Africans in Ukraine: a Call for Poems, Short Stories and Creative Nonfiction

CivicLeicester and the Africans in Ukraine Education Fund are inviting and accepting poems, short stories and creative nonfiction (including memoir, diary entries, chronicles, biographical and autobiographical accounts, letters and other narratives) on the theme, Africans in Ukraine . We welcome submissions exploring: the lived experience of being an African in Ukraine what brought Africans to Ukraine their lives in Ukraine before the current Ukraine-Russian War what happened when the war broke out experiences of and flight from the conflict the images, issues, histories, lives and demands that Africans in Ukraine are highlighting the reception Africans got in neighbouring countries or in their countries of origin, and what happens or what should happen next . We welcome submissions from writers of all ages, based anywhere in the world. We particularly welcome submissions from people of African descent who were living and studying in Ukraine and those who witnessed or are witnessing