Hotazel Review

Permanently Closed: This project is permanently closed to submissions (April 2025). We provide the following information as an archive.

About

Hotazel Review is independent, unfunded, and edited by volunteers. We are not affiliated with any university or university programme. The journal appears once a year and is online only. We have high aspirations, hoping to inspire collaboration among artists and writers worldwide. We like peaceful people, sea glass, talking roses, and also hadedas, most of the time. Our editors have close ties with Africa, so we give writers and artists from Africa, and it’s diaspora, some extra love, but everybody is welcome. We enjoy diversity. Here is a home for African writers and African artists, as well as everyone else. The journal was founded during the hard lockdown in South Africa in 2021. Hotazel Review, with sadness and love, remembers those who lost their lives in the pandemic.

Country of Publication & Year Established

South Africa

Established in 2021

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Unknown publication frequency

Collapse section Fiction Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

General Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Fabulism, Slipstream
Fantasy Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Fabulism, Slipstream
Science Fiction Open to all/most Subgenres, including: Slipstream

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: Up to 500 words.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

Collapse section Poetry Closed

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Lengths:

Poem: Up to 30 lines; Up to 3 pieces.

Poetry Forms:

Open to all/most Forms, including: Experimental poetry, Prose poetry.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Literary.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Method: Email.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Last Updated: 22 May 2026