Post by Tomspy77 on May 18, 2020 19:58:10 GMT -6
Jay Lit Review Call for Submissions
Deadline: Rolling
Jay Lit Review calls for critiques, commentary, research, essays, and translations. Fields of interest: African (youth) literature and literacy; African (youth) culture and language studies; African language education; feminist/gender, post/decolonial, reader-response, linguistic, comparative, etc. analysis; translation into/from African languages; related areas of study.
Topics: African youths, youth culture, and literature; reflections on teaching African languages; multilingualism in Africa, linguistics, related subjects. Educators, academics, and translators invited to showcase knowledge and skills in their professional field. Postgrad essays on a variety of African youth concerns will be considered. Double-blind peer review. Visit africanyouthliterature.art.blog/the-jay-lit-review for more info│ Email .
The deadline for creative writing submissions to Jay Lit issue 2 is 31 May 2020, but with the current health crisis, we may extend it. Drop us an email to let us know if you need more time.
The summary guidelines below apply to Jay Lit the creative writing journal only and not to the Jay Lit Review, which is a different publication. Please click here for information about the Review.
The guidelines below are just a brief summary. For more detailed guidelines, please click here.
Jay Lit publishes literature written in languages spoken in African that are by, about, and/or for born-in-Africa youths. For the purposes of the Journal, ‘African’ is defined according to a place of birth or heritage. It is not related to color or race. The youth age category is 15-35 years.
Therefore, the Journal will publish literature written by Africans from the age of 15 years up to 35. Jay Lit will also publish literature by other individuals who are writing about and for African youths.
Before you submit, please have a look at the first Jay Lit issue released in January 2020. Read it online at Issuu or download free of charge.
Jay Lit is interested in the types of literature listed below. Please note the lengths for publication and requirements. Please send only one of each kind of submission per submission period, i.e. poetry or a short story, not both.
– Short poems up to 20 lines each, 1 to 5 short poems
– Long poem 21-50 lines, 1 long poem
– Short story/flash fiction up to 5 000 words, 1 piece
– Long story/novella 5 000-30 000 words, 1 piece
– Short play up to 5 000 words, 1 short play
– Long play 5 000-10 000 words, 1 long play
– Comic book/graphic art with a storyline up to 20 pages, 1 piece
– Visual stories (e.g. photo essays) up to 10 000 words, 1 piece
– Artworks of other kinds up to 20 images
Jay Lit will publish all forms of poetry, including oral, rhyming and non-rhyming poems, haiku, sonnets, limericks, your own style, etc., and even song lyrics. We will also consider themed collections. Jay Lit will take genre fiction, creative non-fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, flash and micro fiction, “I” stories, etc.
We encourage submissions in any and all African languages, and in other languages that are widely spoken in Africa, such as English, French and Portuguese. Where the author or editor deems necessary, a translation may be added in a footnote or brackets. We will try to find a reviewer or editor for your chosen language. To help in making a decision on non-English texts, please include a short summary in English of what your submission is about when you send it.
The Journal is a platform for youth authors and readers in particular. All published work must generally meet at least one of the following requirements:
– Written by a youth aged 15 to 35 years;
– Written for youths aged 15 to 35 years; and/or
– Written about youths aged 15 to 35 years.
Formatting and sending your document
– Use 11 or 12 point Times New Roman black font
– 1.5 line spacing and justified alignment
– British or American English are accepted, but be consistent
– Add page numbers at the bottom of the page
– Send documents in MS Word format
– Comics, graphic art and other artworks can be in any common file format
– Please send good quality picture files
– With your submission, you can send a photo of yourself and a third-person bio up to 100 words
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Simultaneous submissions occur when the author sends a piece to more than one potential publisher.
What will help your submission get published?
– Your original writing not copied from elsewhere/plagiarised
– Never published before online or in print
– Correct spelling and grammar (to the best of your ability)
– Simple, easy to work with formatting
– No rants hate speech, sermons, advice columns, or porn
– No excessive, gratuitous/pointless violence or swearing
– Fits the requirements of being by, about, and/or for African youths
– Requires no or minimal editing
– Right file format (see the previous section)
Note
If your work has been published elsewhere before, it cannot be published in Jay Lit
Please send all submissions to africanyouthliterature@gmail.com
Deadline: Rolling
Jay Lit Review calls for critiques, commentary, research, essays, and translations. Fields of interest: African (youth) literature and literacy; African (youth) culture and language studies; African language education; feminist/gender, post/decolonial, reader-response, linguistic, comparative, etc. analysis; translation into/from African languages; related areas of study.
Topics: African youths, youth culture, and literature; reflections on teaching African languages; multilingualism in Africa, linguistics, related subjects. Educators, academics, and translators invited to showcase knowledge and skills in their professional field. Postgrad essays on a variety of African youth concerns will be considered. Double-blind peer review. Visit africanyouthliterature.art.blog/the-jay-lit-review for more info│ Email .
The deadline for creative writing submissions to Jay Lit issue 2 is 31 May 2020, but with the current health crisis, we may extend it. Drop us an email to let us know if you need more time.
The summary guidelines below apply to Jay Lit the creative writing journal only and not to the Jay Lit Review, which is a different publication. Please click here for information about the Review.
The guidelines below are just a brief summary. For more detailed guidelines, please click here.
Jay Lit publishes literature written in languages spoken in African that are by, about, and/or for born-in-Africa youths. For the purposes of the Journal, ‘African’ is defined according to a place of birth or heritage. It is not related to color or race. The youth age category is 15-35 years.
Therefore, the Journal will publish literature written by Africans from the age of 15 years up to 35. Jay Lit will also publish literature by other individuals who are writing about and for African youths.
Before you submit, please have a look at the first Jay Lit issue released in January 2020. Read it online at Issuu or download free of charge.
Jay Lit is interested in the types of literature listed below. Please note the lengths for publication and requirements. Please send only one of each kind of submission per submission period, i.e. poetry or a short story, not both.
– Short poems up to 20 lines each, 1 to 5 short poems
– Long poem 21-50 lines, 1 long poem
– Short story/flash fiction up to 5 000 words, 1 piece
– Long story/novella 5 000-30 000 words, 1 piece
– Short play up to 5 000 words, 1 short play
– Long play 5 000-10 000 words, 1 long play
– Comic book/graphic art with a storyline up to 20 pages, 1 piece
– Visual stories (e.g. photo essays) up to 10 000 words, 1 piece
– Artworks of other kinds up to 20 images
Jay Lit will publish all forms of poetry, including oral, rhyming and non-rhyming poems, haiku, sonnets, limericks, your own style, etc., and even song lyrics. We will also consider themed collections. Jay Lit will take genre fiction, creative non-fiction, historical fiction, memoirs, flash and micro fiction, “I” stories, etc.
We encourage submissions in any and all African languages, and in other languages that are widely spoken in Africa, such as English, French and Portuguese. Where the author or editor deems necessary, a translation may be added in a footnote or brackets. We will try to find a reviewer or editor for your chosen language. To help in making a decision on non-English texts, please include a short summary in English of what your submission is about when you send it.
The Journal is a platform for youth authors and readers in particular. All published work must generally meet at least one of the following requirements:
– Written by a youth aged 15 to 35 years;
– Written for youths aged 15 to 35 years; and/or
– Written about youths aged 15 to 35 years.
Formatting and sending your document
– Use 11 or 12 point Times New Roman black font
– 1.5 line spacing and justified alignment
– British or American English are accepted, but be consistent
– Add page numbers at the bottom of the page
– Send documents in MS Word format
– Comics, graphic art and other artworks can be in any common file format
– Please send good quality picture files
– With your submission, you can send a photo of yourself and a third-person bio up to 100 words
Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but you must let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere. Simultaneous submissions occur when the author sends a piece to more than one potential publisher.
What will help your submission get published?
– Your original writing not copied from elsewhere/plagiarised
– Never published before online or in print
– Correct spelling and grammar (to the best of your ability)
– Simple, easy to work with formatting
– No rants hate speech, sermons, advice columns, or porn
– No excessive, gratuitous/pointless violence or swearing
– Fits the requirements of being by, about, and/or for African youths
– Requires no or minimal editing
– Right file format (see the previous section)
Note
If your work has been published elsewhere before, it cannot be published in Jay Lit
Please send all submissions to africanyouthliterature@gmail.com
africanyouthliterature.art.blog/author-guidelines/