Deadline: rolling
Send original, unpublished work in any South African language. All submissions are welcome. Be careful to keep a copy when submitting. Please remember to include your contact details: name, postal and email address, telephone number. Send submissions to .
Does not accept simultaneous submission. However, should you wish to withdraw work from Botsotso, kindly inform the team. All work received is considered by the editorial board but due to the high volume of work received team might not always able to respond to each contributor.
No payment for published work is offered as budget is very limited but selected work will qualify you for a complimentary copy of the magazine. Copyright of all published material remains with the writer/artist but the proceeds from the sale of Botsotso magazine are used for new projects.
Botsotso magazine appears irregularly as a number of important variables have to be satisfied – quality and diversity of submissions, funding, time to edit – but the team does attempt to produce at least one edition a year. Some work is included in both the electronic and hard copy versions of Botsotso but they reserve the right to publish in one or the other as circumstances change.