My Mind Words Paper [2012-03-25] 

  • Deadline: 1 February 2013The Joan Shorenstein Center offers a one-semester fellowship at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Fellows are domestic or international journalists, scholars and/or policymakers who are interested in the influence of the press on public policy and politics.The fellowships offer a unique opportunity f…

  • Deadline: 31 July 2012Contest Theme: How can India and Africa compete, collaborate and co-create the future on Environmental issues?The contests will be open in the following languages: • English • French • Portuguese • Spanish • Arabic • Hindi • SwahiliCONTEST CATEGORIES1. Eastern Africa*Open to citizens of United Republic of Tan…

  • Deadline: 1 October 2012Judged by Dr Chris Drake, long-time professor of Japanese literature at Atomi University in Japan. No entry fee.PRIZES1. The winning poem will be published, together with a detailed critique, in the 2013 issue of Journal of Renga & Renku. All entries will be considered as content for inclusion in the journa…

  • Deadline: 12 April 2012South African wine writers are invited to enter the 4th Annual South African Wine Writers Award.Articles written during 2011 and published in South Africa or on a recognized South African website, will be considered.The wine writing community of South Africa is invited to submit one wine-related article per …

  • Deadline: 16 April 2012Flint Studio is on the search for a creative, web-savvy content writer with lots of flair. Our online marketing team is growing we need someone to produce hot content for clients.Responsibilities include:Write, edit and proof copyCreating engaging content for a variety of platforms across a variety of indust…

  • Date: 3 April 2012You are cordially invited to presentation of the Poetry Segment of the Lagos Black Heritage Festival, LBHF, on Tuesady (April 3, 2012) at the Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos, at 6pm.The theme of the Segment is BLACK MEDITERRANEAN: THE AFRO-ITALIAN CONNECTIONS, and it features a collection of 16 Nigerian and 16 …

  • Date: 7 April 2012Dr. Wale Okediran, a co-winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa, will be doing a Book Reading on April 7, 2012 at Marietta, Georgia, USA at 6 p.m. Venue is FAD Restaurant, 3565 Austell Road Marietta, Georgia 30008.His Excellency, Hon. Ambassador Geoffrey Teneilabe, Consulate General at the Niger…

  • Date: 31 March 2012BOOK N GAUGE X: CALL IT WHAT YOU WANT. XPECT ANYTHING!X is that figure in mathematical calculations that you have to find. X stands to be filled in by you. For the tenth edition of Book N Gauge, we leave you come for Book N Gauge X and decide what to call it, what to make of it. From our end, we are so sure that…

  • CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTSWe are looking for authors to submit manuscripts in the following areas: Entrepreneurship, Sales & Marketing, Personal Growth, Health, Inspirational, Biographies & Autobiographies, Guidance and Counseling, Relationship, Marriage and Family Life, IT and Life Skills books for pre-school and Primary school etc.GET…

  • Deadline: 20 April 2012Queenex Publishers limited is one of the fastest growing indigenous publishers in Kenya, specialising in self-help and general books. We distribute books for Mkuki na Nyota (Tanzania) Publishers, Fountain (Uganda) Publishers Pambazuka (UK) Press and several self-published authors.We have an exciting career o…

  • Deadline: 14 May 2012The Scripps Howard Foundation Semester in Washington internship program brings two international students per year to Washington, D.C., to work at the Scripps Howard News Service for a semester. The internship is designed to give international students an opportunity to cover events in the U.S. capital, as wel…

  • Deadline: 30 September 2012We welcome and strongly encourage submissions with underrepresented main characters: characters of color, LGBTQ characters, etc.!For Winter Well: Speculative Novellas of Older Women, we’re looking for speculative stories featuring women of advancing age (late middle age and older). They’re smart, they’re…

  • Women’sNet and The Media Development & Diversity Agency are proud to present a meeting we are calling ‘The Johannesburg Agreement’, the second phase of a series of workshops to train women journalists from community media (Radio and TV) in the practice of online and mobile citizen journalism in the wake of the COP17 conference and…

  • Deadline: 30 April 2012In an effort to encourage youth participation in regional integration affairs, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has launched the 14th edition of the SADC Secondary Schools Essay Competition which is open to all Grade 12 learners in the region. Information regarding this year's competition ca…

  • Deadline: 1 July 2012City Press and Tafelberg Publishers, an imprint of NB Publishers, are proud to announce their partnership in investing in nonfiction authors by means of an annual award. The award of R60 000 will be made on an annual basis to an author to fund the research for a nonfiction book on a subject of importance in th…

  • Deadline: 27 May 2012Submission of entries for the 9th edition of the Mike Okonkwo National Essay Competition with the topic “Dependence of The Nigerian Economy on Crude Oil: Any Alternatives? has commenced.The competition is open to all Senior Secondary School students across the nation.A statement stated that the winning school …

  • Deadline: 30 March 2012Broadcast journalists working in health are invited to apply for a health journalism fellowship at Internews in Kenya.The 12-week long fellowship, which will commence on 16 April 2012, is designed to equip journalists with skills to produce complex, long-form stories on health issues.The fellowship, which wi…

  • Deadline: 1 April 2012Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection, Patricia Hill Collins: Reconceiving Black Motherhood (Editor: Kaila Adia Story, Publication Date: 2014)In 1965 a then sociologist and eventual US senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan released his report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.…

  • Deadline: 20 April 2012The Foreign Correspondents' Association of Ethiopia (FCAE) is soliciting entries from talented Ethiopian journalists to award five prizes for excellence in writing (English and Amharic), radio reporting, photojournalism and student journalism.Prizes will include laptop computers and a top of the range digita…

  • Deadline: 27 April 2012DigitalSENSE Africa Media has announced its annual Essay Competition on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D). Topic: "Internet Governance and Mobile Economy in Nigeria."The annual DigitalSENSE Africa essay competition is open to students between the ages of 18 to 30 years. Interested candidates are to …

  • Deadline: 13 April 2012South African Translators’ InstituteTriennial ConferenceThe Role of Translation and Interpretingin Language DevelopmentDate: Saturday 29 September 2012Venue: University of JohannesburgSecond Call for PapersKEYNOTE SPEAKER:Professor Sihawu NgubaneChairperson: Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB)“The Rol…

  • Deadline: 15 September 2012The cinema journal Black Camera invites submissions for a special issue, or a section of a future issue, that will investigate Nollywood, the Nigerian commercial movie industry, as a new archive of Africa’s worldliness. Inspired by the work of Achille Mbembe, this issue seeks to understand Nollywood as a…

  • Deadline: 1 May 2012New online journal Black Feminist Literature (bfemlit) invites original submissions on the following topics for its inaugural Spring 2012 issue: how you fell in love with black feminist literature (or one author/text in particular), what makes you a black feminist writer, or on a related topic/issue pertaining …

  • Deadline: 15 April 2012This special issue for the Western Journal of Black Studies will address the growing interests in interdisciplinary scholarship on Critical Race Theory and African American Folklore. Historically, scholars collected folklore to examine how African Americans constructed a life in America, and the creative exp…

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