Open Call for Submissions: 20.35 Africa Vol. VIII Anthology Guest Edited by Sarah Lubala and Logan February
An anthology by and for living African poets means celebrating the current moment, the lush and vibrant landscape of what African poetics is negotiating, while also looking back and paying homage to the great writers who walked.
Join Our Editorial Team – Call For Intern
As an intern, you’ll gain hands-on experience in various editorial tasks, develop social media content, work closely with our senior editors and learn about the scope of operations within our small non-profit literary organization.
[UPDATE] 20.35 Africa Calls for Nominations for New Poets Series Highlighting Contemporary African Poets
Through our New Poet series, 20.35 Africa has worked to promote and give individual visibility to young, up-and-coming poets from the African continent. We have made a few changes to the guidelines and urge you to read them carefully before nominating poets for the series.
Call for Submissions to Anthology Volume VII Guest-Edited by Thea Matthews and Kwame Opoku-Duku
Currently in its seventh year, the 20.35 Africa Anthology Series is the longest-running anthology for living African poets. In the same legacy as Black Orpheus and Transition, 20.35 Africa positions itself as a curatorial space to bring young voices from all over the continent together, shaping a rich amalgamation of voices on the African continent […]
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Vol. VI of 20.35 Africa Anthology Series Guest Edited by Safia Jama and Nick Makoha
In accordance with our annual publications, 20.35 Africa is happy to announce this call for submissions to the Sixth Volume of our anthology. This year’s guest editors are Safia Jama and Nick Makoha, who will be working with the organization’s editors – Ebenezer Agu, I.S. Jones, and Precious Okpechi.
Apply to be an Editorial Intern at 20.35 Africa
The 20.35 Africa team is looking for two editorial interns to join our team. While the first internship is for a graphic designer, we will prioritize applicants who are passionate about poetry or literature. The second intern will work with our editor, Portia Opare in handling the Conversations series and must be passionate about contemporary poetry.
20.35 Africa Launches Interview Series to Provide Engaging Space for Contemporary African Poetry
With no orientation on what contemporary African poetry means to us all in this age, we remain ungrounded as readers and scholars. As such, 20.35 Africa’s Interview Series will provide an engaging space for stakeholders of contemporary African poetry to help shape the production of a relevant body of knowledge on the criticism of African poetry.
Submit to Volume V of 20.35 Africa Poetry Anthology Series Guest Edited by Sara Elkamel and Bhion Achimba
Since its inception in 2017, the 20.35 Africa collective has annually published an electronic Anthology of Contemporary African Poetry. The fifth volume will be guest-edited by Sara Elkamel and Chibuihe Obi alongside the collective’s editors: Ebenezer Agu, I.S. Jones, and Precious Okpechi.
20.35 Africa Calls for Nominations for Newly Launched New Poets Series, Highlighting Contemporary African Poets
On the heels of the third volume of 20.35 Africa’s annual poetry anthology comes the New Poets series, a monthly series that provides individual visibility to contemporary African poets, prioritizing poets living on the continent. Each month, 20.35 Africa editors will choose a poet to be featured on our website and promote their writing through a targeted social media campaign for the duration of the month.
