Africa: Call for poetry
Agenda requests poetry contributions that explore the outcomes of the Nairobi+21 conference, their impact on women’s rights today, 21 years later, and where to from now. As the first international women’s conference on African soil, the Nairobi Conference in 1985 discussed ways to fend for women’s rights and gender equality that would, for the first time, be informed by the agendas of women from the South.
Contributions should reflect the contradictions, complexities, challenges and successes for African women two decades after the Nairobi conference in one or more of the following key areas:
• Poverty
• Education
• Health
• Violence against women
• Media
• Environment
• Human rights
• Political power and decision-making
Length of poetry contributions: Poems to fit on ¼, ½ or full page of Agenda
Journal.
Deadline: 8 July 2006
Submission requirements:
All submissions must be emailed to [email][email protected]
All submitted poems must come with a picture and bio of the author.
If you would like to publish anonymously please state so clearly in your
submission.
Articles that have not been selected for the Journal will be published onto
the Agenda website.
If you do not want your poem published on our website please state so
clearly in your submission.
Only successful applications will be contacted.