Submit to Illino!
What kind of work are we looking for?
This cycle, we’re looking for submissions that push the bounds of language and indigenous stories! What does it mean to really represent African thought in English? What does it mean to expand local folklore, proverbs, and riddles through your writing? If your work is linguistically innovative, if it plays on commonly told stories, or if it sits on the fringe of familiar and new, then send it our way! Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Here’s some of our work that plays around with language and folklore:
All Genres are Welcome!
Final Notes
Compensation
Compensation for work starts at $20.
Submission Formatting
Learn more about how you can format your short story submission using this online article
Please contact us with any questions you have
We look forward to receiving your submission!
Born to a teenage mother and toughened by his grandmother’s relentless hands, Obed grows up in the heart of a bustling market, where survival is an art. He learns to bounce—through hardship, through crime, through the thin line between life and death. But when he crosses a spirit he shouldn’t have, the boy who always lands on his feet may finally take a fall he can’t recover from.