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Opens June 15 | The 5th Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival (Los Angeles)
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Deadline June 15 | University of Chicago's New Cosmic Frontiers International Science Essay Competition: ($50,000 top prize | worldwide)
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Harvest International welcomes poetry submissions in any language
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Deadline June 15 | Call for Submissions: 2nd Issue of Bakwa Art and Culture Magazine (West Africa)
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Deadline June 15 | United Nations Academic Impact Essay Writing Contest for University Students (worldwide)
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Deadline June 15 | Call for Plays by Writers of Middle-Eastern Descent: Noor Theatre (USA)
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Deadline June 15 | Call for Contributions for Edited Volume - Comparative Mediterranean Modernisms: Pan-Mediterranean Artistic Exchange in Literature
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Deadline June 15 | The Inaugural AMYA Young Muslim Writers Awards 2012 (UK)
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The $1,900 ASiS International Essay and Poetry Writing Competition for Students (worldwide)
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The First Annual Tu Books New Vision Award ($1,000 prize | US-resident writers of color)
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The $1,500/ £1,000 Pure Travel Writing Competition 2012 (worldwide)
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Deadline Extended | Transform Your Thesis into a Magazine Article: “Share Your Science” Writing Contest 2012 (€250 prize | worldwide)
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Call for Essays for Edited Book - Deconstructing Dolls: The Many Meanings of Girls’ Toys & Play (Peter Lang Press | worldwide)
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Deadline June 14 | Job Opening: Assistant Editor - English for Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (Kenya)
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Youth of United Nations Association of Tanzania - Students Green Journey Essay Competition ($200 prize | Tanzania)
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Lesleigh Innis and Outis Short Story Contest (Kenya)
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Open to Environmental Bloggers/ Journalists Worldwide: The IUCN - Thomson Reuters Media Award 2012
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Call for Books by Women about African Women: The Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize 2012 (free to enter | $500 prize)
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Short Story Day Africa YA Short Story Competition for Ages 17 and Below (Africa-wide)
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Call for Articles for Edited Collection: Ethnic Perspectives on Ethnic Literatures
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The N225,000 Nigerian Film Corporation Essay Competition 2012/ 2013
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Black Letter Media and Poetry Potion are Looking for Short Stories and Poetry for an Upcoming Anthology (Africa-wide)
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Short Story Day Africa Competition (Africa-wide)
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The $1,750 FSDE International Essay Competition: Dreaming the World Without Poverty (worldwide)
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Job Opening: Mid-Senior Football Writer for Mobi-D/ Soccer Laduma (South Africa)
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Freelance Journalists/ Writers Wanted for Hivisasa (online newspaper | Kenya)
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Job Opening: Senior Sub-Editor/ Writer for Mango Juice (Mikateko Media, South Africa)
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Call for Papers: What is Africa to me now? The Continent and its Literary Diasporas (International Conference at University of Liège, Belgium)
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Job Openings: Deputy Editor and Correspondents for Business Hallmark (Nigeria)
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Call for Papers for Edited Book - Princess Cultures: Mediating Girls’ Imaginations and Identities (Peter Lang Press | worldwide)
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Intwasa Short Story Contest 2012 ($500 prize | Zimbabwe)
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Stories with African-American Theme Welcomed - American Athenaeum: A Museum of Words (worldwide)
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Writers International Network Zimbabwe Short Story Writing Competition and Workshop
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Call for Submissions: Bad Company (crime-thriller anthology | South Africa)
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Cecil B. Currey Book Award 2012 (Third World topics are accepable)
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The 9th IJP Middle East Fellowship Program for Journalists (€4,000 stipend)
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The Toyin Falola Africa Book Award 2012 (for the best book on Africa | $500 cash award)
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The Kentucky Women Writers Playwriting Prize ($500 prize and production | worldwide)
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Deadline June 11 | Call for Critical Essays - N. Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal (Africa-wide)
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Deadline June 10 | The WAN-IFRA African News Innovation Challenge (grant value: $12,500-$100,000 | Africa-wide)
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Opens June 8 | The National Black Book Festival 2012 (Texas)
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Deadline June 10 | “Share Your Science” Writing Contest 2012 (€250 prize | worldwide)
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Job Opening: Chief Web Editor for African Development Bank (Tunisia)
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DUJS International Science Essay Competition for High School Students ($150 prize | worldwide)
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Now Open for Entries: Nova Short Story Competition 2012 (South Africa)
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Job Opening: Junior Features Writer for SA Home Owner Magazine (Avusa Media | South Africa)
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Ugreen Foundation's Creative Wings Short Story Prize 2012 (Nigera/ Africa-wide)