About Mazwi
The idea of MAZWI has been a seed growing in me for several years. My first shot at magazine publishing was a couple of years ago when I was a 19-year old lad and teamed up with the legendary Zimbabwean poet Julius Chingono and an enterprising young editor Aleck Kaposa to produce The New Voices Magazine, which we funded with personal contributions. It was a rewarding experience working with young writers in Zimbabwe. The magazine only survived two years. Inflation swallowed the dream. Ever since writing has taken me to a few countries in Africa and Europe. This literary enterprise aims to work with and promote new writing by Africa’s talented writers and poets. There is nothing as wonderful as working with writers in perfecting their art. Indeed, for me, there are few pleasures than working with writers: to be among the first to read something which an author has pored over a long time, to share ideas, feelings, through the medium of words weighed and filtered through your fingers like grains of warm sand, is a rare, often exciting, privilege. Serious publishing is about broadcasting ideas and making them visible, tangible.
My passion for Africa is another motivation to set up this project. MAZWI Literary Journal will in essence celebrate the continent’s diversity and quality of perpetual beauty expressed in the only way we know – mazwi (words) – and as truthfully as we can.
MAZWI Literary Journal aims to empower people with new ideas, new language, new ways of seeing the world and sharing experiences. We hope the stories we publish will affect the lives of the people who read them.
Submission Guidelines
Please send contributions for consideration using the following guidelines:
Poetry: should be experimental, exhibit a unique mastery of language, imagery, allusions. There are no theme specifications as the idea is not to pigeon-hole writers to think in guided-way.
Short story: should be no more than 6000 words. If you have got something that you think is incredible but runs over the limit, query first.
Non-fiction: should be well written personal essays on African literature, social, political and cultural issues as well as other interesting stories told from unique perspectives.
Copyright
MAZWI Literary Journal is published by MAZWI Media. Commercial use of the copyrighted texts and images is not permitted without express consent of MAZWI and its authors. If you have any queries please contact us.