Enyo: An Anthology Of Contemporary African Plays

21/12/2020

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12/12/2020

Arts Lounge is set to publish Enyo: An Anthology Of Contemporary African Plays. Please, find details on their page.

Cover design designs Arts Lounge is set to publish Enyo: An Anthology of Contemporary African Plays. The issue titled, Some Love, Some Restore, features plays from notable, contemporary, A…

11/09/2020

We received over 300 submissions for the Enyo anthology. Submissions were sent from different countries in Africa. We are grateful to everyone who submitted their play. It's time to read the plays.

29/08/2020

We are happy to announce our guest editor, Achiro Patricia Olwoch.

Achiro Patricia Olwoch hails from Gulu, in Northern Uganda and she is an award winning writer, playwright and film maker. Achiro was born in exile in Nairobi and grew up in the UK. She studied International Travel at the School of Travel and was the best student overall in her year. After that she studied United Nations Peace Keeping Operations and graduated top of her class. She worked in the airline industry for six years before she started her writing career.

Achiro is has a good sense of imagination and even though she bases her plays and films on real life situations, she adds a twist of imagination to each and every story. She writes because she would like to make a difference in her community through the different stories that she has to tell. She writes because she knows that it is a voice for people who have something to say but do not have the means to.

Achiro has written and produced two plays, created and wrote an award winning TV series and written and produced a number of films and documentaries. She has also written and self-published four books so far. Her books, plays and films are all based on real life stories.

More about Achiro and her works can be found on her website: www.achiropolwoch.com

29/08/2020

We are receiving submissions from different countries in Africa. Have you submitted your play ? We have 11 days left to the deadline. We will be happy to read your play.

Remember, Enyo seeks to reflect places, people, traditions and cultures. We ask for the play you will honestly write, one that could not have been written by someone else if not you. We are not themes restricted. We want plays that transcends reality to the metaphysical, portraying the fine African tradition. Plays that will show the condition of people and individual longings.

08/07/2020

ENYO: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY PLAYS

Enyo is an Igbo word which means mirror. Enyo seeks to reflect places, people, traditions and cultures. We ask for the play you will honestly write, one that could not have been written by someone else if not you. We are not themes restricted. We want plays that transcends reality to the metaphysical, portraying the fine African tradition. Plays that will show the condition of people and individual longings.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
● Submissions that will breach any of these rules will not be read.
● Submit work neatly edited.
● The play should be between the range of 1,500 to 3,500 words. Plays are dialogue fastened and a good playwright should be able to write their play on limited number of words when given as a condition. This does not mean that the play should thrive without the necessary descriptions and, maybe music and dance. Dialogues are the wheels of your play. Samuel Beckett defined the aforementioned for what he did with dialogue in his play: Waiting for the Godot.
● Do not submit musical or children's play.
● Submissions are only open to African writers: the writer should be of an African origin from either of the parents, or both.
● Submission should be sent as doc formatted in TIMES NEW ROMAN, font 12, file named as the title of the work and sent to [email protected]
● The Subject of your email should read: SUBMISSION FOR ENYO, FIRST ISSUE.
● Do not write your name or any identifying information about you on your submission. Only the word count should be written on the body of your email. Submissions are judged and accepted chiefly on merit.
● Writers whose work are accepted will be contacted to send their bio.
● Simultaneous submissions are okay but, please notify us when your work is accepted elsewhere.
● We will consider an excerpt of an unpublished full length play when it can stand alone.
● We do not accept previously published work: submission must not have been published on any medium, forthcoming on a journal or under consideration for publication. And must not have been produced before by a theatre company.
● Do not submit a work translated into English from any of the African languages: submission must originally be written in English.
● The play must be the original work of the contributor.
● Please, your submission must be with the email we would contact you with if your play is accepted.
● The writer should not be below the age of 20 and above 40 years.
● Either of the theatre companies in partnership with us may decide to perform the best plays. The playwrights will be contacted when this happens; to attend the staging of their play. Their transportation, accommodation, and feeding will be taken care of by our team.
● Submission opens: June 23, 2020
● Submission ends: September 10, 2020
● Please, neatly format your play. Dialogues and characters must always be on the same line.
Good luck with your submission,
Enyo

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