ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
Pan Writers Caravan is an African-based literary arts (all genre) caravan advancing word-culture integration/civilization/diversity/beauty among young & established talents through personal essays, fiction, hybrid, poetry, reportage & more.
ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY
Our themes for our literary arts anthology, titled African Literary Arts: One Contemporaneous Anthology Celebrating the Global Diaspora (including African culture & society but not limited from circumAtlantic transpositions of United States Africa & African America/African Haiti & Dominica, African England & Eastern Europe as well as African Asia, etc.) are celebratory, variegated, ubiquitous, and unifying of Africa: spanning the beauty of African sex & sexualities, food & cuisine, rivers & mountains, rituals & dialects, tribes & politics, spirituality & morality. This multi-genre collection, numbering tentatively 350-450 pages in length, will include prosodies of hybrid narratives & short story, memoirs & personal essays, poetry, artwork and several other literary keepsakes, nuggets and gemstones.
Lived experience, readership and scholarship in the plethora of Africa & African Diaspora Literature & Literary Arts are held in utmost esteem and highest regard; established, the Editors remain open to all shared experiences of African Diaspora globally deemed of creative possibility to this subjective readership, seeking works beyond the “canonical” or even expected measures taken literarily in equal focus (African National canons considered and surveyed) upon the newly established “anthological.” Moreover, the Editors will be equally intrigued, in balanced coexistence with more traditionally informed instances of writing & other creative endeavors, with these implied instances of the experimental in submissions, and perhaps relatedly & especially ones creating new traditions &/or experimental divergences from the “norms,” identities inclusive albeit never limited to Disabled, Queer, Femme, Low Income &/or other voices speaking from marginalization for this particular anthology of Africa Diasporic Literary Arts, as it were.
Such as balancing singing & drum parts in tribal celebration circles in African communities globally, we hope to join together with our future Contributors, gleefully taking heart and educated by our Submitters as a whole, to create one, quite powerful musical number of which to bear witness as one. These writings, for which notions of “quality” surfacing from the readers here & there, however apparent, seek actively and perseveringly to complement the distinguished & acclaimed beauty of the quite musical writing established by Contributors of this African Diasporic anthology in & of itself, compelled to blossom whilst preserving itself: onward & upward, globally & thus humanly, harmoniously. Together.
Deadline: Aug. 15, 2023
Payment: Minimum of $50 plus contributor's copies
More information and submission link here.
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