My Mind Words Paper [about writers and more]
Intwasa Short Story Contest 2012 ($500 prize | Zimbabwe)
Stories with African-American Theme Welcomed - American Athenaeum: A Museum of Words (worldwide)
Writers International Network Zimbabwe Short Story Writing Competition and Workshop
Call for Submissions: Bad Company (crime-thriller anthology | South Africa)
Cecil B. Currey Book Award 2012 (Third World topics are accepable)
The 9th IJP Middle East Fellowship Program for Journalists (€4,000 stipend)
The Toyin Falola Africa Book Award 2012 (for the best book on Africa | $500 cash award)
The Kentucky Women Writers Playwriting Prize ($500 prize and production | worldwide)
Deadline June 11 | Call for Critical Essays - N. Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal (Africa-wide)
Deadline June 10 | The WAN-IFRA African News Innovation Challenge (grant value: $12,500-$100,000 | Africa-wide)
Opens June 8 | The National Black Book Festival 2012 (Texas)