🪄June 2024 Opportunities🪄

calls and resources for African meaning makers on the continent

Everywhere I’ve looked on social media, the people are prophesying a month of blessings and warmth. A harvest of the seeds planted with January’s hopes. Listen, life will continue to be what life is—ups and downs. But this June, I pray you do not lose sight of your ability to create justice, safety and prosperity in your body, your life, your community and your society. Here are some opportunities to support you. And we’ve left two opportunities with just-passed deadlines because we would like to put all these organisations on your radar regardless.

Listening to Fatoumata Diawara’s Nterini while formatting this newsletter made the experience 2x smoother.

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Jobs, Residencies and Fellowships

• Social Media Manager - Yinka Ilori, UK (Ongoing)

  Yinka Ilori is a multidisciplinary London-based artist whose bold visual language draws on his British-Nigerian heritage to convey new narratives through contemporary design. His studio is looking to partner with a Freelance Social Media Manager to share their vision on social media.

• Dreaming New Worlds - Goethe-Institut, Nigeria (June 3)

  Goethe-Institut is committed to promoting cultural exchanges, education and societal discourse. For the second edition of the Dreaming of New Worlds program, GI is inviting artists to artistically explore the concept of ‘Collective Illusions’ and is particularly open to those that integrate science, art and technology into their practices.

  Fifteen artists and scientists will be invited to participate in a one-week ideathon where they will form collectives and collaborate. Three collectives will be awarded a production grant and will participate in a group exhibition in November 2024.

• Residency - K-AiR, Global (May 31)

  The Kòbomojé Artist Residency is an international residency program that offers a place for artists to develop their creative projects. The residency is focused on Capturing Women’s Histories in Nigeria. Artists are to reflect on the multifaceted contributions of women and create projects that celebrate women and highlight their valuable contributions to their societies. The residency will be held in Ibadan over four weeks.

• African Cultural Heritage Fellowship - The Africa Institute, Sharjah, UAE (unspecified)

  Funded by a multi-year grant from the Open Society Foundations, The Africa Institute is starting a new fellowship program that will bring together scholars and practitioners to explore complex issues surrounding cultural restitution and reparation specifically related to African art and artifacts. The open call for the fellowship will begin in June 2024. 

Prizes and Scholarships 

• Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize - Cassava Republic Press, Global (June 30)

  The inaugural Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize by Cassava Republic Press is still open for submissions. The winner will receive a $20,000 advance and a publishing contract with Cassava Republic Press.

• Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Contest - Grist, Global (June 24)

  Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to highlighting climate solutions and uncovering environmental injustices. The Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors is Grist’s climate fiction initiative that engages writers from across the globe in envisioning the next generations for climate progress. The winning writer will receive $3,000 and twelve finalists will have their story published in an immersive collection on Grist’s website.

• Prize for Publishing in Africa - CANEX (June 30)

  The Creative Africa Nexus programme (CANEX) is inviting publishers in Africa to submit published trade books for the inaugural CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa.

Call for Submissions

• Open Call - No! Wahala Magazine, Africa (July 15)

  No! Wahala Magazine is a contemporary African magazine that champions authentic visual stories by African creatives. For their third issue, they intend to highlight the spirit of resilience in the face of hardship and complexity by curating a collection centered around the theme ‘Joy’!

  Submissions are open to African photographers only.

• Call for Submission - Umuofia Arts and Books Festival, Nigeria (June 30)

  The Umuofia Arts and Books Festival is a festival created in honour of Chinua Achebe’s legacy to be held annually in Igbo land. They are open to works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction for their anthology. Submissions should be made via email to umuofiabookfestival@gmail.com 

• Call for Essays - Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, Global (September 1)

  The Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies publishes interdisciplinary and cross-cultural articles and interviews on literature, history, politics and art whose focus involves colonialism and its aftermath. They are interested in manuscript submissions for a special issue on contemporary African Writers who have come to prominence in the United States over the last two decades.

• Call for Submission, Who Gave the Order - Brittle Paper, Nigeria (June 30)

  Almost four years after the events of the EndSARS protest which took place between September and October 2020. Editor Chibueze Darlington Anuonye in collaboration with Brittle Paper calls for submissions of essays and creative nonfiction pieces that speak to and about the protest. Submission should be made by email to: chibuezedarlington@gmail.com 

  
  

Resources and Grants

• Micro-Grant - About Her Culture, Global (June)

  About Her Culture is offering $500 micro-grants to Caribbean, African women and women of African and Caribbean descent who are entrepreneurs, creatives and non-profit founders whose projects positively impact culture and community.

• The Pulitzer Center’s Global Reporting Grants (ongoing)

  This is a list of funding opportunities for in-depth, underreported stories related to conflicts around the world. There are no restrictions on topic or reporting location. For underreported stories in Africa, check out this link.

• The RCDIJ Africa Fund (ongoing)

  This is a fund for individual journalists across Africa to support small to mid-scale data and/or investigative journalism projects. The funds range from US$1000 to $10,000, depending on scale, location, and duration.

• Progressive International Summer School on Global Capitalism, Global (June - August)

  Do you find yourself asking: What is global capitalism? When did global capitalism emerge? What comes after capitalism? What is money, who conjures its value, and who is subjected to these conjurers? The Progressive International Summer School is designed to answer these questions.

  Over the course of four weeks, experts such as Quinn Slobodian, Jodi Dean, Ndongo Samba Sylla will provide insight into the past, present and future of global capitalism.

• Ellipsis Open School, Global (June 3)

  Ellipsis Open School is an alternative school that takes place in a countryside house in the South of Portugal. Ellipsis aims to explore the possibilities of community creation and intends to be an experiment in community and horizontal learning with a focus on art and design.

  Participants will function in both student and teacher roles as they share ideas and resources over a period of 9 days.

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Other recommended opportunities listings:

Open Country Mag’s List of 2024 Opportunities, Sonia Weiser’s Opportunities of the Week, Talia Augustidis’s All Hear, On the Move, Sean Meades-Williams’s Freelance Writing Jobs, Commonwealth Foundation’s Creative Opportunities List, Aurore Iradukunda’s monthly roundup for (African scholars), Creative Lives in Progress, Run the Check(UK), Grants for Creators (US), Sisterly HQ (NG), and our Instagram page, where we share opportunities more frequently on our stories.

Compiled by Immaculata Abba and Deborah Iyalagha.