🟢 Rolling submissions🔵 SubmittedNigeria
The Lagos Review
Personal essay
- Pay
- $250 per published essay
- Words
- Up to 1,500 words
- Eligible
- The official call does not state a nationality restriction
- Verified
- 2026-08
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Writing opportunities in Nigeria
5 publications are based in Nigeria, and 98 in total confirm in their own guidelines that they are open to writers from here. A further 192 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
5 publications based in Nigeria
🟢 Currently accepting🔴 RejectedNigeria
The Republic
Personal Essay
- Pay
- ₦100,000≈ $76 USD
- Words
- 2,001–3,000 words
- Eligible
- The official submissions page does not state a nationality restriction
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Rolling submissions🟡 Research onlyNigeria
Oriire
Long-form, folktales, essays, interviews, heritage reviews, listicles, encounters
- Pay
- ₦10,000 per article; ₦5,000 per codex entry≈ $3.78–$11 USD
- Words
- Not publicly stated
- Eligible
- The official submissions page does not state a nationality restriction
- Verified
- 2026-08
🔴 Currently closed🟡 Research onlyNigeria
Agbowó
Essay / nonfiction
- Pay
- ₦50,000≈ $38 USD
- Words
- 750–3,500 words
- Eligible
- The official essays section does not list countries
- Verified
- 2026-08
🔴 Currently closed🟡 Research onlyNigeria
Omenana
Speculative fiction, essays, reviews
- Pay
- $20 per published story
- Words
- Short fiction up to 5,000; flash up to 1,000; essays/CNF up to 3,000; reviews 800–2,000
- Eligible
- Artists and writers from Africa and the African diaspora
- Verified
- 2026-08
Open to you by name
4 more that specifically welcome writers from Nigeria
These are based elsewhere, but their own guidelines name Nigeria or its region. They are closed to most of the world and open to you.
🟢 Currently accepting🟢 Accepted, scheduledOpen to all
Afrolicious
Stories, essays, thinkpieces, rants
- Pay
- $75
- Words
- 600–800 words
- Eligible
- Black Africans and Black African diasporas
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Rolling submissions🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Transition Magazine
Essays, fiction, criticism
- Pay
- Pays contributors
- Words
- Variable
- Eligible
- Centers Africa and the African diaspora; strongly relevant to African and diaspora writers
- Verified
- 2026-09
🔴 Currently closed🔵 SubmittedSouth Africa
Efiko Magazine
Poetry, short story, essay
- Pay
- ₦20,000 or ₦30,000 (Nigerian bank account)≈ $15–$23 USD
- Words
- Prose 1,200–5,000 words; poetry 2–5 poems / 10 pages
- Eligible
- Writers of African origin based anywhere in the world, or anyone writing about Africa
- Verified
- 2026-09
🟡 Opens soon🟡 Research onlyCanada
khōréō
Speculative short fiction or flash
- Pay
- 10¢ per word
- Words
- Under 5,000 words (prefer under 3,500)
- Eligible
- Official: submit if you identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions — including first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, people displaced by colonialism/imperialism, and anyone whose heritage includes ‘here and elsewhere’
- Verified
- 2026-08
Read the silence
Reading the figures on this page
All 5 publications based in Nigeria 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.
House style when you write for Nigeria
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, and a photo is conventional and often expected, unlike in the US or UK |
| Quotation | British usage |
Nigerian publications rarely publish a rate, which is why BRYME lists comparatively few. Several international markets specifically welcome African writers — they are listed below.
Before you pitch