We are now accepting submissions for Tribes Magazine Issue 14.
A Gathering of the Tribes seeks submissions for its 14th issue. Our focus is on outstanding literary and critical work from emerging and established writers with an emphasis on multiculturalism and alternative viewpoints. All genres and styles considered though we generally do not publish “genre” fiction (romance, science fiction, children’s literature, etc.) or metrical poetry or rhyme unless it is exceedingly contemporary/experimental. Writers documenting alternative forms of experience or from diverse backgrounds strongly encouraged to submit. Submit manuscripts (under 20 pages) to: A GATHERING OF THE TRIBES, P.O. Box 20693, Tompkins Square Station, New York, NY 10009 or email your submission to info@tribes.org with “Submission” in the subject.
Website
We publish poetry, fiction, essays and interviews on our website year-round. Please email us with Subject Line: Web Submissions with your attachment in a Word doc only.
General : Due to the massive number of submissions we receive, we do not guarantee response to, or return of work that is not accepted for publication.
You are guaranteed a response only if your work is selected for publication.
The Journal of Lesbian Studies will be devoting a special issue to the topic of LESBIANS, SEXUALITY, AND ISLAM, edited by Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu.
There has been very little published work on lesbians and Islam. Possible topics and methods include, but are not limited to religion, Quran, Hadith, Sharia, personal experiences of Muslim women, ethnic and regional diversities, oral histories, feminist theory, research, fiction, and poetry. Authors may use a pseudonym if they prefer.
Please send a one-page abstract of your proposed contribution to Huma Ahmed-Ghosh at ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu by July 1, 2011. Proposals will be evaluated for originality and writing style, as well as how all the contributions fit together. Potential authors will be invited to write full articles in the range of 5,000 to 7,500 words.
We hope you will consider writing about your scholarship or experiences, so that this important topic receives the attention it deserves.
Huma Ahmed-Ghosh, Professor Department of Women's Studies Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies, Advisory Board Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Advisory Board San Diego State University 5500 Campanile Drive San Diego, CA 92182 Tel: 619-594-3046 Fax: 619-594-5218
The Sultan Qaboos Centre for Islamic Culture, Diwan of Royal Court and Islamic Information Centre at the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque have announced an essay contest on “Mohammed — The Messenger of Peace”. The contest, in which the winners will be awarded cash prizes of RO 400, RO 200 and RO 100 each in three categories, is open to all people, including citizens and Muslims and non-Muslim residents. Participants are asked to write the essay in English within 1,200 words.
The last date for submission of the essay is June 10. The essay should be submitted only by e-mail to grouppositive@yahoo.com, grouppositive@hotmail.com or islamiccentre@yahoogroups.com. There will be four categories of contestants: under 16 years Muslims, under 16 years non-Muslims, above 16 years Muslims and above 16 years non-Muslims.
The essay should be original and not lifted from the Internet and journals but contestants can give proper references for quoting someone. For more information, one can contact Said Muferji (99425598), Aftab Kola (92288410) or Hafidh M Kindy (99341395).
Contact Information:
For inquiries: contact Said Muferji (99425598), Aftab Kola (92288410) or Hafidh M Kindy (99341395)
For submissions: grouppositive@yahoo.com, grouppositive@hotmail.com
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.
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.
For the past few decades, the Islamic banking and finance industry has grown significantly in the global market. We believe that R & D in Islamic Finance are vital to be further developed. Hence, we at KLIFF 2011 are extremely proud to organize this essay competition to encourage in-depth research competitively. We are pleased to invite and encourage everyone to participate in this essay competition by writing to us a well-grounded essay on Islamic banking and finance topics. The winning essays receive awards totaling to USD6, 000.00. We will begin accepting essays starting from 25 April 2011.
ELIGIBILITY
• This contest is open to all (Malaysian or others from all countries of the world)
ENTRY FORMAT
• An English essay of 5,000 to 10,000 words, excluding footnotes and bibliography. • Submissions can be sent via our online submission form (strongly encouraged!), via e-mail to mazlita@cert.com.my. Each entry must be accompanied by a submission form and short CV. • Essays must be in the .doc format, 1 ½ spaced and 12-point Times New Roman font. • Quotes and references must be clearly marked throughout the essay and properly attributed.
PROCEDURES
• Each contestant may submit more than one entry, but each winning contestant will be entitled to only one prize. The prize will be awarded to a winning contestant for his/her highest-scoring entry. • All submissions must be original. A contestant must confirm that his/her entri(es) has /have not been published or entered in other competition . • A winning entry will not be allowed to enter into any other competitions.
COPYRIGHT
• CERT reserves the right, at its sole and absolute discretion, to adapt, edit, modify, reproduce and use the entry (ies) for any promotional or educational purposes without the prior consent from the contestant or providing any payment whatsoever to the contestant . • CERT reserves the right to present no awards, or to reduce the number of awards if an insufficient number of deserving entries is received.
JUDGING CRITERIA
• Presentation skills, including the language, coherency and readability. • Completeness of the essay, including background information, products (s), relevant to the essay development. • Usefulness of the essay to others. • Any form of plagiarism will result in automatic disqualification. • Judges’ decision is final and is not subject to an appeal.
TOPICS
Topics for the essay competition should be focused mainly on the following themes :
1. Islamic Banking & Finance 2. Islamic Economics 3. Islamic Equity & Investments Products 4. Governance in Islamic Finance 5. Shariah Methodology & Fatwa in Islamic Finance 6. Risk in Islamic Finance 7. Takaful & Retakaful 8. Legal and Regulatory Issues in Islamic Finance 9. Accounting in Islamic Finance 10. Shariah Audit in Islamic Finance 11. Legal & Shariah Compliance 12. Islamic Capital Market 13. Islamic Treasury Products 14. Islamic Structured Product & Islamic Derivatives
BIG REWARDS AWAIT THE WINNERS OF THIS YEAR’S ESSAY COMPETITION!
Prizes of the winners
1st Prize: USD2,000 Cash, USD250 CERT Book Vouchers 2nd Prize: USD1,500 Cash, USD150 CERT Book Vouchers 3rd Prize: USD1,000 Cash, USD100 CERT Book Vouchers 3 Consolation Prize: USD300 Cash
• The winner will be given the complementary seat to attend 2-day 8th Kuala Lumpur Islamic Finance Forum (KLIFF 2011).
• Submit your essay with a cover page including your name, address, phone number, organization, email address, essay title.
All entries must be submitted together with duly completed entry forms and sent by mail or e-mail to:
Send all correspondence to: Centre for Research and Training (CERT), 277, Jalan Bandar 11, Metro Melawati, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Any queries please call: +603 4108 1439
Fax the Form below to: +603 4106 1549
Send your details by email: mazlita@cert.com.my
We will send you a confirmation note on receiving your registration form.
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.
Are you interested in the role of education in developing countries? Are you interested in winning £100 or more?
NUHA is launching its first essay competition which is open to all. Whether you’re from Sri Lanka, Sweden or South Africa, we would like to hear what YOU have to say about how you think education should function in your country and across the world.
The competition has been established with the twin aims of:
* Creating an international platform to debate issues relating to education and development * Creating an opportunity to publish the work of students and of people who want to be heard
Who can enter?
Absolutely anyone! There are two prizes this year:
* NUHA Blogging Youth Prize (for those born in 1993 or after): £100 * NUHA Blogging Prize (for those born before 1993): £150
It doesn’t matter whether English is your first, second, third or fourth language: your article will be judged first and foremost on the quality of your argument and the originality of your ideas. What should I write?
Taking education and development as your starting point, write an essay of between 500 and 1,500 words in response to one of the statements below.
Youth category:
1. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Nelson Mandela 2. Education is worth paying for. 3. In the 21st century, it is better to give a child a computer than a book.
General category:
1. “Only the educated are free.” Epictetus 2. The State should encourage access to private education. 3. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler
When should I enter?
As soon as you like! The Editor will read every essay she receives, which may then be posted on the NUHA blog and we hope that you will respond to these postings with further debate.
The deadline for all entries is 16 September 2011 and we may post your article on the NUHA blog until 30 September 2011.
You then have until 31 October 2011 to vote for your preferred articles by liking or re-posting them on Facebook, tweeting about them or emailing them to your friends. You also have until 31 October 2011 to continue debating about the topics above.
On 1 November 2011, the Editor will announce which 9 published articles have been shortlisted for the Prizes. For each Prize, 3 articles will be shortlisted on the basis of your vote, 3 other articles will be shortlisted on the basis of how much you have been debating them, and 3 more articles will be shortlisted on the basis of their intrinsic quality.
On 1 November 2011, the Editor will also unveil the panel of judges for each Prize, who will focus on the quality of the argument and the originality of the ideas of the 9 shortlisted essays.
The winners for both the Blogging Youth Prize and the general Blogging Prize will be announced on 1 December 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.
