Submissions for Kikwetu issue 11 are now open! Submit here.
For this issue, we’re looking for bold, original, compelling poems as well as fiction and creative nonfiction pieces of up to 2500 words that reflect the richness of African storytelling, variety of lived experiences, and the diversity of thought and strength of imagination that defines the continent.
We welcome work written in both English and Kiswahili.
Contributors of fiction and creative nonfiction selected for publication will receive $25 (USD) upon publication. Poets will receive $15 (USD) per poem selected for publication.
Submissions will remain open through September 15.
You may submit up to two pieces of prose as long as each piece on its own does not exceed 2,500 words.
Poets may submit up to 4 poems. Please submit all poems in one document.
Send us your original unpublished work; where your voice is the strongest, most confident and singularly yours.
Submission guidelines:
(1) Submit work via this form.
(2) You may submit as many as two pieces of prose maximum. Poets may submit up to 4 poems.
(3) Individual pieces longer than 2,500 words will remain unread.
(4) All submissions should be in English or Swahili and submitted as a word document.
(5) We will do our very best to make a decision within three months of our submission window closing. Please do not contact us about the status of your submission until three months have passed.
(6) We are truly grateful that you are sending us your work. We will read all submissions carefully, but regretfully will not be able to give individualized feedback on all submissions.
(7) Submissions must be entirely the work of the submitter and must never have been previously published in print or online (including personal blogs and social media).
(8) Kikwetu has first publication rights, but copyright reverts to the author upon publication. In case of republishing your work, we ask that you acknowledge Kikwetu. Kikwetu may republish accepted works in future print anthologies or promotional materials.
(9) By submitting your work, you are granting the editors permission to make copyedits involving grammar and punctuation.
(10) Work may not be generated by Artificial Intelligence; it should come directly from your human brain.
(11) Payment to published authors will be made shortly after publication via M-Pesa, PayPal or Venmo.
(12) By submitting you are agreeing to the above guidelines. Submissions that fail to comply with the guidelines may be returned unread
For this issue, we’re looking for bold, original, compelling poems as well as fiction and creative nonfiction pieces of up to 2500 words that reflect the richness of African storytelling, variety of lived experiences, and the diversity of thought and strength of imagination that defines the continent.
We welcome work written in both English and Kiswahili.
Contributors of fiction and creative nonfiction selected for publication will receive $25 (USD) upon publication. Poets will receive $15 (USD) per poem selected for publication.
Submissions will remain open through September 15.
You may submit up to two pieces of prose as long as each piece on its own does not exceed 2,500 words.
Poets may submit up to 4 poems. Please submit all poems in one document.
Send us your original unpublished work; where your voice is the strongest, most confident and singularly yours.
Submission guidelines:
(1) Submit work via this form.
(2) You may submit as many as two pieces of prose maximum. Poets may submit up to 4 poems.
(3) Individual pieces longer than 2,500 words will remain unread.
(4) All submissions should be in English or Swahili and submitted as a word document.
(5) We will do our very best to make a decision within three months of our submission window closing. Please do not contact us about the status of your submission until three months have passed.
(6) We are truly grateful that you are sending us your work. We will read all submissions carefully, but regretfully will not be able to give individualized feedback on all submissions.
(7) Submissions must be entirely the work of the submitter and must never have been previously published in print or online (including personal blogs and social media).
(8) Kikwetu has first publication rights, but copyright reverts to the author upon publication. In case of republishing your work, we ask that you acknowledge Kikwetu. Kikwetu may republish accepted works in future print anthologies or promotional materials.
(9) By submitting your work, you are granting the editors permission to make copyedits involving grammar and punctuation.
(10) Work may not be generated by Artificial Intelligence; it should come directly from your human brain.
(11) Payment to published authors will be made shortly after publication via M-Pesa, PayPal or Venmo.
(12) By submitting you are agreeing to the above guidelines. Submissions that fail to comply with the guidelines may be returned unread