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Call for submissions: Ons Klyntji zine 2025
6 July 2025
Ons Klyntji zine is an A6, 152-page, black-and-white paper publication celebrating South African and African creativity. They mostly publish poems, but also short stories, cartoons, photographs, etc. They operate under the auspices of klyntji.com. The zine is edited by Toast Coetzer, Erns Grundling, Joe Botha, Elodi Troskie, Elzanne Coetzee, Andréa Müller and others.
Submissions are open for your contributions towards the 2025 edition of Ons Klyntji zine. Send your poems, shortstories, photo’s and art. There is no theme for submissions. They are looking for original pieces that capture something of our times – a truth, a sadness, a joy – and carries the clear ring of integrity.
Guidelines:
- Send only your 3 best poems, in any language you please (if other than Afrikaans or English, please provide a translation).
- Submit in a single Word document and add your name and surname to the top of the document. No PDFs please.
- For short stories (Afr / Eng), the word limit is 2 000 words. Submit in Word format and add your name to the top of the story. No PDFs please.
- You may also submit non-fiction (writings about music, road trips, nature, culture, anything really).
- For images (photos, drawings, cartoons, doodles, etc), submit the material in black-and-white (grayscale for photos). Material must be high-res Jpg files.
- Keep in mind that we print in B&W only, and that the book size is very small (A6). Visual material that “reads” well when printed small will be given preference.
They do not pay contributors, but everyone who gets published will receive a free copy and can buy extra copies at near-cost (which you can then sell on for your own pocket).
Email your submissions to zine@klyntji.com by midnight on 6 July 2025. Publication is scheduled for mid-September 2025.