The Love Africa Carnival, an online celebration of Africa, continent of 2000 languages, is calling for submissions for the Carnival blog-zine at Book SA:
poems, paragraphs, microfiction, short stories, comic strips, fables, fairytales, essays, captioned photographs, illustrated stories
ON ANY OF THE FOLLOWING THEMES:
Love Africa
Past, present or future of Love in Africa
Place, person, building, book, detail, language, object, insect, animal, or thing, I love in Africa
The day I love most in in my life so far in Africa/ in the history of Africa
Spirits, myths and legends of love in Africa
Sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell I love in Africa
Love –a story for children of Africa
Africa–a Grimm-like fairtale of Love
Carnival architect, Alex Smith writes novels; two published (one fiction, one non-fiction) but mostly they are unpublished and stacking up in whisky boxes around her bedroom. She doesn’t drink whisky, but whisky boxes are a good size for collecting notes, books, pictures, postcards, news clippings, other potentially relevant artifacts and stacks of draft manuscripts. As it turns out each box also happens to relate to a country. Boxes containing the most potential are most easily accessible, the less successful ones are taped up and pushed to the back. All boxes are labeled with a working title. It’s like rotation farming – each box gets a turn for three months (or less if it becomes too troublesome), then it goes out of focus and another box has its moment. In between there must be clover – that’s where collecting kisses comes in. Alex collects fictional kisses.
