Ons Klyntji zine 2024 call for submissions

Stuur daai gedig, kortverhaal, foto, enigiets! 

The skies are falling on our heads! Hou my vas, korporaal! A Disprin for the diaspora! Ons Klyntji zine is awaiting your poem, short story or any other creative submission. Email yours to zine@klyntji.com or sendusyourpoems@gmail.com by midnight on 14 July 2024. 

See below for the to-dos, to-nots and forget-me-nots. Please also pass on the invite to all your friends, share the love!

Cheers en dankie,
The OK team

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Riglyne / Guidelines:

- Send only your 3 best poems, in any language you please (if other than Afrikaans or English, please provide a translation).

- Important: 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 2000 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), non-sense, half-sense, faction, olfaction, WhatsApp group chat screenshots, a diatribe against alien vegetation, a hospital scan of your broken kleintoontjie, your final words should you get to choose, previously unpublished Chappie paper facts, etc.

- Please do not submit written material in PDF format. We will only consider material submitted in Word. Please spell check before you press send and ask a friend to check for typos. Keep formatting simple.

- Please state your preferred name and surname clearly, especially if you use a nom de plume.

- For images (photos, drawings, cartoons, doodles, etc), submit the material in black & white (grayscale for photos). Material must be high-res Jpg files.

- Keep in mind that we print in B&W only, and that the zine size is very small (A6). Visual material that “reads” well when printed small will be given preference.

- We 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 for your own pocket).

- Copyright remains with individual contributors.

- Please no AI generated art or ChatGPT written poems – except if there is a very good reason to do so, and then please be open about your method.

- There is no theme for submissions. We look for original pieces that capture something of our times – a truth, a sadness, a joy – and carries the clear sound of integrity. Love poems that mention leguans and beer cans will be preferred over those mentioning Woolies readymade meals, if you catch our drift. Actually, Woolies readymade meals could be a good metaphor for something or other… a shotgun wedding?

- If you do not hear from us via email by 30 August, you can assume that your submission was not successful this time around.

- All contributions must be sent to either zine@klyntji.com or sendusyourpoems@gmail.com

- The deadline is midnight on Sunday 14 July 2024.

- Publication is scheduled for mid-September 2024.

What is Ons Klyntji? Ons Klyntji zine is an A6, 152-page, black-and-white print publication celebrating South African and African creativity. We mostly publish poems, but also short stories, cartoons, photographs, etc. We operate under the auspices of klyntji.com (IG: @klyntji), edited by Francois Lion-Cachet. The zine is edited by Toast Coetzer, Erns Grundling, Joe Botha, Elodi Troskie, Elzanne Coetzee and others.