04/09/2020
CALL FOR POEMS
BEST “NEW” AFRICAN POETS 2020 ANTHOLOGY
We are calling for BEST 1-3 poems per poet from Africa (living in
Africa) or of African diasporas (one of the parents originated from
Africa) to be included in BEST “NEW” AFRICAN POETS 2020 ANTHOLOGY.
Poems of any topic, form…preferably less than 40 lines but we will
read and consider longer poems too, must be in any African indigenous
language of Africa plus French, English, and Portuguese. Those in
local African indigenous languages should be accompanied by a
translation into French, or English or Portuguese.
We are also looking for critical reviews/appreciation/profile of
previous BNAP poets’ work, especially critical reviews of poetry
collections they released after being published in the BNAP Anthology
( 2015-2019), and reviews of any of the previous Bnap anthologies . We
will select interviews to publish from those we did in-house for the
past 6 years. The reviews and appreciation articles must be less than
2000 words in length
“New” in form, style, poetry making, thinking, writing, living.
Whilst we will give younger poets chance we do not necessarily select
young poets only. We are very flexible in what we term as African; you
may be born on the continent, you may be staying on the continent yet
from another continent (afrocentric), you may also be a first
descendent of African parents but staying in the diasporas.
Deadline for entries is 15 October, 2020
Entries should be in one word doc, include also your contact
information, country of stay or country of origin and a bio note of
not more than 100 words. We do not accept simultaneous submissions!
We do not send contributors free copies of the anthology
Please adhere to submission guidelines, failure of which we will not
consider your poems!
Entries should be sent to Tendai Mwanaka (English editor)
[email protected]; Lorna Zita ( Portuguese editor)
[email protected]; and Nsah Mala/Baldine Moussa (French
Editors) [email protected] or
