Submission

Pitches and submissions

The Republic

Open. No closing date published. No fee to apply Last checked 5 Oct

At a glance

Deadline: Open. No closing date published.
Fee: No fee to apply
Who may apply: at least two or three links to work you have already published
Where: written from anywhere, the subject is Nigeria and Africa

Not a contest: a journal pays you if it takes your piece. A Nigerian journal that pays for writing and photography and says so on its rate card: 150 US dollars for a personal essay of 1,500 to 2,500 words, with rates varying by format and length. It takes reportage, profiles, interviews, criticism, fiction and photo essays. Payment lands within 30 days of publication.

The facts

What you get: 150 US dollars for a personal essay of 1,500 to 2,500 words. The journal says rates vary by format, length and editorial demands, and a recent themed call offered 150 to 350 US dollars per accepted story. If you are based in Nigeria or use a Nigerian bank account, you are paid in naira at the Central Bank rate.
Where: written from anywhere, the subject is Nigeria and Africa
How long: payment within 30 days of publication
Share of the prize or equity they take: You keep the work.

Where you stand

This one is free. There is no fee to apply, and nobody should ask you for money at any point.

What they ask for

at least two or three links to work you have already published
you have to create an account on their site to submit

Get ready to apply

Built only from what this listing states.

The application takes real work, by our reading.

1. What to get ready

It asks for something outside the usual documents; read it below.

In their words: “a Word document with the proposed title, why the story is important, how you will approach it, people you will interview and places you will visit, plus at least two or three links to previously published work”

2. Dates

No closing date is stated.
Openings with no closing date can close once they have enough people, so sooner is safer. Our advice
On the date, the listing says: the general submissions route has no closing date. Individual themed calls for pitches do, and are posted separately.

Download checklist (.txt) Send to WhatsApp

The download is a small text file. You can read it later without data. It also lists each condition they set, so you can tick yourself against them. WhatsApp sends the same list to you, or to somebody helping you.

No CV yet? Make a plain one from your answers. Nothing you type is kept.

Tips for applying for a submission

General advice from us, the same for every submission. It is not what this organisation says; that is above.

Read the guidelines first: length, format, language and theme.
Check who owns your work after you send it. The rules usually say.
Send it a day early. Upload pages are often slow near a deadline.

All our tips and messages to copy. Practise answering, with nothing kept. Received an offer? Check whether it is real, then read before you say yes.

How to apply

You apply on The Republic's own website, not here. We never send an application for anybody and we never ask you for anything to pass on. Check their page for anything not shown here.

Go to the application

How we checked this

This was opened and verified at The Republic's own website on 5 October 2026: it was real, still open, and open to people from African countries. If anything here is wrong, tell us.