🇰🇪 Kenya
2 publications are based in Kenya, and 99 in total confirm in their own guidelines that they are open to writers from here. A further 191 do not state an eligibility rule either way.
A listing is an invitation to pitch, never a promise of acceptance or payment. Every entry links to the publication’s own guideline and the date BRYME last checked it.
Based here
News, analysis, first person, opinion, investigations
Analysis, opinion, reflections and investigations
Open to you by name
These are based elsewhere, but their own guidelines name Kenya or its region. They are closed to most of the world and open to you.
Stories, essays, thinkpieces, rants
Essays, fiction, criticism
Speculative fiction, essays, reviews
Poetry, short story, essay
Speculative short fiction or flash
Read the silence
None of the 2 publications based in Kenya print a pay figure in their own guidelines.
Desk-wide, 184 of the 304 publications BRYME tracks state a rate. The rest are not necessarily unpaid - most simply do not publish a rate card, and BRYME will not print a number the publication has not printed itself. So treat an empty pay row as an unanswered question to put to the editor, not as evidence of anything. Where a record does carry a figure, it is quoted exactly as stated and dated with the day it was read.
For Kenya, that means the 2 records without a figure are the part of this page to test by asking — a commissioned piece is where a rate gets named.
Getting these wrong will not sink a good idea, but they are the fastest way for an editor to tell you have not read them.
| Spelling | -ise and -our, following British convention |
|---|---|
| Dates | 3 April 2026 — day first |
| CV or résumé | CV |
| Quotation | British usage |
A small base of Kenya-based markets, but the Africa-focused international calls below are open to Kenyan writers by name.
Before you pitch
