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Zimbolicious Anthology, Volume 3:
An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts
Following the successful publication and critical reception of Zimbolicious Poetry: Anthology of Zimbabwean Poetry, and Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2, we have decided to continue with the series of Zimbolicious Anthologies. We are open to experienced and young poets, storytellers, novelist, essayists (academic and general), playwrights, visual artists, songwriters (the first anthology had poems from David Mungoshi, Ivor Hartman, John Eppel, Emanuel Sigauke, Tinashe Muchuri, Cosmas Mairosi, Mbizo Chirasha, Tendai Mwanaka, Catherine Mugodo Mtukwa… and several budding poets. The second volume had poems from Albert Nyathi, Edward Dzonze, Shoes Lambada, Killian Mwanaka, Mbizo Chirasha, Constance Van Nierkek… and several young poets)
As we expand this anthology series to harness as much as we can about Zimbabwean literature and arts, we have decided to include several new sections, i.e. Primary School Section (Zimbabwean primary school children, upto grade 7), High School Section (from form 1-6), Professional Arts Section, Reviews and Interviews Section, not only these but we are now open for the first time to visual artists, songwriters, fictionist, playwrights, essayists, mixed genres etc. The idea is to engender writing and reading cultures right from the lower grades so that in the future we will have strong leadership, readership and writership culture. There are a lot other programmes we are working on around this anthology, we will announce later.
The anthology will be published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd http://www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/mwanaka-media-and-publishing, a Zimbabwe based newly formed publisher, and distributed by African Books Collective, UK, http://www.africanbookscollective.com, who have distribution links with scholarly and public libraries throughout the world including among others, Worldcat Identities, John Hopkins’ project muse, ebsco host etc, which has resulted in the previous two volumes being collected in university libraries like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, and New York City Public Library etc. The facebook page of the series is here: https://m.facebook.com/Zimbolicious-Poetry-Anthology-513910842136938/?ref=bookmarks
Unlike the previous two offerings, this third volume will also be published and printed in Zimbabwe. We will be offering free contributor copies to all those we select to publish in this volume, to be collected in Harare.
We are looking for work in all Zimbabwean indigenous languages and cultures (Chewa, Chibarwe, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda and Xhosa) and English language. For literature, the indigenous languages entries should be accompanied with an English translation/interpretation. We prefer short pieces but we will read long pieces and will include some in the anthology.
Send us your best work.
1 Not more than 3 poems/songs per poet/songwriter.
2 One prose, play, mixed genre piece per entrant of not more than 5 000words
3 Not more than 3 artworks per an artist (each artwork must be accompanied by not more than 500 words description)
4 As for reviews please send less than 2 000 words reviews of any Zimbabwean writer or artist’s work (preferably full length collections or a body of work) of your own choice. These should be published, exhibited or recorded artworks/writings!
5 Interviews will only be selected from those we have previously published, which we have posted on our blog page!
6 Also include a bio note of not more than 50 words about the author to be published with their work, if selected.
This is a strictly a Zimbabwean anthology, so we will only read and consider work from citizens of Zimbabwe and her diasporas (parents are of Zimbabwean descent).
Send your work to Tendai R Mwanaka at mwanaka@yahoo.com
Deadline for entries is 31 July 2018
Zimbolicious Anthology, Volume 3:
An Anthology of Zimbabwean Literature and Arts
Following the successful publication and critical reception of Zimbolicious Poetry: Anthology of Zimbabwean Poetry, and Zimbolicious Poetry Anthology, Volume 2, we have decided to continue with the series of Zimbolicious Anthologies. We are open to experienced and young poets, storytellers, novelist, essayists (academic and general), playwrights, visual artists, songwriters (the first anthology had poems from David Mungoshi, Ivor Hartman, John Eppel, Emanuel Sigauke, Tinashe Muchuri, Cosmas Mairosi, Mbizo Chirasha, Tendai Mwanaka, Catherine Mugodo Mtukwa… and several budding poets. The second volume had poems from Albert Nyathi, Edward Dzonze, Shoes Lambada, Killian Mwanaka, Mbizo Chirasha, Constance Van Nierkek… and several young poets)
As we expand this anthology series to harness as much as we can about Zimbabwean literature and arts, we have decided to include several new sections, i.e. Primary School Section (Zimbabwean primary school children, upto grade 7), High School Section (from form 1-6), Professional Arts Section, Reviews and Interviews Section, not only these but we are now open for the first time to visual artists, songwriters, fictionist, playwrights, essayists, mixed genres etc. The idea is to engender writing and reading cultures right from the lower grades so that in the future we will have strong leadership, readership and writership culture. There are a lot other programmes we are working on around this anthology, we will announce later.
The anthology will be published by Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd http://www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/mwanaka-media-and-publishing, a Zimbabwe based newly formed publisher, and distributed by African Books Collective, UK, http://www.africanbookscollective.com, who have distribution links with scholarly and public libraries throughout the world including among others, Worldcat Identities, John Hopkins’ project muse, ebsco host etc, which has resulted in the previous two volumes being collected in university libraries like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, University of Chicago, and New York City Public Library etc. The facebook page of the series is here: https://m.facebook.com/Zimbolicious-Poetry-Anthology-513910842136938/?ref=bookmarks
Unlike the previous two offerings, this third volume will also be published and printed in Zimbabwe. We will be offering free contributor copies to all those we select to publish in this volume, to be collected in Harare.
We are looking for work in all Zimbabwean indigenous languages and cultures (Chewa, Chibarwe, Kalanga, Koisan, Nambya, Ndau, Ndebele, Shangani, Shona, Sotho, Tonga, Tswana, Venda and Xhosa) and English language. For literature, the indigenous languages entries should be accompanied with an English translation/interpretation. We prefer short pieces but we will read long pieces and will include some in the anthology.
Send us your best work.
1 Not more than 3 poems/songs per poet/songwriter.
2 One prose, play, mixed genre piece per entrant of not more than 5 000words
3 Not more than 3 artworks per an artist (each artwork must be accompanied by not more than 500 words description)
4 As for reviews please send less than 2 000 words reviews of any Zimbabwean writer or artist’s work (preferably full length collections or a body of work) of your own choice. These should be published, exhibited or recorded artworks/writings!
5 Interviews will only be selected from those we have previously published, which we have posted on our blog page!
6 Also include a bio note of not more than 50 words about the author to be published with their work, if selected.
This is a strictly a Zimbabwean anthology, so we will only read and consider work from citizens of Zimbabwe and her diasporas (parents are of Zimbabwean descent).
Send your work to Tendai R Mwanaka at mwanaka@yahoo.com
Deadline for entries is 31 July 2018
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