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Call for Contributions – African Queer Women’s Artistic Journal

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On May 19, 2016

HOLAA! is collecting stories and thoughts for an ‘artistic journal’ by African Queer Women. This edition will be hosted on Q-Zine and other platforms.

The theme will be ‘Emergence’ and is all about African queer women coming up and coming out on to the stage that is the digital and artistic realm. It is all about freedom to be you and do you! The idea is to have any form of expression including but not limited to:

  • Blog posts
  • Poems
  • Short stories
  • Photo essays
  • Opinions pieces
  • Illustrations

The maximum number of words for written pieces are 2000 there is no minimum. Photos and illustrations should be in high resolution, at least 1,000 pixels.

Contributions in French, Kiswahili and English greatly welcomed.

If your piece is accepted and selected for the publication you shall receive $100 USD for your work. Republishing of already produced pieces is accepted as long as they are the author’s original work and copyright belongs to the author.

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2016.

Email: info@holaafrica.org or submissions@holaafrica.org