Deadline: July 10, 2024
Calling all African women aspiring editors! Cassava Republic is delighted to be hosting a residential editorial workshop this September for African women living on the continent and interested in editing non-fiction. Alongside their African Women’s Non-Fiction Writing Workshop and their Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Prize, this workshop is part of their mission to increase Black women’s participation in the nonfiction space.
Great writing requires great editors, and they want to nurture and encourage Black women editors to work on and help shape these critical, thoughtful and inspiring works of non-fiction by Black women. Enter now for a chance to work closely with the critically acclaimed editor, Ellah Wakatama and edit an essay to be published in an Anthology.
The residential workshop will take place in September over 10 days. Aspiring editors will have the opportunity to learn all the skills and techniques to be a great nonfiction editor; they will share and improve their editing skills, culminating in a final essay that they will edit to be published in an anthology by Cassava Republic Press.
Cost
- Travel, accommodation and food will all be provided for, and participants need only bring themselves and a willingness to learn!
Eligibility
- Open to African women living on the continent;
- Have demonstrated interest in editing non-fiction;
- They accept submissions from editor’s who self-identify as a woman and accept submissions from non-binary editors who are not opposed to the term.
Application
Applicants are asked to submit a CV and cover letter. The cover letter should include your editorial philosophy – what do you believe the role of an editor is and how do you approach a piece of writing as an editor. Applications close at 23:59GMT on July 10, 2024.
For more information, visit Cassava Republic Workshop.
