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Below is a list of international scholarships programs for African women and other developing countries, for Postgraduate and Undergraduate studies. These are niche scholarship programs that are specifically for women. You can also apply for other international scholarships that are not gender specific. Use the search box above to Find more scholarships.

Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for Women in Africa, Europe and the Middle East

Google- the internet giant- offers The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for women in Africa, Europe and the Middle East. The scholarship is for female Undergraduate and postgraduate students. Through the scholarship, Google aim to encourage women from the international community to excel in computing and technology. Multiple scholarships are awarded based on the strength of candidates' academic performance, leadership experience and demonstrated passion for IT, computer science, computer engineering.
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Fondation Rainbow Bridge MBA Scholarship for Women

The Fondation Rainbow Bridge will enable young women scholars to enrich their academic background by obtaining an HEC MBA in France. Recipients of this scholarship are top-caliber female candidates who have been admitted to the HEC MBA program and who can demonstrate exemplary leadership skills in one or more of the following areas:

Community work,
Charity engagement,
Sustainable development practices. Women applying for the Scholarship Award must come from an African country affected by a natural disaster, drought or famine.

Deutsche Bank Scholarships for Women at London Business School

The Deutsche Bank scholarships will be awarded to MBA and Masters in Financestudents in the AMOUNT of £20,000 each.
These extremely generous awards are designed to enable talented women with an interest in the finance sector to study at London Business School. Scholarships are awarded every year- Annually.

Executive MBA Programme Scholarship for Women-England

The Executive MBA programme office offers scholarship support for the female participant who has best demonstrated leadership potential and commitment to support the ongoing success of the Executive MBA programme. The scholarship is awarded to an appropriate female candidate on the basis of future professional and leadership potential as demonstrated by the quality of the essay submitted in support of the scholarship application, and a proven track record of success, (i.e. educational and professional background) demonstrated at the EMBA application and interview stages.

Fellowships For Women Scientists in Developing countries and Africa

The Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) with funds generously provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), has instituted a fellowship programme for female students from Sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDCs), who wish to pursue postgraduate training leading to a Ph.D., at centres of excellence in the South (developing countries), outside their own country.
The general purpose of the scheme is to contribute to the emergence of a new generation of women leaders in science and technology, and to promote their effective participation in the scientific and technological development of their countries.
Each fellowship will be offered for three years and will cover travel expenses, a modest monthly living allowance.

Canon Collins Trust South Africa scholarship programme

Canon Collins Trust awards postgraduate scholarships for southern AfricanStudents including Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe- to study in South Africa. All scholarships are for postgraduate study for one academic year. The Trust offers Full Scholarship for study in South Africa are for women of rural origin under the Graça Machel scholarship scheme.

ESMT MBA Scholarships Germany- European School of Management and Technology

ESMT- European School of Management and Technology- offers a number of merit-based scholarships for applicants to the the Full-time MBA program and the Executive MBA program.
Scholarships are allocated on the basis of intellectual excellence, evidence of personal and professional achievement and evidence of strong leadership potential as well as superior interpersonal skills.

Global Fund for Women Grants

The Global Fund for Women supports women's groups that advance the human rights of women and girls. The Organization strengthen women's right groups based outside the United States by providing small, flexible, and timely grants ranging from $500 to $30,000 for operating and program expenses. Applications are accepted throughout the year and grants awarded every three months.

Funds for Women Graduates Scholarship Grants for PhD/ Doctoral Study & Research

Funds for Women Graduates-FfWG offers Foundation Grants to help women graduates with their living expenses (not fees) while registered for study or research at an approved institution of higher education in Great Britain. The criteria are the proven needs of the applicant and their academic calibre. All Funds for Women Graduates grants are offered on a needs basis.

AAUW Scholarships and Grants for Women -Postgraduate Fellowship in USA

American Association of University Women (AAUW)Educational Foundation Fellowships and Grants is available for women who are not US citizens or Permanent resident in the United States. Priority is given to students from developing countries including African Students. AAUW has a long and distinguished history of advancing educational and professional opportunities for women in the United States and around the World. AAUW provided more than $3million in funding for more than 200 fellowships and grants to outstanding women and nonprofit organizations in the 2009-10 academic year.

IFUW International Scholarship for Women-Fellowships and Grants

The International Federation of University Women offers a limited number of international fellowships and grants to women graduates for postgraduate research, study and training.
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Distance Learning Scholarships for African Students at London South Bank University

Fully-funded distance learning scholarships are available for student from East and Southern African Commonwealth countries including Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Zambia- to study their Masters of Science (MSc) in Education for Sustainability at London South Bank University. 15 scholarships are awarded to students for 2010. Applications from women, who are underrepresented in leadership roles are give particularly preference.

Nestle MBA Scholarships for Women in Developing Countries

The Nestlé Scholarship for Women was first awarded in 1997 and was initiated by a group of IMD- Switzerland- MBA (Masters in Business Administration) participants who desired to encourage women to take the MBA courses. Preference are given to women from developing countries. Accepted female candidates must demonstrate financial need.

Forté Foundation MBA Fellows for Women

Forté Foundation offers fellowships to women who are pursuing a full-time, part-time or executive MBA education at participating business schools. Forté Foundation Fellowships are intended to increase the number of women applying to and enrolling in MBA programs. Students of all nationalities are eligible for consideration.

Deadline: 7 March 2011

The Open Society Foundations are recruiting instructors of academic writing in English to teach at the Open Society Scholarship Programs 2011 Pre-Academic Summer Program in Istanbul.

There will be two summer school sessions held in 2011: the first from July 1–27, the second from July 28–August 24. Both will be identical in structure and instructors can apply to teach at one or both sessions. Instructors will be expected to attend three days of preparation as a part of each session: July 1–3 for the first session, and July 28 –30 for the second session.

The summer school program is designed to prepare scholarship finalists from Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East and Southeast Asia for graduate studies or faculty exchange programs primarily in the UK or the U.S. The curriculum is an integration of academic writing courses with intensive seminar-style social science courses. All courses will be taught in English.

Participants in the summer school take one academic writing course (2 hours a day, 4 days a week) and one social science course (1.5 hours a day, 4 days a week). Academic writing instructors will work closely with social science instructors during the pre-program preparation to coordinate their course approach and writing/research assignments. Each course is expected to have no more than 12 students. The expected total number of students attending each summer school session is approximately 100. Students attending the summer school will be entering graduate programs in a range of disciplines, including law, social work, public policy, political science, human rights, international economic theory, gender studies, sociology, and development studies.

Eligibility

The Open Society Foundations are calling for experienced teachers of academic writing in English to submit a letter of interest, CV, and sample syllabus for an intensive 3.5 week course in academic writing. Please note that final syllabi and assignments will be worked out during the three day preparation in cooperation with the social science instructors. Preference will be given to individuals with significant experience teaching in a western academic institution with experience living/teaching in the participants' home regions (Central Asia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and South East Asia). Due to budgetary considerations, preference will also be given to those who are able to travel inexpensively and conveniently to Istanbul.

In addition, the Open Society Foundations are seeking an academic writing instructor with specific experience teaching legal writing to LLM students for the July session.
Responsibilities

Academic writing instructors will teach one course lasting 3.5 weeks for each summer school session. The total number of classes will be 12 per session, with the three last days of the program set aside for instructors to grade projects and work closely with social science instructors on final student evaluations.

Teaching hours: Approximately 2 teaching hours per day for four-days a week, plus a required minimum of 2 hours a day for student consultations.

Additional responsibilities: Instructors will be called upon and are encouraged to assist with extra-curricular activities and special events during the course of each session. They will also be expected to conduct additional lectures or facilitate presentations that orient students to graduate studies in the UK and the US.
Compensation

Instructors will receive $4200 USD per summer school session, round-trip travel to Istanbul, and accommodation. Applicants should specify which session they are applying for, or whether they are applying to teach at both.

Deadline

The deadline for application is March 7, 2011.

To Apply

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, sample syllabus and CV via email to NSPSummerSchool@sorosny.org.

Top-paying writing job(s):

This list is provided daily and entries are not recycled. We review all writing job/contest announcements and calls for submissions daily and include those offering decent payment to writers.

1. From Knit Today, topic: craft, pays $375 per work

2. From Full House, topic: holiday stories, pays $150 per work

3. From Craigslist, topic: technology and business, pays $120 per work

4. From Craigslist, topic: personal, pays $50 per work

5. From Thriving Family, topic: family, pays $50 per work

6. From BizReef, topic: academic, pays $16.67 per work

7. From Craigslist, topic: products, pays $15 per work

8. From Odesk, topic: beauty, pays $15 per work

9. From ProBlogger, topic: home and garden, pays $15 per work

10. From Problogger, topic: art, painting, pays $10 per work

Note: To make rates comparable, we have converted them to 400-word rate (standard one-page article, double-spaced). Please click on the site link to see actual pay rates.

Free Writing Competition(s):

1. American Heritage Scholarship Series, essay, prize: $10000, deadline: 31 March 2011

2. Creative Loafing's Annual Fiction Contest, short story, prize: $1000, deadline: 31 August 2011

3. Amazing Travel Stories, travel articles, prize: $500, deadline: 30 September 2010

4. 2011 Sylvia K. Burack Writing Award (for students), essay, prize: $500, deadline: 19 November 2010

5. Sylvan Writing Contest (for students), essay, prize: $300, deadline: 29 October 2010

6. Life of St. Francis of Assisi, essay, prize: $100, deadline: 29 October 2010

7. Tis The Season Writing Contes, short story, prize: $100, deadline: 30 September 2010

8. Christmas Writing Contest, short story, prize: $20, deadline: 23 November 2010

Note: All prizes are converted to US dollars or valued as such in case of prizes in kind. Check the site for actual prizes.

Paying Market(s):

1. The Mothman Files, short story, payment: $0.05 per word, deadline: open

2. Riddle Fence, short story, payment: $30 per story, deadline: open

3. The New Writer, short story, payment: $15 per story, deadline: 1 July 2011

4. Gloaming Magazine, short story/nonfiction, payment: $0.01 per word, deadline: open

5. The New Writer, poetry, payment: $7.5 per poem, deadline: open

6. Gloaming Magazine, poetry, payment: $5 per poem, deadline: open

Deadline: 18 April 2011

The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation at the University of California-Berkeley invites applications from unpublished as well as published writers-of-color--anyone dreaming of writing as a serious pursuit.

The Voices Workshop is a special gathering of writers who spend 1 week working with authors s of color. This workshop honors the literary traditions of heritage and culture and promotes the styles, voices, forms and concerns of writers-of-color and their connections to the literary world. All workshops are intimate gatherings of writers who take their writing seriously and are looking for an experience that will nurture them as writers; heighten their awareness of writing as a political, social and literary tool; and provide a community that supports each writer as they explore issues that require a profound sense of trust and professionalism.

The Workshops for 2011

This year, we offer workshops for everyone in: Poetry, Fiction Writing, Memoir, and Political Content in Story, Memoir and Poetry

For workshop descriptions, go here

Workshops for Alums in: Fiction, The Poetry Collection, Memoir.

We also offer two Residencies which are directed to writers who are interested in a one-on-one mentorship and concentrated writing time. The week is spent with the master writer who guides them through rewrites and toward a greater awareness of the writing process and their identities as writers.

When applying, specify the workshops you'd like to attend in order of preference. The workshops are limited to ten writers chosen on the quality of their work, their commitment to and their enthusiasm for the direction of the Voices mission.

All participants are encouraged to consider staying on campus in the housing facilities to deepen their experience of exchange.

Deadline: April 18, 2011

To be considered for admission to the Voices Writing Workshops please submit the following:

Poetry: 5 - 10 poems (not to exceed 20 pages)

Fiction Writing: up to 20 pages of short fiction

Memoir: up to 20 pages of a non-fiction narrative

Residency: up to 15 pages of a non-fiction, novel, short fiction or 5-10 poems (not to exceed 20 pages)

Political Content : up to 15 pages of any genre

Building a Poetry Collection: Up to 30 pages of poetry

All applicants should email their application manuscript (as an attachment) to apply apply@voicesatvona.org with your name and the workshop name in the title of the document. (please use .doc or .pdf) and include a page number as the footer.

For example: Abinaderalummemoir.doc

Completed Application: Please provide contact information, history, experience, vital statistics and personal essay in response to the questions, including information on scholarships

The application deadline is April 18, 2011--only completed applications are eligible for review--please contact us regarding late applications.
When you are accepted

Participants are notified of their acceptance by May 6 and have ten days to confirm their attendance.

Send a Deposit of $100.00 within ten days of notification. (Accepted participants will receive an invoice via email.)

Manuscripts to be used in the workshop will be uploaded to the virtual classroom site by May 23, 2011.

All fees are due by May 31, 2011.

Indicate if you will be in residence in campus housing, on application, so we may reserve a spot for you.

Scholarship recipients will be notified of their award amount and balance due. All fees are due by May 31, 2011 and will be made through PayPal.

Deadline: 1 December 2010

African Humanities Program
in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda
2010-2011

INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLICANTS

Eligibility criteria
• The proposed project must be in the humanities.
• It must propose a written scholarly product such as a dissertation or a monograph.
• Research and writing under terms of the fellowship award must be undertaken in Africa. AHP fellowships may not be used for travel outside the continent.
• Dissertation applicants must be nationals of a country in sub-Saharan Africa, residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, or Uganda, pursuing a doctorate in one of those countries. They must have begun to write the dissertation before applying and must be able to complete the dissertation during the fellowship year. Applicants pursuing doctorates at a university in South Africa are not eligible.
• Postdoctoral applicants must be nationals of a country in sub-Saharan Africa, residing and working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda. At the time of the submission, applicants must have defended the dissertation and must be no more than five years past the date of receiving the Ph.D. degree. Postdoctoral applicants may propose either a combination of research and writing, or writing only.

Fellowship awards
• The stipend for Dissertation-Completion Fellowships is $9,000.
• The stipend for Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowships is $16,000.
• The Residential Allowance is $5,000, and will be paid directly to the selected institute for advanced study hosting the AHP fellowship recipient. A list of residential sites currently available can be downloaded from the ACLS website at www.acls.org/programs/ahp or may be requested from ahp@acls.org . Residencies must be undertaken outside of the country in which the applicant maintains institutional affiliation and must last for a continuous period of not less than two months. No additional support in the form of residential allowance is available to support work at an applicant’s home institution.

Selection criteria
• The intrinsic interest and substantive merit of the work proposed
• The clarity of the intellectual agenda
• The record of achievement of postdoctoral scholars and the promise of Ph.D. candidates
• The contribution the work is likely to make to scholarship in the region and internationally
• The feasibility of the workplan

Preparing the application
All applicants should begin preparation early! Applications must be received by the African Humanities Program at the American Council of Learned Societies in New York no later than December 1, 2010 .

All applications must be typed (no handwriting, please). ACLS encourages the submission of applications via email in either Word (.doc or .docx files) or Acrobat (.pdf files). ACLS cannot application materials submitted in other file formats. Application forms may be downloaded in either Word or Acrobat. Application forms downloaded in Word may be typed on a computer, saved in a Word or Acrobat file and submitted via email attachment to ahp@acls.org . Applicants are asked to observe specifications for font and line-spacing and to maintain the page and space limits represented in the original application form. All applications must be signed and dated, or will be considered incomplete. Applications sent electronically must be named using the following file name format: Surname, Given Name(s).doc/docx/pdf.

Application forms downloaded in Acrobat or received via Air Mail may be printed, then typed on a typewriter and returned to ACLS via Air Mail or courier service. Applicants are asked to send their materials via Air Mail or courier service only if they are unable to do so via email; it is not necessary to send applications both electronically and on paper.

Application Elements
An application form consists of the following numbered elements, which should be submitted in the order specified here and on the application form. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

I. Applicant information – cover sheet

II. Personal history: education, research, teaching, and service (as applicable )

III. List of applicant’s publications [Maximum one page, 11 pt. type]

IV. Intellectual autobiography [Maximum one page, single spaced, 11 pt. type]
A description of the applicant’s academic career, detailing the ideas and experiences that have shaped and motivated the applicant’s intellectual work and plans for the future. The autobiography should conclude with a separate paragraph answering the question: “What do I see myself doing five years from now?”

V. Application essay [Maximum two pages, single spaced, 11 pt. type]

1. Main Thesis: The main argument or problematic guiding the proposed research and
writing.
2. Body: The research problem in more detail and a justification of the research focus and approach. What is already known about the problem and what more needs to be known?
3. Literature and sources: The proposed topic placed in the context of existing literature and as well as potential new sources. What will be the criteria for determining which sources are relevant? How will the project extend, modify, or challenge existing scholarship?
4. Methods: A detailed description of the methods to be used. How will they be deployed to address the main thesis or argument of the project?
5. Significance: An explanation of the importance of the proposed work to central issues in the discipline, to the African humanities, and to humanities scholarship in general.
6. Workplan: The concluding section of the essay, specifying a plan of work with a timeline for the research and/or writing during the fellowship period . How much has the applicant already accomplished on the project and how much remains to be done? What steps are anticipated during the fellowship period? What is the expected result? The workplan must specify the desired start and end dates for the fellowship period, ensuring that they fall within the period of the fellowship and form a period of work no less than 10 months in duration.

Letters of recommendation should arrive with applications at ACLS by the deadline, December 1, 2010. Applicants should send the forms to recommenders early, so that there is enough time to complete them. While applicants are responsible for making sure that the completed application has two appropriate recommendations, they must not delay sending all other parts of the application by the deadline, regardless of whether recommenders have sent their materials or not.

(Late letters of recommendation should be forwarded by the applicant to ACLS as soon as possible, in no case more than one month past the deadline.)

Submitting the application
Applicants are asked to follow these instructions carefully. Failure to do so may render an application late, incomplete, or otherwise ineligible for inclusion in the fellowship competition.

1. Applications may be submitted electronically (via email attachment) or on paper (via Air Mail or courier service) to the AHP/ACLS office in New York.

2. ACLS can accept only files sent in Word (.doc or .docx) or Acrobat (.pdf) formats. No other file formats are acceptable. Electronic submission is encouraged, with letters of recommendation and the applicant’s signature scanned as .pdf files. Electronic applications must be saved using a file name in the following format: Surname, Given Name(s).doc/docx/pdf.

3. Applications submitted electronically should be sent to ahp@acls.org, with all application materials included as attachments to one single email. If the files are too large to send in one email, applicants must create a series of smaller numbered files following the same file name format and send them in separate emails, making sure to note the total number of files transmitted.

The subject line of the email should include the applicant’s surname and the phrase “AHP application.” The body of the email should indicate the number of files attached. Application materials should be submitted only once, unless ACLS requests that and applicant resubmit. “Updated” or “revised” versions of the application will not be accepted once an application has been submitted.

4. Applications sent by Air Mail or courier service should be addressed to:

African Humanities Program
American Council of Learned Societies
633 Third Avenue, 8th floor
New York, NY 10017-6795, USA

5. IMPORTANT: Whether an application is submitted electronically or on paper, all applicants must send a separate email to ahp@acls.org requesting confirmation that the application file has been received and can be opened. Those who do not receive a reply within ten days confirming receipt should resend the confirmation request. Applicants should not resubmit application materials unless requested to do so.

Deadline: 1 February 2011

As part of Google's ongoing commitment to encourage women to excel in computing, we are pleased to announce the 2011 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship: Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, established by Google in 2004, honors Dr. Anita Borg, a computer science pioneer who dedicated her life to changing the way we think about diversity and technology.

In 2010, 350 students applied for the award, and among them, our first applicants and winners from Africa. Google awarded a total of two scholarships and two finalist positions to female sub-Saharan African students, from four universities in South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. You can find a complete list of all US, European, Middle Eastern and African scholars and finalists on the Official Google Blog.

We hope to make the 2011 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship as successful as it has been in the past. The scholarship is for female students studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Informatics or closely related technical fields. Every year scholarship finalists and recipients are invited to visit Google’s Engineering Centre in Zurich for an all-expenses-paid retreat: check out the YouTube video and web site. The deadline for applications is 1st February 2011.

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
  

Deadline: 1 March 2011

North Carolina A&T State University Creative Writing Program 2011

The Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka Prize in Poetry

Submission period opens: February 1, 2011. Postmark deadline: March 1, 2011 (packets must be received in-house no later than March 4.)

The Creative Writing Program @ North Carolina A&T State University announces its 2011
Sonia Sanchez and Amiri Baraka Prize in Poetry

We inaugurate this competition on the anniversary of the A&T Four Greensboro sit-in Movement and the onset of Black History Month. We seek to celebrate the courageous legacy of African-American literary achievement by honoring the legacies of two literary giants. Their literary works and personal life energies have been spent in service to the upliftment of black people worldwide and to the struggle for freedom, justice and equality for all oppressed peoples. Their scholarship. activism and poetry have reminded the world about the sacredness of human dignity and the need to preserve it. We are looking for poetry that seeks to honor the spirit of this tradition.

Poetry entries: (No more than 50 lines per poem, up to 3 poems per submission, any style.) Competition will be judge by a committee of poets and writers. (should the entries not be up to our standards, we reserve the right to withhold the prize in a given year.) The winner receives
$250 and publication on the NC A&T web site. Applicants must write in English. This competition is open to African-American writers only. Please send 4 sets of unpublished poems to the address below.

Please include the following per entry:

• Four typed copies of unpublished manuscript (author's name must not appear on manuscript.)
• One cover sheet with name, address, telephone, email, line count and titles of poems.
• $15 reading fee in check or money order, per submission, made payable to NCAT/CWP-Poetry Prize.

Please mail your submission to:

Creative Writing Program-Poetry Prize, NC A&T State University, 1601 E. Market St., Greensboro, NC 27411.

Dr. Anjail Rashida Ahmad, Director of the Creative Writing Program, NC A&T State University, 1601 E. Market St., Greensboro, NC 27411, Tel: 336.334.7771, ext. 2370, E-mail: arahmad@ncat.edu

Here are 14 writing contests, careers, calls for submissions, and other opportunities for African writers with submissions or applications due on the 14th / 15th of March, 2011:

Shortlist Announced for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2011 03/14/2011

14th Time of the Writer (South Africa) 03/14/2011

The South Africa Center for Creative Arts International Writers Festival 03/14/2011

Verizon Wireless's Black History Month Essay Contest (USA) 03/15/2011

Call for Submissions: New Media, Public Opinion and Democracy in the Arab and Muslim World 03/15/2011

Call for Filmmaker Application: 4th Talent Campus Durban 03/15/2011

Call for Essays: Go Africa, Go Germany Scholarship Exchange Programme 03/15/2011

Call for Articles on Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions and the Role of Communication Technologies (IJoC) 03/15/2011

Call for Submissions: The African Women's Journal 03/15/2011

Call for Applicants: ASAUK Writing Workshop for African Scholars (venue: Nigeria) 03/15/2011

Call for Submissions: IJMES Special Issue - Maghribi Histories in the Modern Era 03/15/2011

Call for Poetry: Whispers from Africa Anthology (WordArt Publishers) 03/15/2011

Call for Essays: Go Africa, Go Germany Scholarship Exchange Programme 03/15/2011

New Brew Media Short Story Competition (Nigeria) 03/15/2011

Deadline: 17 October 2010

Over the years, Total (E&P) Nigeria Limited has demonstrated high level of commitment towards the educational development of the Nigerian Students. This commitment has been demonstrated in several ways, one of which is the annual award of scholarships to deserving Nigerian students in secondary and Tertiary institutions as well as those in postgraduate studies. The programme is aimed at promoting academic excellence and qualitative manpower development in our host communities and the nation.

The company hereby invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for its 2010/2011 National Merit Scholarship Awards for undergraduate students currently in their 1st and 2nd year of studies in recognized Nigeria Universities.

WHO IS QUALIFIED TO APPLY

The NNPC/TEPNG Merit Scholarship Award is open to all matriculated Nigerian full-time degree students in their first/second year of studies in Nigeria Universities and who are NOT beneficiaries of any other scholarships. In addition to the above condition, applicants must show:
* Proof of SSCE or equivalent certificate,
* Proof of UME scores and admission to the course of study

Application forms must be completed online using the links (http://scholarships.totalsdd.com). Application begins on the 27th of September and closes on the 17th of October, 2010.

Please note that only short listed candidates would be contacted for the selection test.

Deadline: 31 January 2011

Call for the Arabic newspaper articles:

Pacific Pen Education and Publication Group proudly invites interested individuals, students and other residents of B.C to attend in this competition by sending their articles in the variety of topics to this Arabic Writing Competition.

The prizes will be awarded to the first 10 articles in an official ceremony and the best articles will be selected and published in the first issue of Al-Ghalam Arabic newspaper in B.C, and the selected writers will be invited to cooperate as editorial team of this newspaper.

This would be a great opportunity for those of you who have a passion for writing in any ground, as you are building a very valuable work history and increase your income in a legal and respectable way.

There is no registration fee. This does not interfere with your scholarship and would be a very outstanding record of your talents and skills.

You can challenge your talents and abilities in a friendly competition.

Your articles would be in Arabic, so you do not need to worry about your English. Although a good knowledge of English is an asset!

You can choose any of the following grounds and write an Arabic article for a newspaper.

· Student life (challenges and awards)

· Cultural issues (The Islamic Arabic culture in a non-Islamic society or etc.)

· Politics

· Religion

· Sports

· Islamic Art Vs. Western Modern Art

· Entertainment

· Education

· News

· For other topics please first check with us

Please submit your articles to the following link. You can also upload a related picture to your article. These articles and pictures MUST be your original work. You can send your articles via email to info@penlingua.net until January 31,2011.

Deadline: open

Call for Writers

Note: Feel free to re-publish this call for writers announcement in full elsewhere on the web to spread the word. Are you interested in writing for a global feminist blog? Gender Across Borders (GAB) is always looking for writers to comment on gender, sexuality, race, and class issues at local, national, and/or international levels. Previous blogging experience is not necessary. People of color and people from countries outside of the U.S. are strongly encouraged to apply. This is an unpaid opportunity. We do accept cross-postings with other blogs, but a link to our blog must be included in the article.

NOTE: These instructions are not for submissions to our series. For submitting a piece to one of our series, see here for more info.

GAB only takes submissions or well-researched pitches, so please follow these instructions carefully:

SUBMISSIONS

Send an email to info@genderacrossborders.com with the following:

1. Attach your article to the email in Microsoft Word format. We will not accept PDF files or articles copied in an email. Below is our criteria for what we accept as material for GAB, please follow carefully:

* Length: Should be between 300-1500 words.
* Language: This is an English-language blog. But because we are a global feminist blog, if you feel comfortable submitting a piece in another language, you may do so, but in addition you must provide a good English translation. All submissions will be read in the English version.
* Style: Even us GAB editors have different styles of writing, and so we encourage contributing writers to use their own styles as well. Remember, however, that this is an online blog and not an academic journal. As much as we love reading feminist scholarship, our blog appeals to a wider audience than just academics in the feminist field.
* Pictures and videos are strongly encouraged. For submissions, only include link to picture(s) and/or video(s) within Word. For example, within article: [insert picture of turkey from http://www.flickr.com/photos/abbietabbie/3061648816/].
* Properly cite sources to support your argument, including links. Within Word, include links within your text using the below format:
o Gender Across Borders
+ For example: The feminist blog, Gender Across Borders , included many stories about the Elizabeth Lambert ponytail scandal.

2. Subject line should read with your first and last name: “Firstname Lastname Submission” (for example: Emily Heroy Submission).

3. How you think your article will fit into GAB.

4. Your favorite post on GAB and why.

5. A brief bio of yourself in one paragraph (approx. 3-5 sentences) consisting of where you’re from, what you do for work, what you do for fun, etc.

An editor will review your article and get back to you within 7-10 days.

PITCHES

Send an email to info@genderacrossborders.com with the following:

1. A 3-5 sentence paragraph pitch (we will not accept anything shorter than 3 sentences) explaining the topic and your argument. Other things you can include in your pitch are: the importance of the topic (i.e. why it needs to be written about on GAB) and examples for your argument.

* Language: This is an English-language blog. But because we are a global feminist blog, if you feel comfortable submitting a pitch in another language, you may do so, but in addition you must provide a good English translation. All pitches will be read in the English version.

2. A writing sample from the past year in Word format or you can link to your current blog (we do not accept PDF files or samples copied into emails). If you wish to submit a pitch in a language other than English, see the above bullet marked “Language.”

3. Subject line should read with your first and last name: “Firstname Lastname Pitch” (for example, Emily Heroy Pitch).

4. Why you want to write this particular article for GAB and how you think this article will fit in with other GAB posts.

5. Your favorite post on GAB and why.

6. A brief bio of yourself in one paragraph (approx. 3-5 sentences) consisting of where you’re from, what you do for work, what you do for fun, etc.

An editor will review your pitch and get back to you within 7-10 days.

Questions/comments?

Please contact info@genderacrossborders.com if you have any questions or comments regarding the submission or pitch process.

More information here.

Deadline: 2 April 2011

Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship or Tuition Scholarship for African and Caribbean Writers

The Fairbanks award supports a writer living in Africa or the Caribbean to attend the Conference.

The Fairbanks award covers tuition, room, and board at the Conference; in addition, this special award covers travel expenses.

The application deadline for this particular award is April 2 (please note that this deadline is later than the usual Bread Loaf deadline for financial aid, which is March 1).

Admissions Overview

You may apply to the Conference by submitting a sample of original work and an application form. All applicants submit an application and their supporting materials online, except for fellowship candidates who complete an online application as well as mail a copy of their book(s) to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference office.

Acceptance is based on the strength and promise of the writing sample and the admission board's judgment that the applicant will benefit from the Conference. The workshops are designed to accommodate both published writers and those in the early stages of promising careers. For the 2010 Conference, we were able to accept 23 percent of general applicants; 6 percent of those who applied for financial aid received an award.

We cannot enroll anyone for less than the full ten days of the Conference. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age.

There is no application fee.

Application

All applicants submit an application and their supporting materials online, except for fellowship candidates who complete an online application as well as mail a copy of their book(s) to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference office.

To note: Applicants submit their top choices for workshop leader upon acceptance to the Conference, noting it on their deposit/confirmation form. Participants are assigned to a workshop based on our commitment to giving all attendees one of their choices.

We recommend that you print a copy of these directions so you can refer to them as you fill out the online application. The directions contain important details needed to fill in the title, file, and comments fields correctly.

Application directions followed by a link to the online application:

1. Fill in your contact information and create a password to use.

2. Writer name: use this space if you write under a penname.

3. Submission title: write in the title of the work you are submitting with your application. If it's an excerpt from a longer work, please note either the chapter title or title of the manuscript, either is acceptable. If you do not have a single title for your manuscript (for example, if you have a title for each poem or if you're submitting two or more shorter prose pieces), please create a title to use just for this Bread Loaf manuscript; the title field is limited so it may not be possible to enter the title of each poem or story. If you like, you can simply write in "poems for Bread Loaf application." Do not submit more than ten pages of poetry or 6,000 words of prose. (Fellows should note the title of their most recent book.)

4. Genre: choose the genre for your application from the drop-down list. If you are applying for financial aid, you can apply in only one financial aid category. (Descriptions of the financial aid categories can be found in the Admissions section. The FAQ page can help you decide which financial aid category is best for you.) If you are applying for financial aid and would like to be considered for a spot as a general contributor in the event that you do not receive an award, you will need to make a separate application in each category. Nevertheless, you will be able to use the same e-mail and password for both applications.

5. File: General contributors, work-study scholars, Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation scholars, and Middlebury Student scholars—upload your manuscript to your account. We are able to accept the following file formats: Word (.doc or .docx) and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). Fiction and nonfiction manuscripts cannot exceed 6,000 words and poetry manuscripts are limited to ten pages of poems. Your writing sample must be uploaded in one document. Please note: If your prose manuscript is excerpted from a longer project, please include a one-page synopsis at the start of your document (the synopsis can be single-spaced and does not count toward the 6,000-word limit).

Fellows—create and upload a cover page noting your name as well as the title, publisher, and publication date of the book under consideration with you application. Mail the book(s) to the Bread Loaf office as described on the Admissions page of this web site.

Tuition scholars—upload a PDF document that contains the following supporting materials: (1) a detailed list of publications (noting the title, publication, and publication date for each piece); (2) a sample of work published within the last three years (please send scans of the work as it appeared in the publication)—prose writers should send one published piece, and poets up to ten published pages; and (3) because tuition scholars are contributors in workshops, please also include a manuscript of unpublished work in the genre in which you are applying. (See the link to the manuscript guidelines on the left of this page.) You will be able to upload only one document to your online application. Before starting the process, please be sure all of the supporting materials are contained in one PDF document that follows the numerical order noted above. The correct order is very important.

Auditors—the online program requires that an applicant upload a document to the file field, so please upload a document that includes your answer to question number 5 described in the comments section below. In this case you need answer only questions 1 to 4 in the comments section.

6. Comments: use this field to address the following five items. Please number your answers 1 to 5.

1--Have you attended Bread Loaf before? If yes, please note the dates.
2--Have you attended other writing workshops? If yes, please note them here.
3--Do you have any publications in the genre in which you are applying? If yes, please list them here.
4--Information needed to make room assignments: please let us know if you plan to have a car on campus and note your age at the time of the Conference.
5--In 300-500 words, answer the question "What do you hope to gain from attending the Conference?" (Bread Loaf/Rona Jaffe applicants should use this section to illustrate how they meet the Bread Loaf/Rona Jaffe criteria. See the Admissions section for a description of the BL/RJ Scholarship.)

7. Click on Submit. (This button allows you to view the information you entered and make any changes needed.)

8. The program will send an automatic confirmation of receipt to your e-mail address. (If you do not receive this confirmation please be sure to contact the Bread Loaf office.)

Click here for the online application.

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
Phone: 802-443-5286
E-mail: blwc@middlebury.edu

Deadline: 1 December 2010

Get Involved With Issues that Affect Your Community Essay Contest

Cultivating Aspiring Leaders presents the fourth “Get Involved With Issues that Affect Your Community” essay competition. The essay contest winner will receive a $1000 scholarship! First through fifth place winners will each receive a FREE dedicated college admissions essay editor!

Contestants must meet the following requirements to compete in the essay competition (below):

1) African-American or Latino student
2) High school senior
3) 3.0 minimum GPA
4) Total household income $50,000 or less

Essay Question

Does social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) pose a risk to or create opportunities for teenagers’ futures?

Essays should be no longer than 750 words. All contestants must submit the following here (please scan/PDF item 1 below) by December 1, 2010, 5PM EST:

1) High school transcript
2) Digital photo
3) Essay (Microsoft Word format)
4) Optional: 2 minute video presenting your essay (Please upload the video onto YouTube.com and include a link to your video.)

Proof of household income may be required of semi-finalists.

Deadline: 15 October 2010

If you are an African journalist or aspirant journalist under 30 and would relish the chance to study on the continent’s premier Journalism Programme and then join the Reuters news team for 6 months work experience, read on.

With the FitzGerald Prize, Thomson Reuters is offering a scholarship to do a post graduate BA hons degree at the University of The Witwatersrand ’s Journalism Programme in Johannesburg followed by a stint in a newsroom in Africa.

Candidates must have an undergraduate degree or at least 3 years professional experience in journalism and must be nominated by a senior journalist, publisher or academic. They must be fluent in English. The scholarship will cover fees, accommodation and a modest living allowance.

Past winners of the prize have come from Malawi and Nigeria.

Candidates should submit a motivation letter, a CV, writing samples and at least 2 letters of nomination/reference by October 15, 2010 to fitzgeraldprize@thomsonreuters.com. Candidates will have to make themselves available for a written test and interview.

Deadline: 1 July 2011

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

Contact Information:

For inquiries: ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu

For submissions: ghosh@mail.sdsu.edu

Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/WJLS

Deadline: 15 December 2010

Celebrating Black History Through Literature: From the Harlem Renaissance Movement to Today edited by Gabrielle David, Managing Editor; Jennifer Bacon, Associate Editor

editor@phatitude.org

Poetry submissions are welcomed. For consideration, short stories, interviews and
essay submissions should be based on the following themes:

• The Harlem Renaissance Movement, Black Arts Movement
• Children's Literature,Urban Fiction, Hip Hop
• African American Contemporary Poetry & Literature
• Scholarship & Writing (Writing in the Academy)
• African American LGBT Literature
  

For more information, check out our submission guidelines at www.phatitude.org

Deadline: 1 October 2010

Center for Migration and Refugee Studies
American University in Cairo

Call for submissions: Essay Competition for Young Scholars Topic:

The politics of climate change and population movement/displacement in the Middle East and North Africa

Background:
Recent World Bank research has suggested that the: Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one of the regions that is most vulnerable to climate change on account of the highest level of water scarcity in the world, a significant dependence on climate-sensitive agriculture, the concentration of populations and economic activity in flood-prone urban coastal zones, and the presence of conflict-ridden areas in which climate induced resource scarcity could escalate violence and political turmoil even beyond the region's boundaries. In short, the MENA region is very vulnerable in agriculture, urban development and important water management that will be affected by climate change and drought. For example, it is estimated that some 80 million to 100 million people in the MENA region will not have sufficient access to water by 2025, and the recent tension over outdated treaties between countries relying upon the Nile has been a serious concern. The potential for migration and displacement as a consequence of climate change and how it might be managed needs to be better understood, particularly in relation to possible future insecurity and instability. There is a need for a better understanding of what dangers and remedies lie ahead to avoid conflict and develop peaceful population adaptations to climate change in the region.*

Eligibility:

Advanced PhD candidates or recent PhD graduates (up to 2 years), with citizenship or permanent residence in one of the MENA countries. The scholars are not required to reside in MENA at the time of writing the paper. To foster and encourage refugee and migration scholarship in the region, and to reward upcoming scholars in the field. Policy research paper, 25-30 pages (1.5 spaced, 12 pt font), of publishable standard.

Submissions: To enter the contest, please send a CV and a short abstract to CMRSresearch@aucegypt.edu to determine eligibility.

Timeline:
Abstracts will be approved and returned to contestant.

1 October 2010: Deadline for submission of expression of interest and short abstract

31 December 2010: Deadline for submission of final draft

15 January 2011: Committee selects 3 winners; each will be awarded USD 1,000

Deadline: 31 March 2011

THE JOMO KENYATTA FOUNDATION

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation is a Company Limited by guarantee and having no share capital. It is a leading educational publisher established by the Government of Kenya in 1966 and mandated to advance education and knowledge through competitive publishing and provision of scholarships. The latter are extended to bright needy secondary school children.
In pursuit of its mission and guided by the vision of being the top publishing house in Eastern Africa and a leading scholarship provider in Kenya, The Foundation is looking for suitably educated, trained, experienced and self-driven and motivated individuals with exceptional creativity, enthusiasm and energy to fill the following vacant positions.

JOB TITLE: EDITOR II, HUMANITIES (One Position)

JOB REF: JKF/HR/PUB/2011/003

Reporting to Senior Humanities Editor, the position holder will work closely with various authors of respective book titles to ensure that books are of high standards and relevant to the target market.

Key Responsibilities

1. Assesses manuscripts for content and relevance to established lists.
2. Copy–edits manuscripts and other projects as assigned
3. Designs manuscripts for page layout and illustrations
4. Co-ordinates writing workshops
5. Prepares author-publisher contracts in consultation with section editors.
6. Commissioning authors
7. To perform any other relevant duty assigned by the Publishing Manager

Minimum Requirements

1. Bachelors Degree in Education (CRE/History& Government) or its equivalent from a recognized university.
2. A post graduate Diploma in Mass Communication
3. At least 4 years teaching experience in a secondary school or 2 years relevant experience in a publishing house.
4. Be proficient in Ms-office suite.
5. Excellent communication, negotiation, inter-personal relations, team building, leadership and organizational skills.

The positions are permanent and pensionable and a competitive remuneration package will be offered to the successful candidates. Interested applicants should submit their applications together with current curriculum vitae (CV) with details of their current employer, remuneration, names and contact addresses of three referees (one of whom must be the current or last employer) and copies of academic certificates. Kindly address your application to:

The Managing Director
The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation,
P. O. Box 30533 – 00100,
NAIROBI
Email: hram@jomokenyattaf.com

The closing date for receipt of applications is 31st March, 2011. Canvassing by or on behalf of any applicant will lead to automatic disqualification of the applicant concerned. Only short listed candidates will be contacted. Any applicant who does not hear from us by 30th May 2011 should consider him/herself unsuccessful.

The Jomo Kenyatta Foundation is an equal opportunity employer.