16 January 2011

Call for Submissions: Remembering Marechera Anthology (poetry, essays, and short stories)

Deadline: 6 April 2011

To celebrate Dambudzo Marechera’s posthumous 59th birthday this year I will be putting together an ebook anthology entitled “Remembering Marechera”, consisting of essays, reviews, short stories, poems, etc. that follow this theme, to be published by StoryTime Publishing. To this end I invite your submissions until the 6th of April 2011.

Theme: “Remembering Marechera”

Word count: 1000-5000 words (less for poetry if needs be)

Format: An attached Word doc/docx, times new roman, 12 point, single spaced.

Submissions: By email only to: dambudzo.marechera@gmail.com

Deadline: 6th of April 2011

The project will depend on the quantity and quality of submissions I receive, and if all goes well it will be distributed through Amazon’s Kindle platform in a variety of formats (and possibly print too depending). I look forward to reading your submissions. If you have any queries please email me at the submissions email.

Update:

In the project so far: Emmanuel Sigauke, John Mwazemba, Beaven Tapureta, Joseph Chikowero, Sylva Nze Ifedigbo, Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Sarudzai Mubvakure, Thando Mgqolozana, David Mungoshi, Masimba Musodza, Fungai Machirori, Afam Akeh, Uko Bendi Udo, Ernst Schade, Alex Magaisa, Jabulani Mzinyathi, Isaac Neequaye, Abigail George, Austin Kaluba, Karen Stally, Zukiswa Wanner, Tendai Tagarira, and Franziska Kramer.

Editors:

Emmanuel Sigauke – Poetry
Tinashe Mushakavanhu – Essays
Ivor Hartmann – Short Stories

More information here.
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