Call for Submissions: An Afro-Eros Anthology

​We have read several anthologies about love, its coyness, fragility, joy, and sometimes, heartbreak. What’s often shied from in the narratives of love especially in many African cultures is its involving eros and sexuality. Even when such is written about, it is bound with entities that water and wrap it up as though such experience is sinful, shameful, or worse, inexistent.
 
Often, when “black voices” or “afro voices” are used, it is only in the context of activism or a revolution. There are several limitations in finding our voices in a plethora of ordinary human experiences like eros and sex. Worse, the topic, even among Africans, is only led by European ideologies, practices, imagination, and sometimes, standards leading to a misrepresentation of ourselves and misalignment with our cultures. 
 
We are looking for the revealing, authentic, pure, funny, regretting, teasing, memorable, descriptive, and importantly, relatable in this theme. We are looking for the provoking, simple, experimental, playful, what follows the rules or breaks them. Rather than treat the topic of sex, eros, and sexuality as an ingredient needing context, we want an anthology that serves it as a meal to interested readers of the specific subject.
 
So, submit to us and hit us with your best shot!
 
Only the best 25 pieces will be published in this anthology.
 
Eligibility and Instructions 

Timeline:
Submissions open and close: February 15 – April 30, 2021
Selected writers will be notified: May 30
The anthology will be published in a downloadable PDF format on www.sprinng.org in June.


You can submit to: https://forms.gle/EKvkZd5LyjYjAXEV8 or https://tinyurl.com/SprinNGAfro-Eros
 
Eligibility:

• Submission is open only to Nigerian writers. 
• Writers can submit up to two previously published or unpublished poems or prose-poetry.
• Only poems written in English are eligible for submission and for code-switching, please include interpretations. 
• Poems or prose-poetry should not be more than 15 lines.
• With the definition of “poetry” increasingly changing, we are open to every style you can think. You can play around with form and surprise us.

For any questions or concerns email - contact@sprinng.org
For more information visit: https://www.sprinng.org/an-afro-eros-anthology.html
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