StoryTime call for Submissions

StoryTime, an African new fiction magazine has been granted funding by the UK Arts Council to publish it's first anthology with The Lion Press Ltd. The writers' deadline is July 20, 2009 and the anthology will go to print in early August. The ST Anthology will be launched by The Lion Press at a Zimbabwean Writers festival being organised by them in August.

Participation is by the writers already at ST and those who will publish work on the website by July 20. These works must fit the anthology's guidelines in order to be selected. The book is designed to be an eclectic anthology and will only feature the best of all the works at ST. The book is entitled "African Roar: An Eclectic Anthology of African Authors".

Anthology Guidelines:

Submit short stories between 1500-8000 words.
All fiction genres and themes are acceptable, and must fit within the general ST guidelines

No children's stories.

Only writers born in Africa, or currently domiciled in for over 10 years, are eligible for entry.

Submission deadline is the 20th July 2009.

StoryTime Submission Guidelines:

We welcome all African Fiction Writers to submit, in all fiction genres. The story must be an Original work, nothing that infringes the copyright of, or is derived from, another authors work of fiction, is overly lewd, hate speech, etc. You get the idea. That being said all stories posted are for read and review only, the authors will retain all rights and copyrights to posted stories. Stories submitted may be:

1) Short stories: 1000 - 8000 words.

2) Serial or episodic stories: divided into 1000 - 5000 word sections.

3) Novels, novella's or novelettes: divided into 1000 - 5000 word sections.

4) Poems or Collections of Poetry: 1000 - 5000 words or divided into 1000 - 5000 word sections.