All submissions are welcome. Please send original, unpublished work in any South African language and be careful to keep a copy as we cannot be held responsible for loss or damage to manuscripts and cannot return work.
Simultaneous submission of the same work to several magazines/publishers (including Botsotso) is not acceptable. However, should you wish to withdraw work from Botsotso kindly inform us timeously. All work received is considered by the editorial board (who work on an unpaid, voluntary basis) but due to the high volume of work received we are not always able to respond to each contributor. As such please bear with us if you do not receive feedback!
No payment for published work is offered as our 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. As a non-profit entity we are struggling to achieve financial self-sufficiency - very diffciult goal to achieve as the "market" for new, original South African writing (especially for poetry and short fiction) is extremely small.
Please remember to include your contact details: name, postal and email address, telephone number.
Botsotso magazine appears irregularly as a number of important variables have to be satisfied - quality and diversity of submissions, funding, time to edit! - so please be patient after submitting notwithstanding the fact that material is often placed on the website almost immediately when received. Some work is included in both the electronic and hard copy versions of Botsotso but we reserve the right to publish in one or the other as circumstances change.
Send new work to:
Botsotso Publishing
Box 30952
Braamfontein
2017
or
Email: botsotso@artslink.co.za
About Botsotso
Botsotso is a grouping of poets, writers and artists who wish to both create art as well as to generate the means for its public exposure and appreciation. We speak particularly of art that is of and about the varied cultures and life experiences of people in South Africa as expressed in the many languages spoken and written in our country.
Botsotso is committed to a proliferation of styles and a multiplicity of themes and characters. Multidisciplinary art forms and performances are similarly embraced.
The transition from a closed, authoritarian society to a pluralistic and democratic one offers artists an opportunity to explore the truths of our inner and social lives with a freedom that has not existed before. Flowing from this, the consequences and lessons of Apartheid must still be examined while the challenges of the current period throw up their difficulties, their complexities.
Botsotso works with interaction: the different elements of the South African mosaic colliding, synthesizing - affected both by social forces and the individual's uniqueness.
Contact Information:
For inquiries: botsotso@artslink.co.za
For submissions: botsotso@artslink.co.za
Website: http://www.botsotso.org.za/