website at www.farmradio.org. All entrants will receive feedback on their scripts.
IPS is an international news agency that produces news features and analyses about development, the environment and rights. The news agency has a strong focus on developing countries, emerging economies and South-South co-operation.
Overall Purpose of the Job
The editor in Africa will join a global pool of editors based in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Latin America. The team looks to ensure that IPS has timely stories in line with its broad remit, and that these stories have content and presentation to the highest professional standards. The editor in Africa oversees copy in English and in French.
Main Duties
The main duties are to:
• Nurture and grow the team of contributing writers primarily in Africa.
• Work with the editors in chief to ensure that contributing writers are sensitized to IPS priorities, follow the IPS Style Book and generate news stories that are fresh and readable.
• Edit stories to high professional standards in English and oversee work of French editor.
• Be a team player within the global pool of editors, working across regions as necessary.
• Plan news coverage with writers well in advance, and join the weekly editorial meeting to distribute assignments according to the overall news agenda.
• Collaborate with global colleagues to generate occasional multi-datelined stories.
• Balance the coverage from Africa within overall financial limits and taking full account of issue quotas generated by specific reporting agreements (“projects”).
• Share expertise and advice with IPS colleagues marketing the product and concluding news coverage agreements.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required
Candidates with a minimum of five years of editing experience with an established publication are invited to apply. IPS is looking for:
• High quality and tight editing. An ability to produce catchy headlines and inviting leads.
• An ability to rewrite copy when necessary, particularly when working with good writers across the region whose first language may not be English.
• Wide awareness of the political and social situation in many of the countries in the region.
• An ability to anticipate stories with the IPS priorities in mind.
• An ability to edit fast without losing quality.
• A willingness to communicate extensively with writers and to support them in planning stories and to be a team player in a global pool of editors working across time zones.
* Perfect English and working knowledge of French required, with bi-lingual (English - French) candidates preferred.
• Knowledge of other languages and expertise within specific field(s) of IPS priorities will be advantages.
• A keen awareness of the needs of developing countries and emerging economies and issues of concern to them.
Salary range
Depending on experience. Please include your current remuneration in your application letter. The contract for this post will be handled from IPS’s global administrative centre.
Submission Instructions
To apply please send your CV (max. 2 pages) and a cover letter (max. one page) which systematically outlines why your experience fits the job description and skills requirements. Please send to africaeditor@ips.org by the 20 th March. Shortlisted candidates can expect to be contacted by the end of the month.
Do you have knowledge and experience in African American hair, skin, or make up? Are you interested in writing articles about hair and beauty and sharing your knowledge?
Hairstarzonline.com is a new social networking site for beauty industry professionals. Hairstarzonline.com will profile the best of the best stylists, barbers, makeup artists, braiders, estheticians, and provide insightful information, tips, tutorials, as well as news on events seminars, and more.
Hairstarzonline.com is currently looking for writers for the new website.
• Build your portfolio while gaining exposure as a writer. • Write about techniques and services you have knowledge about • Earn $10-$15 per 300-600 word articles • Payments made through Paypal
Qualifications:
• Writing experience for beauty or fashion website or magazine • Education – Journalism or English
Please send resume and samples or links to articles to: TheCWmagazine@yahoo.com
Our next open anthology will begin accepting submissions on June 1, 2011, and we will take stories until August 30, 2011. The theme of this anthology is “Fish”. We want your mythic adventures and modern retellings. We want Dagan, not of Lovecraft but of the Phillistines. We want Ku-ula, of Hawaii, and Hatmehyt, and Nereus with his bounty. We want magic koi in ancient ponds and the street shaman with his fishy avatar, stalking the streets in some odd future. We want sharks, hunting far out at sea. We want carnival goldfish with short-lived secrets.
Send us something beautiful.
Submit stories of up to 4,000 words (flash of under 1000 is also encouraged) to: submissions@daganbooks.com
Stories must be sent as a .doc attachment. Do not double space after the end of sentences. Do use paragraphs and tab indents. Do no add an extra line after each paragraph.
Subject heading must have: [FISH] Story Title, Author Last Name
This project pays 1 cent per word plus 1% royalty, paid quarterly, for the first two years of the book’s life.
