The Blood Beats Series

Edited and curated by @anathijay, The Blood Beats Series aims to publish stories by queer artists across Africa + diaspora. Email: [email protected]

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Prepare for a warm snuggle with a 160+ page-long goodness of short fiction by writers – 15! – from across Africa, most of them being published for the first time by The Blood Beats Series.

This is SOMETHING IN THE WATER! 🌊🌒🌻

https://t.co/jW585jjbhs

[Agbowó @agbowoart]

15 days.

#Agbowo #Transitions #Submissions

[Agbowó @agbowoart]

Hello April. 😊

Deadline in 30 days…🫠

[Arts Lounge @LoungeArts]

https://t.co/1QhH301FNi @PoetryColumnNnd Send in an amazing poem.

[Agbowó @agbowoart]

What is poetry to you?

🙂

#Agbowo #WorldPoetryDay #Poetry

[psychopomp.bsky.social @psychopompcom]

attn authors:

Psychopomp•com novella subs close 11:59pm (EDT) April 30th.

we're looking to publish gothy, haunted, time-travel-y, multiverse-ish, death-focused, underworld/afterlife or a combination of any and all of those things.

full details:

https://t.co/rRiEsnyiUP

[🍉🍉🇸🇩🇸🇩The Yassification of Chinua Achebe @Ethereal_ilo]

This really brightened my day ❤️

[The Blood Beats Series @TheBloodBeats_]

Plot or Character? 👀

[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

ICYMI: @agbowoart is open and we are looking for works that key into our idea of transition. Read the call here: https://t.co/8c6zX75Rqe

[The Blood Beats Series @TheBloodBeats_]

How do you minimise tangents and digressions in your writing of short stories? Building towards the ‘gist’ of the story, how do you ensure you filter out the ‘unnecessary’ back stories and foregrounding?

[The Cheeky Natives @CheekyNatives]

What’s on your #bookclub’s reading list this month?

Why not find a great read on our online store and get 20% OFF your book club purchase!!! #BookSale #CheekyNatives #WeekendReads

[The Blood Beats Series @TheBloodBeats_]

Writing prompt:

Gun
Teeth
Rose

Write a short story or poem with all that. Go however you want; make your piece as long as you want.

✌🏾

[The Blood Beats Series @TheBloodBeats_]

@TheMosa_ Oh, no. Not to us, yet. But are you putting your work out there? 👀

[The Blood Beats Series @TheBloodBeats_]

Are you submitting your work? 👀

[The Blood Beats Series @TheBloodBeats_]

@Nkeshyy Not to us, no. Not yet anyway. But, are you? 😆

[Iska Press & Mag 🇺🇸 @Iskanchipress]

Email your experimental stand alone prose with a brief description of the work to [email protected]

We pay $40 per piece.

[Wasafiri @WasafiriMag]

In case you missed it, our New Writing Prize is now open for submissions until 5pm BST, 30 June! 🚨
Fiction, poetry, life writing. We can't wait to read your entries!

[The Blood Beats Series @TheBloodBeats_]

What are you reading?

[Harare Review of Books @HarareReview]

1/ Zimbabwean? Have you thought about writing, but have never got round to it? Have you a stack of stories that have never seen the light of day? Are you an unpublished writer?

shonareads invites you to submit a short story of no more than 1,500 words in the next 30 days.

[Samuel A. Adeyemi @samuelpoetry]

Hi, guys! I have a poem out in @ChestnutReview's new Winter 2023 issue. You can check the link below for the text and to listen to me read the poem, too.

https://t.co/uShwZV9PSj