Submissions
Submissions are now closed.
If you have not heard from us within three to six months of your submission, please consider it unsuccessful.
Please take note of the following:
Submission Form
Submissions closed on 29 November 2025.
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As we receive a very high volume of submissions...
... and strive to give each one the consideration it deserves, it can take us some time to work through everything. We’re a small team and the consideration process, on average, can take anything from 3 months to 6 months; so please be patient with us.
We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts from these genres:
- Poetry
- Novellas
- Teen fiction / young adult fiction
- Scripts (drama, theatre, film or television)
- Religion/spiritual
If you do not have a full manuscript to submit, don’t panic.
You can submit the first 4 completed chapters with a short synopsis of the manuscript. If you do not submit a full manuscript, please state as such in the manuscript description portion of the below form.
We understand that, as an author, you want as great a chance to have your manuscript published as possible.
It would be unfair of us to make you put your project on hold while we take time to decide things. But please let us know if you are offered a publication deal elsewhere after submitting to us, so that we can update our list of submissions to be reviewed.
With Best Wishes, The Jacana Submissions Team
Enquiries can be directed to: submissions@jacana.co.za
Submission Form
Submissions closed on 29 November 2025.
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