Call for Poems | Refugees Are as British as Fish and Chips

[Ambrose Musiyiwa]

Dear Colleagues,

The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series invites poems and short prose focusing on the escalating tragedy of refugee deaths in the English Channel (La Manche).

We are looking for original works that can serve as essential witness, critiquing the systemic factors - political, economic, and historical - that lead to how human beings fleeing persecution are perishing in the cold waters of the Strait of Dover.

We are looking for poems that remember the dead and which confront the policies, ideologies and beliefs that make these deaths permissible and the people unmournable.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Poems: 40 lines or less; Short Fiction/Prose: 100 words or less.
Submission Limit: A maximum of three pieces in total.
Format: Submissions must be included in the body of an email or as a single .doc attachment; Include a short biography (50 words or less).
Send to: forcedmigrat...@gmail.com
Deadline: Friday, 31 October 2025.

Full submission guidelines and details are available here.

Kind regards,

Ambrose Musiyiwa

Coordinator, Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series

Ambrose Musiyiwa | Coordinator, Journeys in Translation, (Journal Article; Video Playlist; Book Series) and The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series (Video Playlist; Call for Submissions; Funding Appeal) | (Ed.) [New Book] Japa Fire: An Anthology of Poems on African and African Diasporic Migration (CivicLeicester, 2024. Co-edited with Munya R); Welcome to Britain: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction (CivicLeicester, 2023); Black Lives Matter: Poems for a New World (CivicLeicester, 2020)