WestWords & African Australian Advocacy Centre Anthology of African-Australian writing
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MACRH 2023
Callout: Writers Wanted for Anthology
WestWords is a literature development organisation dedicated to creating and sharing the stories of the people, places and cultures that comprise the heart of Western Sydney.
The African Australian Advocacy Centre (AAAC) African Australian Advocacy Centre (AAAC) represents the African Australian Communities in the area of advocacy, research, and policy outcomes in collaboration with different stakeholders including but not limited to non-profit organisations, state and federal government, business, industry, the civil sector, academia and the philanthropic sector.
Together, and building on five years of partnership programs, WestWords and the AAAC are thrilled to invite all writers from an African background to submit their work for consideration in an anthology, responding to the themes of LOSS and BELONGING. This will be a professionally produced collection of writing available as hard copy and online.
For further details see our FAQ section below.
Submission
Pieces must be emailed in Microsoft Word (.doc) format to admin@westwords.com.au.
Sorry, but we cannot accept documents by regular mail, as PDFs, or as images of handwritten material.
IMPORTANT: Closing date is 5pm, Friday 24 March, 2023. We cannot accept submissions after that time.
FAQS
Frequently Asked Questions
We don’t want to put too many ‘rules’ in place. Your piece may be a poem of a few lines, it may be micro-fiction of a couple of hundred words, or it might be up to 10,000 words.
Your preferred style may be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, or essay. Again, it must respond to the themes of LOSS and BELONGING.
No, this is an opportunity to share your story in your voice rather than keeping it to yourself. We believe that having the chance to share your story and your experiences with the world is a wonderful and important thing to do and, as an act of sharing, helps to build bonds of friendship and understanding.
Selected pieces will be edited by professional writers and editors, whose job it is to help guide you through the sometimes difficult and challenging process of preparing and refining work for publication.
No, not at all. We are a non-profit literature development organisation. Our passion and our reason for being is to support people to tell their own stories in their own voices.
Your writing and your story are still yours. The design of the publication is copyright, but your words remain yours.
Of course. You may wish to have no name listed, or use a pen-name. We don’t want to cause anxiety – we want you to experience the thrill of publishing your story.
Pieces must be emailed in Microsoft Word (.doc) format to admin@westwords.com.au. Sorry, but we CANNOT accept documents by regular mail, as PDFs, or as images of handwritten material. IMPORTANT: Closing date is 5pm, Friday 24 March, 2023. We cannot accept submissions after that time
Email questions to admin@westwords.com.au, or call 1800 WESTWORDS.
