My Mind Words Paper [2011-07-03] 

  • Call for Submissions: Writers Project of Ghana Anthologies

    Deadline: 20 September 2011The Writers Project of Ghana intends to publish two anthologies of Ghanaian writing in 2012. There will be one anthology of poetry and another of short stories. You are welcome to be a part of this.Poetry: Send in five poems on any theme to poetry@writersprojectghana.com . Maximum length of any poem is 1…

  • Deadline: 1 August 2011SOCIETY OF MOVIE SCHOLARS (SoMS) in collaboration with NATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO CENSORS BOARD (NFVCB) and ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA THEATRE ARTS PRACTTIONERS (ANTP) INVITES THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF AFRICAN REGIONAL MOVIESBackgroundAfrican movies…

  • Enter IPC’s Free Book Contest and win a copy of FIRST GONG.Independent Poets Community is giving poets a chance to win a copy of FIRST GONG each month in 2011 (LOPR Season 2) by entering for the FREE BOOK POETRY CONTEST. FIRST GONG is the the anthology of poems from Season One of Loudthotz Open Poetry Reading.To enter for the free…

  • Date: 14 July 2011 (6:30-8:30pm)IPC AND THE LOUDTHOTZ OPEN POETRY READINGSIPC believes strongly that “everyone can write poetry...,” and we demonstrate this faith by creating opportunities and avenues for published and unpublished poets – closet poets, hobbyists, career poets, poetry performers, and peaceful activists – to express…

  • Deadline: 26 August 2011New U: News Entrepreneurs Working Through UNITY is a competitive program for journalists of color who want to become entrepreneurs. Funded by The Ford Foundation, the New U Fellowship supports and helps grow the creative ideas of participants through a national “startup camp” which will be held October 17-1…

  • Deadline: 30 July 2011The US Embassy cultural affairs section is pleased to announce an Arabic language essay contest for young Egyptian people beginning July 8th.This I Believe, is an international organization engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. More than 90.000 …

  • Deadline: 22 July 2011COSA Media, which publishes trade magazine RISKSA (www.risksa.com), is seeking to recruit an assistant editor to join its busy team. This is a senior position and he or she will have a passion for business journalism, feature writing, analysis and news gathering. They will be able to hit the ground running an…

  • Smpremiumwriters is a branch of UK based firm in Nairobi. 80% ofthe research projects come directly from UK and 10-15% from US. Our contact is directly with clients and have a strong base of clientele. Weoffer clients utmost quality standards with distinction and international standard academic levels. Currently we are looking to …

  • We are writing to announce and solicit your expertise in the final stages of a new encyclopedia, to be published by the eminent reference publisher, M.E. Sharpe, entitled "Native Peoples of the World". The book is under the general editorship of Steven L. Danver of Walden Universityand Mesa Verde Publishing, who is working with a …

  • Date: 13 July 2011 (4:30-7:30pm)On Wednesday 13th July 2011, Nigeria and Africa's only Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, dramatist, poet, novelist and social crusader, Professor Oluwole Soyinka will be 77.In view of these, we have dedicated the July edition of Arojah Royal Theatre's monthly PLAY READING PARTY for the celebration …

  • Readings: Lola Shoneyin, Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo and Odili Ujubuonu at Pit Theatre (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)

    Deadline: 11 July 2011On Monday, July 11, 2011, Lola Shoneyin, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo and Odili Ujubuonu will read at Pit Theatre in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. The event will take off at 3.00 p.m. There will also be music and poetry performances. It will be an exciting afternoon.Lola Shoneyin's first novel, The Secret Li…

  • Art is a global phenomenon. Through art people remake themselves and their worlds, while commenting on their values and beliefs. Making, using and learning from artworks is fundamental to human social life and sensory engagement.In the context of the reassessment of the collecting, display and interpretation of cultures, the study…

  • SUMMARY: The main responsibility is to write accurate, interesting and readable features, snippets and other copy for the publication, online, digital and social media platforms, ensuring that all text is in Good Marie Claire style and tone.ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:To write original material and, when necessary, promo…

  • Do you have a communications/journalism qualification? Are you knowledgeable about the mining industry and passionate about trade, technical and industry writing? Are you interested in the exciting world of online publishing? Well this is the job for you!Your duties would include:1. Source and select breaking stories and constantl…

  • Deadline: 16 December 2011This is a call for materials for a biographical book on the life, work and legacy of David Kisule Kato the deceased Ugandan human rights defender for s3xual (and other) minorities. The biography is being developed and written by researchers in the Law, Gender and S3xuality Research Project of the Faculty …

  • Deadline: 31 October 2011Entries for this year's Bloody Parchment short story competition are open. The first prize includes one round of professional editing of a novella or novel-length work. Bloody Parchment will publish an anthology of the top 13 finalists, to be released in anticipation of the 2012 SA HORRORFEST.Submission gu…

  • Managing editor for publications, newsletters and websites under the Topco Media stable, as well as editor for the Top Women in Business and Government under the direction of the group editor.Oversee all phases of the production process ensuring production happens in a timely manner, coordinating efforts with other editors, design…

  • Date: 7 July 2011This is to invite you to what promises to be an exciting Interactive Session of Book Readings, Drama and Speeches on the theme: The Link Between Literature And Politics organised by the Centre For Black And African Arts And Civilization (CBAAC ) in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies, University of…

  • Position Title: WritersHonorarium paid on a per article basis dependent on word countJamestown is seeking writers for its China Brief and terrorism publications. Jamestown seeks Arabic speakers to contribute occasionally to its terrorism publications. Those based overseas are encouraged to inquire.Please send a CV and writing samp…

  • Spotlight International is a monthly magazine aimed at the entire black race around the world, with particular focus on Africans. The magazine is published in London in a glossy, broad-page format. Mainly, it features profiles and biographies of highly successful people in all fields of human endeavour around the world. Our aim is…

  • Deadline: 8 July 2011Youth, Media and the Politics of Change in North Africa: Negotiating Identities, Spaces and PowerGuest Editor: Loubna H. Skalli (American University, Washington D.C.)This special issue of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication solicits theoretical and empirical papers on “Youth, Media and the Pol…

  • If you wish to submit an article for publication, please follow the guidelines below. Send queries to articles@azizahmagazine.comQUERY GUIDELINESAZIZAH is the magazine for the contemporary Muslim woman. This educated woman is confident about her Islamic faith and continually seeks to improve all aspects of her life. AZIZAH magazin…

  • Deadline: 31 July 2011The Film Factory is putting out a nation-wide call for feature film screenplays. We are looking for any language, any genre and any budget screenplays for consideration by Head of Development, Henk Pretorius.If you have a screenplay but no production platform, this is potentially a great opportunity for colla…

  • Deadline: 1 August 2011The program, which runs from mid-March to early September, is offered annually to print and online journalists between the ages of 25 and 35. The class of 2011 includes seven journalists from Afghanistan, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Korea and Yemen.Applicants from the following countries are elig…

  • Job description• Generate and implement ideas for beauty content for both print and digital, in consultation with the editorial director and the managing editors.• Work across daily, weekly and monthly beauty digital content.• Contribute to beauty supplements.• Keep abreast of the latest international trends.• Contribute additiona…

  • Deadline: 5 August 2011Health Intelligence is a dynamic South African consumer health magazine that has become one of the best selling titles in its genre. It supplies well-researched dietary, lifestyle and sophisticated supplementation advice, including the latest scientific discoveries on depression, stress, libido, heart health…

  • ITWeb online is looking for an enthusiastic hard news journalist with a passion for technology and a keen interest in the IT and telecoms sector breaking news.The successful candidate will also be engaged in developing new media capabilities: combining text with video and audio; interacting with the readers; engaging relevant indu…

  • Report editor (Mystery shopping) required for Cape Town area and surrounds. Training provided and reports are submitted electronically. The successful candidate must:* Have excellent language abilities.* Have a critical eye for detail.* Be computer literate and have access to own computer/laptop and internet.* Be deadline driven* …

  • Edgemead educational software firm would like to employ a person with office computer skills to create early literacy curriculum material for our program. Must be quite competent with normal office-type use of a PC. We will train for the use of our software.The work will consist of writing or editing controlled vocabulary text sto…

  • Deadline: 15 October 2011Contributions to this volume critically assess the dynamics of poverty in Uganda within wider theoretical debates of how poverty gets defined and addressed. Uganda's public policy is assessed in terms of how it actually works and why some approaches succeed while others fail. The policy process can be exam…

  • Deadline: 31 December 2011Seeking article submissions that discuss the relationship between African American poetry and ecocriticism for a scholarly anthology. Selection of African American poetry may cover any time period, ranging from slavery to the Reconstruction era, early twentieth century/Jim Crow, early twentieth century/mo…

  • Deadline: 14 September 2011Dr. Neerja Arun invites submissions to a collection of critical essays on Fourth world writings in English after 1947 until 1990. At the inaugural meeting of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP), George Manuel introduced the concept of The Fourth World, a phrase employed to describe indigenous …

  • Deadline: 30 September 2011Research articles in this issue will take stock of the worldwide histories of performance and criticism to uncover any blind spots in current methodologies to study the theoretical and artistic implications of Shakespeare and the cultures of diaspora, the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Commo…

  • Deadline: 8 July 2011Main purpose of the roleTo assist the editor of Your Pregnancy Magazine in the production of the magazine, managing the editorial team. Stands in for editor as and when required.Key Responsibilities• Contribute to the planning and writing of features for the magazine as well as any special supplements• Co-ordi…

  • Call for Literary Works/ Non-Fiction: Itch Magazine (South Africa)

    Deadline: 31 July 2011Artists working in any medium and writers expressing themselves in any form or genre are invited to submit work for the ninth issue of ITCH Online. The "theme" is:Intertwined arms, self-embracing, reaching across, beyond and back again. A race track - for formula one Ferraris or electric toy cars? A number, d…

  • Deadline: 7 July 2011To settle a bar bet, Hemingway wrote the following short story. For Sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. He called it his best work. And it proves that you don’t have to blather on endlessly to write something powerful.It is the inspiration for our June exercise. But we’ve decided to go easy on you. We’re happy to se…

  • Developing Markets, a division of Media24, has two vacancies for a Chief Copy Editor for True Love and Move magazine based in Sandton. This person will report directly to the Editors.The successful candidate will be a team player with excellent English language and communication skills and a positive attitude. He/She will manage a…

  • New Book: "Dreams at Dawn" Anthology of Short Stories from Fidelity Bank's International Creative Writing Series (Nigeria)

    Dreams at Dawn - stories from Fidelity Bank's 2010 International Creative Writing Workshop series was launched on June 24 at the Lagos Resource Center. Edited by Helon Habila, Tsitsi Dangarebga and Madeleine Thien, the book contains 14 short stories including James Eze’s The Last Good Man in America, Eghosa Imasuen's et Hair, Nnad…

  • A senior member of the team that represents HL in Johannesburg. The Senior Editor conceptualizes and supplies ideas, writes a substantial amount of copy for the HL main book and oversees, manages and contributes to the HL website.Senior EditorTo actively source, identify and contribute ideas for the monthly features meetings. Thes…

  1. Job Opening: Journalist/ Copy Editor for Trademax Publications (publisher of SA Roofing and Affordable Housing)
  2. Job Opening: Resource Editor for Child Magazine (South Africa)
  3. Job Opening: Features Editor for Child Magazine (South Africa)
  4. Job Opening: Editor for Coco + Creme Magazine for Women of Color (Atlanta)
  5. Job Opening: Publisher/ Managing Editor for Fleet Street Publications (South Africa)