Lolwe is looking for work that is bold, different, and blurs or pushes boundaries: play with form and language, ignore the limitations and classifications, send in your fears and joys, your doubts and faiths, your curiosities and silences.

Submissions should be drama, orature, translation, hybrid writing, and visual art.

Submissions in the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry categories will be from the Lolwe Academy alumni only except where solicited. Please don't send us work in these categories as they will be automatically rejected.

Please read the submission guidelines carefully and send us your work to the right category via Submittable. Any work sent via email  or to the wrong category will not be read and will be automatically rejected.

Please submit a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 10 images/artwork from the same project. Also submit a short essay with the project.

For the cover image, please submit a single high resolution photo. You must be the copyright holder of the image.

Please submit a one-act play.

Please submit a work of hybrid-genre writing between 1000-10000 words. This must be a work of hybrid form, blending two or more categories.

Please submit a translation of a short story, poem, or essay. Translations can be from or into English. Please include the original piece too. Kindly ensure that you have secured the permissions necessary from the original author. Maximum 10000 words. 

Email info@lolwe.org with any queries.

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