Kikwetu is now accepting submissions for our 7th issue! We welcome fiction pieces in English and Swahili up to 3,000 words from African writers on the continent and in the diaspora.
We will pay a $30 honorarium for all published pieces.
Submissions are open from May 1 to June 30. If you do not have a Google account, you may email your submission to kikwetujournal@gmail.com
This issue will also include our first ever one-day free creative writing workshop for a selected group of new and emerging writers who submit a story for consideration. Stories will be workshopped by the Kikwetu editors and writers will have an opportunity to revise and resubmit. Writers who have published three works of fiction or fewer are eligible for the workshop. Make sure to check off the mentoring workshop box below if you would like to be considered for the program.
Send us your work! :)
Submission guidelines:
(1) Submit work via this form. If you don't have a Google account, you may email your submission to kikwetujournal@gmail.com.
(2) You may submit as many as two stories.
(3) Stories longer than 3,000 words may be returned 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 submission. 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 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) Payment will be made shortly after publication.
(11) By submitting you are agreeing to the above guidelines. Submissions that fail to comply with the guidelines may be returned unread.
We will pay a $30 honorarium for all published pieces.
Submissions are open from May 1 to June 30. If you do not have a Google account, you may email your submission to kikwetujournal@gmail.com
This issue will also include our first ever one-day free creative writing workshop for a selected group of new and emerging writers who submit a story for consideration. Stories will be workshopped by the Kikwetu editors and writers will have an opportunity to revise and resubmit. Writers who have published three works of fiction or fewer are eligible for the workshop. Make sure to check off the mentoring workshop box below if you would like to be considered for the program.
Send us your work! :)
Submission guidelines:
(1) Submit work via this form. If you don't have a Google account, you may email your submission to kikwetujournal@gmail.com.
(2) You may submit as many as two stories.
(3) Stories longer than 3,000 words may be returned 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 submission. 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 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) Payment will be made shortly after publication.
(11) By submitting you are agreeing to the above guidelines. Submissions that fail to comply with the guidelines may be returned unread.