My Mind Words Paper [2011-09-18] 

  • A national software development company requires an experienced PR Writer/Marketer to join their team on a permanent basis, based in their Cape Town office. Salary is negotiable and commensurate with experience.JOB DESCRIPTION:To be fully responsible for conceptualizing and writing newsworthy articles for publishing through PRWeb …

  • Date: 17 December 2011Oracle Books and Orange Academy with the support of CORA (Committee for Relevant Art) present EDIBLE BONES, a classic and exciting coming of age story by Unoma Azuah.Some of the sponsors for the event include Triple Fun Book Club, Flash Concepts, Reading Bridges, Biggo Haulage System, and CKC Investment Limit…

  • We have a very large project that we need to have translated starting today. We have documents that total 80,000 words but they are in batches. We need to find some freelancers that we can add to our existing staff. It is very general material with no particular industry or technical style. Very simple. Please email us IMMEDIATELY…

  • Deadline: 30 September 2011Salary: R221 058 per annum (Ref. 80361/12)Requirements: Applicants must be in possession of an appropriate Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification and/or appropriate experience.Competencies: • Knowledge, understanding and good grasp of international relations • Experience in communication, more spe…

  • An upmarket hotel is urgently looking for a Group Content Editor to oversee group content web content, execute content strategy across the various medias in the hotel. Applicants with a degree in journalism and marketing with creative writing and min 5-6yrs experience in the hospitality/gaming industry will be considered . Mail yo…

  • Deadline: 30 October 2011Consistent with its mandate to “encourage and facilitate the understanding of international affairs and of the circumstances, conditions and attitudes of foreign countries and their peoples”, the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA) is pleased to announce the inauguration of an Annual Essay C…

  • Date: 24 September 2011Do you have books you're selling?Let the Writers Association of Botswana sell for you at the Botswana Amateur Arts Festival on Saturday 24th September at Maru-a-Pula in Gaborone. Bring your books between 9 and 10am and collect remainders between 4 and by 5pm. Ask for the WABO stall/table or call 71822516 on …

  • A small publishing company seeks an editorial assistant to help with the publication of annual directories to start immediately for a contract period until mid-December.Tasks will include the updating of the mail lists and directory information, contacting clients for information and other tasks as required. Successful candidates …

  • Deadline: 30 September 2011The deadline for the FAIR Awards 2011, 30 September, is approaching. Hurry to enter your excellent work, and hurry also to recommend your brave editor who did not crumble when important people appealed to him or her to silence a story. For those brave editors, there is the Editors' Courage Award (US$ 350…

  • Deadline: 30 September 2011USAID and the Population Reference Bureau (PRB) invite applications to a first-of-its-kind regional journalism workshop designed to improve expertise in analyzing health-related survey and scientific data. Increasingly, journalists must learn to use statistical and survey data to provide accurate picture…

  • Dates: 31 October - 2 November 2011Power Reporting has something for everyone – new skills for old hands, an introduction to investigative journalism for those at the start of their careers, specialist speakers on current topics for specialist writers.Venue: FNB Building, University of the Witwatersrand, West CampusDates: Monday 3…

  • Are you a translator or poet passionate to bring innovative Arabic poetry to English readers? Submit your work to info@tribes.org. Chosen work will be published in the 2012 issue of the “A Gathering of the Tribes" Magazine, a NY-based art and literature publication.Via: leadersot.orgContact Information:For inquiries: info@tribes.o…

  • Deadline: 14 November 2011Who can participate: Students and young professionals aged 18-30.Length and language: 2,000-3,000 words. All essays must be in English.For winners: For each category, first, second, and third place authors will receive a $1,000 honorarium, and CIPE will publish 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place essays.CategoriesDem…

  • Deadline: 24 September 2011All lovers of literature are invited to participate in a literature forum led by Prof. Tom Odhiambo, Prof. Georg Verweyen and Tony Mochama aka Smitta Smitten. Please send your pieces (poems, short stories, essays) to amkaspace@yahoo.com if you would like them to be critiqued.Time: 10:00am - 1:00pmLocatio…

  • Deadline: 28 February 2012Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) invites young people aged 15 years and below to participate in the 2012 International Letter Writing Competition for Young People.The topic is: “Write a letter to an athlete or sports figure you admire to explain what the Olympic Games mean to you”.Competition Rules are a…

  • Deadline: 7 October 2011The Fourth High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness (HLF-4) will take place in Busan, Korea, from 29 November to 1 December 2011. The HLF-4 presents a unique opportunity for achieving better aid and development through more effective, harmonized cooperation among governments, civil societies and the private se…

  • Deadline: 30 September 2011EligibilityAny writer who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter the competition. Previously entered manuscripts that have been revised may be resubmitted. Writers are still eligible if they have published a volume of poetry or any work in a language other than Englis…

  • THE Abuja chapter of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA Abuja) in what could be her last major activity before the 30th Anniversary International Convention it is scheduled to host in October, will play host to the 2011 NLNG Literature Prize finalist nominee, Chinyere Obi-Obasi to special edition of its monthly Guest Writer …

  • Date: 1 - 6 November 2011The successes of the Ghana International Book Fair over the years have largely been attributed to the active participation of international visitors particularly Nigerian Publishers and printers and publishers from India, and the contributions and commitments by some individuals and organisations. Institut…

  • UBA Foundation National Essay Competition (Nigeria)

    Deadline: 31 October 2011UBA Group, the African financial services group, though its corporate Social Responsibility arm; UBA Foundation, has unveiled plans for a national essay competition for secondary schools in Nigeria .The essay competition, to be known as the ‘UBA Foundation National Essay Competition in Nigeria ’, is schedu…

  • MoAfrika 'a Mokgathi Live at State Theatre Night of the Poets (South Africa)

    Date: 21 September 2011Night of the Poets - Live and raw!Local poetic talents showcase their art of words to a backdrop of reggae beats on 21 September celebrating heritage month, featuring Mo'Afrika and 5th Groove. TICKETS R50 Computicket and at the Door.Where: State Theatre, 320 Pretorius Street, Tshwane, Gauteng, South AfricaCo…

  • Freedom in Speech is seeking stories, writers, contributorsThe Board of Freedom in Speech is calling on interested persons to apply for opportunitties to be writers and journalists for the sophomore Kenyan LGBT news source - Freedom In Speech.The website is a collaboration of Gay Kenya and AFRA-KENYA, two of Kenya's LGBT groups. G…

  • Deadline: 25 September 2011Guerilla Basement is calling for short fiction entries. This particular call for entries is in commemoration of “Cancer Awareness” month in October.The aim is to explore the use of certain themes in both creative and experimental ways in literary fiction.Submissions should be based on the theme of “Cance…

  • Date: 17 November 2011Goethe Institute, City Hall, LagosAs part of its13th Lagos Book & Art Festival which holds from the 18th till the 20th of November 2011, Committee For Relevant Art (CORA) hereby announces its plans for the 2nd Publishers’ Forum which will hold on the 17th of November as a part of the 13th Lagos Book & Art Fes…

  • Date: 1 October 2011The University of Johannesburg's Doornfontein arts and culture office and its poetry group, Afro Alphabets will be hosting its First annual Izimbbongi Poetry festival on the 1st of October 2011. Happening at 12h00 midday at the Con Cowan Theatre on the Auckland park Campus,the festival boasts with line up of ov…

  • Date: 24 September 2011The budding poet, Gimba Kakanda, takes his turn at the highly-acclaimed Guest Writer Session on September 24, 2011. An initiative of the Abuja Writers Forum (AWF), now in its third year, the event holds at the Pen and Pages Bookstore, White House Plaza, Plot 79, Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent, Wuse 2, Abuja and…

  • Date: 24 September 2011This month, we would be hosting four authors, all male. The fourth edition of Book n Gauge, hosted by PulpFaction Book Club in collaboration with Wordsmithy Media and Debonair Bookstore, is scheduled to hold on 24th September, 2011 @ Debonair Bookstore, 294, Herbert Macaulay Way, Sabo, Yaba. 2pm - 5pm. It is…

  • Date: 22 September 2011The Play Reading Party 8 has been set aside for the celebration of this year's INTERNATIONAL PEACE DAY. To this end, we have chosen a play and a playwright that best suit this need.Therefore, Play Reading Party 8 will feature no less a personality than the versatile theatre director, choreographer and academ…

  • Well established community newspaper group has vacancies available for journalist / sub-editor / proofreader to join our Head Office.We are looking for an excellent writer, who will function as sub-editor, proof reader.Two attributes are essential: your English must be utterly superb and you need to understand that deadlines are s…

  • Deadline: 30 November 2011The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers recognizes outstanding young poets and is open to high school sophomores and juniors throughout the world. The contest winner receives a full scholarship to the Kenyon Review Young Writers workshop. In addition, the winning poem will be published in The Ke…

  • Deadline: 30 September 2011To celebrate the publication of the sixtieth volume of Agricultural History Review in 2012, the Review announces an prize essay competition open to rural historians in Britain, Europe and internationally. Three prizes will be offered, one of £500 and two of £250. One prize will be reserved for an essay i…

  • Interested in a refreshing career in Media? Renowned International Media House searching for Journalists.Must be/have:At least a Bachelor’s degree holder.Speak English as fluently as a first language speaker.At least two years experience working in TV.Excellent writing skills and a flair for storytelling.Professional presentation …

  • Deadline: 25 September 2011 (from 15 August 2011) for North Africa onlyESSAY COMPETITION: Looking at ICTs and agriculture in Africa through the eyes of women and the youth. Enter the competition to win EUR 1000 and join NEPAD’s 10th Anniversary!The New Partnership for Africa‟s Development (NEPAD) Agency and the Technical Centrefor…

  • Call for Book Manuscripts: Melrose Books and Publishing (Nigeria)

    Melrose Books and Publishing was conceptualized in February 2010 and began operation in January 2011. It was founded on the basic principle of introducing new ways of publishing through innovative and modern methods of creating content that would make learning easier, interactive and interesting to the reader or user.In addition t…

  • Deadline: 29 October 2011You may be interested in our earlier call for submission of poems in Naija (Nigerian pidgin). This is to publish an anthology of poems in the language shortly. Have your thoughts expressed in Naija langwej.Try your hands in writing a minimum of 3 poems but maximum of 5 in Naija and send them to edbabor@gma…

  • Date: 26 September 2011Internationally acclaimed literary figures Chinua Achebe, Gabriel Okara, and Brenda Marie Osbey will discuss "Voice and Memory in the Poetic Imagination" on Monday, September 26, 2011 at 4 p.m. in the George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space, Churchill House, 155 Angell St. It is free and open to the public…

  • Deadline: 11 January 2012The Black Diaspora Conference is an annual interdisciplinary forum bringing together scholars and thinkers to reflect on issues and concerns related to people of African descent. The objective of the series is to promote and expand public awareness, scholarship and research in the area of Black Diaspora st…

  • Deadline: 31 October 2011We are now accepting submissions of art, fiction, poetry, and nonfiction for Issue 8 to be launched December 2011.We welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and art.No previously published works are accepted.Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please alert Superstition Review to a piece…

  • Date: 27 September 2011Do you have an idea for a book, a screenplay you would love to be writing, a project you are struggling with, a novel in progress or an unfinished manuscript?Here’s a course designed to rev you up for a challenging writing project – or, more simply, to help you re-engage with your creative self.Who will bene…

  • Date: 10 - 11 September 2011Following up from an exciting Memoir Workshop in February, HELENA KRIEL is back in South Africa to teach a SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP.HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO WRITE A MOVIE SCRIPT? This two-day workshop - WITH HELENA KRIEL - will focus on the craft used by industry professionals writing in Hollywood.PROGRAMM…

  • When the Women Took over Book N Gauge (Nigeria)

    It was a seraphic gathering for ‘society of the Quill’ at the Debonair Bookstore on Saturday, August 27th 2011. Pulp Faction Club organized an event tagged Book ‘n’ Guage which hosted some eclectic women writers in Nigeria for a book reading session and networking to the delight of the audience. There was also rendition of songs b…

  • Date: 24 September 2011The Miriam Tlali Reading & Book Club invites the public to engage “The Poverty of Ideas, South African Democracy and the Retreat of Intellectuals” with authors Leslie Dikeni and William Gumede, 24th September 2011, African Literature Bookshop, 191 Louis Botha Avenue, and Corner 8th Street, Orange Grove, from…

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