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In 2019, Botur was featured at the Rotorua Noir Crime Writing Festival.

In mid-2019, Botur launched a programme of publishing short stories every day for 100 days on social media and encouraged other New Zealand writers to do the same. The #100NZStories100days campaign encouraged Kiwi writers to post links to flash fiction and short prose already published in literary magazines and blogs. Botur said in an NZ Book Council news story: "I have a philosophy of ‘There’s no time like the present’ with a lot of my publishing. Fiction writers endure many forces which delay the publication of our work when we're keen to share it with the world. Life is short and I don't think it's right that publishers and competitions will keep an author waiting up to 12 months to share their work with the world."

Botur's awards include: Short Story Land 6-Month Competition - 1st place 2019 Whangarei Libraries Flash Fiction Competition 2019 – 2nd Northland Short Story Award – for highest Northland place in the National Flash Fiction Day Competition North & South Short Story Story Competition 2019 – 2nd

Born in Christchurch, Botur first began publishing poetry and experimental fiction as an English major at the University of Otago. He was part of a group publishing the creative writing zine Blindswimmer. Botur's earliest creative writing publication credits, between 2004 and 2009, were in New Zealand and international literary magazines, zines and websites including Takahe, JAAM, Bravado, The Lumiere Reader, Prima Storia, Deep South, Catalyst, Sidestream, Insight, Subject, Blindswimmer, A3, Critic, Potroast, Debate and F*nk, Canada's The Med and NiL. He won the Her magazine short story competition in 2008. Botur completed a Master of Creative Writing degree in 2009, publishing a collection of short stories as his thesis including a dissertation on subcultures, then trained as a journalist with Massey University, graduating at the beginning of 2015. Botur essayed in The Spinoff on 26 July 2017 about moving to Northland in 2015 and "finding income and inspiration in its very small economy", working at The Warehouse and other labour-intensive jobs, and finding story ideas.

Michael Stephen Botur (born 8 March 1984) is an author from New Zealand described as being "a writer considered one of the most original story writers of his generation in New Zealand."