I sent you my work but you haven’t got back to me. Why?

Sorry about that. We try to work through the submitted writing as quickly as we can. In December 2021, we moved to a new system whereby writing can only be submitted through the LoveWriting platform. We aim to go through all writing that has been submitted for review within a 14 day period. Writing will either be reviewed and returned to the writer with feedback OR it will be reviewed and published on the site.

Under the old system, we edited work and uploaded it separately. This did take a long time to do and there were a number of backlogs. If you can see that you submitted something and it was never published, then rather submit it again through our new LoveWriting space as this is far more efficient and easy to use.

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246 Responses

Hi Lindokuhle, sorry you feel this way! You are right, at the moment we do have a backlog and are trying to get work out but are behind schedule. Our aim is not to edit Fanz work - like Wattpad, we publish basically as is, though unlike Wattpad we do sometimes send work back with helpful editing comments. Hope you don't give up on us..!

Team Fundza · 2 weeks ago

"We aim to go through all writing that has been submitted for review within a 14 day period" this is definitely a lie. It takes more than three weeks, sometimes four, for you guys to publish a story. This is bad because enthusiasm is killed among the writers. Some of us are losing interest in publishing here. The editing skills of the reviewers is also poor. A lot of stories are published with their mistakes and errors. Fundza sucks. I'd rather go to wattpad.

Lindokuhle Matlala · 2 weeks ago

Hello, I submitted my work a week ago and then later resubmitted it, will it have to go through the 14 days of review yet again?

Bongiwe Nkuna · 2 weeks ago

@ Tiana Mthembu l submitted my story a long time ago it's been a month now and my story has not yet been reviewed so to console you ,our time will come

Gønē girll · 4 weeks ago

It has been weeks and weeks ever since I sent my story and it has been in review since forever. I'm losing interest in writing here on Fundza

Tiana Mthembu · a month ago

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