Stuur jou submissions vir Ons Klyntji zine 2026

Skermgreep uit Dis óók Klyntji, ’n kortfilm deur Paula Stephanie Kruger en Drianco Fourie

Jaargang 130 (!) wag vir jou gedig / kortverhaal / foto / kunswerk

Mic check, one, two!

In the year of Everyone Suddenly Knowing Where The Strait Of Hormuz Is, we are happy to invite you to send your contributions towards the 2026 edition of Ons Klyntji zine. Established in 1896, Ons Klyntji is a solid 130 years old this year! Glad nie sleg nie.

Stuur daai gedig, kortverhaal, foto, enigiets. Ons Klyntji zine is awaiting your poem, short story or any other creative submission. Email yours to zine@klyntji.com by midnight on 8 July 2026. 

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

Cheers en dankie
The OK zine 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).

• For short stories (Afrikaans / English), the word limit is 2 000 words.

• You may also submit non-fiction (writings about music, road trips, nature, culture, anything really), non-sense, half-sense, faction, friction, something about Ficksburg, new town names should you get to choose them, all the Wi-Fi passwords you’ve ever had, reasons why it’s a bad idea to constantly be asked by a machine to prove that you are human, and so forth.

• Important: Submit in a single Word document and add your name and surname to the top of the document. No PDFs, please. 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 black & white only, and that the book 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 large language model-generated hallucinations – 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 carry the clear ring of integrity. Love poems that quote Magé Troskie lyrics or contain dog names will be preferred over straight-up syrupy ones.

• 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 zine@klyntji.com.

• The deadline is midnight on 8 July 2026.

• Publication is scheduled for mid-September 2026.

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Ons Klyntji zine is an A6, 152-page, black & white paper 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. The zine is edited by Toast Coetzer, Erns Grundling, Joe Botha, Elodi Troskie, Elzanne Coetzee, Andréa Müller and others.