SUBMIT!
Jalada Africa is a Pan-African writers’ collective and digital publisher. We release new literary and arts journals twice a year. Open calls for submissions run for specific periods. Outside the Spotlight and Translation series, we only publish work based on specified anthology themes.
JALADA 09: NOSTALGIA
“Quickly but carefully cross to the other side.” Photo collage 63.5×64.5cm 2020
Artist: Ibrahim A. Ahmed
The Nostalgia Issue is an exploration of memory; tradition and modernity, the tactile and the intangible, legacy and erasure, stagnation and evolution, the possible and impossible.
SUBMISSIONS
1. Nostalgia online
We welcome responses to the question of Nostalgia online as short poems, flash fiction and musings presented as (or alongside) original GIFs, memes, photos and videos.
Tag our handle Jalada Africa on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and use #JaladaNostalgia to make sure we see it.
Submission window opens June 1st, 2020
2. Nostalgia anthology
We seek to create an anthology of short fiction, poetry, essays, visual art, films and interviews (audio, visual or written) on the subject of Nostalgia.
Submissions will be received between June 1st, 2020 and July 31st, 2020.
Read the detailed theme call-out text in Kiswahili, Portuguese, French or English.