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Caballo Literary ReviewA Platform for Established and Emerging Equine Writers, Photographers, and Artists
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Submission Guidelines
All works submitted, regardless of category, should be related to the Thoroughbred horse racing industry.
The horse racing industry should play a significant role in the work. Work previously published
or receiving an award at a national-level at the time of submission is not eligible.
How to Send Us Your Work
We accept submissions only through our electronic submission system. We do not accept submissions through postal services or email. You may send creative works for the following submission categories: Established or Emerging Writers: Fiction, Nonfiction; Emerging or Established Poets; Established or Emerging Artists: Paint (Created with a brush); Established or Emerging Sketch Artists (Created with ink, pencil, charcoal, etc.); Established or Emerging Photography (Color, Black and White), and Horsenameograhies: Your Life Told in a Race Horse Name. Your manuscript or art piece must be in one of the following file forms: doc, docx, pdf, and jpeg.
Technical Difficulties
If you have any questions or encounter technical difficulties, please Contact Us @ caballopress@gmail.com.
Formatting Your Manuscript
All manuscripts should be in 12-point type, with at least one-inch margins, and sequentially numbered pages. Fiction and nonfiction should be double-spaced. Poetry should be single-spaced. The author’s name, address, telephone number, and email address should be typed at the top of the first page. Contributors are asked to include a brief biographical note with their submissions. Your name or any identifying markers should not appear anywhere on your submission.
FICTION AND NONFICTION GUIDELINES:
MANUSCRIPTS cannot be longer than 7,000 words, and no less than 500.
Submission should be in a single file and in doc or docx format. No other formats will be accepted.
Only one story is eligible per entry. Manuscripts should have page numbers at bottom
and the name of the piece in the top header. There should be nothing on the
manuscript that identifies the author. Submissions must relate to the Equine industry.
POETRY GUIDELINES:
POETRY submissions may contain up to five poems. Each poem will be judged on its own merits.
The poems should be contained in a single file and in doc or docx format.
No other formats will be accepted. Your submission should give a strong sense of your style and range.
We accept submissions of all poetic forms and genres, but do not accept translations.
PAINTINGS/DRAWINGS/PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES
ART WORK ACCEPTED
Acrylic: paintings executed in watermedia, with acrylic being the dominant (80 percent at least) on any surface;
additions of other media are permissible.
Graphite, charcoal, ink & scratchboard: works that are executed primarily with drawing materials, including pen and ink,
although additions of pastel, watercolor or other media are permissible.
Mixed media and collage: any materials on any surface.
Oil and oil pastel: paintings done in oil-based media on canvas, board, paper, or wood.
Pastel: paintings that are at least 80 percent (soft) pastel on paper or any other surface. NuPastels or other hard pastels are considered soft pastels.
Colored Pencil: works executed primarily (at least 80 percent) in colored pencil;
underlying layers and additions in other media are permissible.
Watercolor & Gouache: paintings executed primarily (at least 80 percent) in watercolor;
additions of gouache, acrylic or other media are permissible.
Art work should be submitted in JPEG format and if selected a winner, th
Photography Accepted
Color or black and white photographs are eligible. Photographs should not be altered in any way.
HOW TO ENTER ART/PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK
You must enter online. All entries must be submitted as digital files. Three submissions allowed per entry.
Image requirements for entries: JPG files (Please try to keep the file size under 5 MB to ensure proper uploading).
The file that you attach is exactly as it will appear to the jurors.
File Quality: All entrants should be prepared to be able to send a hi-resolution print-quality replacement file should their entry be
among those selected as a winner. For publication in Watercolor Artist, these files should be 300 dpi when saved at
approximately 8×10 inches (2400×3600 pixels), ideally, and 5×7 inches (1500×2100 pixels) at minimum.
All works must be original. Each image submitted must be the original and unpublished work of the participant who must also be its copyright owner. Compositions based on published material or other artists’ work are NOT considered original
and are not eligible. Paintings/Photographs executed in a workshop under another artist‘s supervision or
paintings/photographs based on another person’s work (even if it’s copyright-free) are NOT eligible.
Fair Use of All Submissions
By submitting their work for publication, the participant will be regarded as having granted Caballo Literary Journal
the right to use the work in print, broadcast and/or electronic media without any
fee payment, for the purposes of promoting the journal.
Timing: Submissions may be sent to us at any time, year-round.
Simultaneous Submissions: We accept multiple submissions, since we feel that it’s unreasonable to expect writers to give a magazine an exclusive look at a work unless the magazine can respond within two to three weeks. We want writers to have every possible opportunity for success, so we’re willing to risk losing a story we want when someone at another magazine may have done their reading before we have, and in that case we’ll be sorry to lose the piece but happy for the writer.
Response Time: Our response time varies from four to twelve weeks, with the slowest times usually being August/September and December/January.
Submission Fees: Caballo Literary Review is a privately held subsidiary of Caballo Press of Ann Arbor. It is the ambition of the journal to encourage extraordinary literary work and to bring a much needed recognition to this work. The journal will be available exclusively on Amazon and select submissions will be featured on the journal's website on an ongoing basis. Fees help to cover the basic administrative costs related to receiving, reading, and responding to submissions. Also, a portion of all entry fees are donated to Thoroughbred rescues. Our desire is to connect lovers of creative works related to the Equine Industry with accessibility to this work, as well as to bring recognition to the creators of this work. If you wish to submit, we hope you will feel that the entry fee, which is lower than most literary journals, is more than justified by the quality of the work the journal offers. We are strongly committed to publishing debut and emerging creators of Equine related works.
All works submitted, regardless of category, should be related to the Thoroughbred horse racing industry.
The horse racing industry should play a significant role in the work. Work previously published
or receiving an award at a national-level at the time of submission is not eligible.
How to Send Us Your Work
We accept submissions only through our electronic submission system. We do not accept submissions through postal services or email. You may send creative works for the following submission categories: Established or Emerging Writers: Fiction, Nonfiction; Emerging or Established Poets; Established or Emerging Artists: Paint (Created with a brush); Established or Emerging Sketch Artists (Created with ink, pencil, charcoal, etc.); Established or Emerging Photography (Color, Black and White), and Horsenameograhies: Your Life Told in a Race Horse Name. Your manuscript or art piece must be in one of the following file forms: doc, docx, pdf, and jpeg.
Technical Difficulties
If you have any questions or encounter technical difficulties, please Contact Us @ caballopress@gmail.com.
Formatting Your Manuscript
All manuscripts should be in 12-point type, with at least one-inch margins, and sequentially numbered pages. Fiction and nonfiction should be double-spaced. Poetry should be single-spaced. The author’s name, address, telephone number, and email address should be typed at the top of the first page. Contributors are asked to include a brief biographical note with their submissions. Your name or any identifying markers should not appear anywhere on your submission.
FICTION AND NONFICTION GUIDELINES:
MANUSCRIPTS cannot be longer than 7,000 words, and no less than 500.
Submission should be in a single file and in doc or docx format. No other formats will be accepted.
Only one story is eligible per entry. Manuscripts should have page numbers at bottom
and the name of the piece in the top header. There should be nothing on the
manuscript that identifies the author. Submissions must relate to the Equine industry.
POETRY GUIDELINES:
POETRY submissions may contain up to five poems. Each poem will be judged on its own merits.
The poems should be contained in a single file and in doc or docx format.
No other formats will be accepted. Your submission should give a strong sense of your style and range.
We accept submissions of all poetic forms and genres, but do not accept translations.
PAINTINGS/DRAWINGS/PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDELINES
ART WORK ACCEPTED
Acrylic: paintings executed in watermedia, with acrylic being the dominant (80 percent at least) on any surface;
additions of other media are permissible.
Graphite, charcoal, ink & scratchboard: works that are executed primarily with drawing materials, including pen and ink,
although additions of pastel, watercolor or other media are permissible.
Mixed media and collage: any materials on any surface.
Oil and oil pastel: paintings done in oil-based media on canvas, board, paper, or wood.
Pastel: paintings that are at least 80 percent (soft) pastel on paper or any other surface. NuPastels or other hard pastels are considered soft pastels.
Colored Pencil: works executed primarily (at least 80 percent) in colored pencil;
underlying layers and additions in other media are permissible.
Watercolor & Gouache: paintings executed primarily (at least 80 percent) in watercolor;
additions of gouache, acrylic or other media are permissible.
Art work should be submitted in JPEG format and if selected a winner, th
Photography Accepted
Color or black and white photographs are eligible. Photographs should not be altered in any way.
HOW TO ENTER ART/PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK
You must enter online. All entries must be submitted as digital files. Three submissions allowed per entry.
Image requirements for entries: JPG files (Please try to keep the file size under 5 MB to ensure proper uploading).
The file that you attach is exactly as it will appear to the jurors.
File Quality: All entrants should be prepared to be able to send a hi-resolution print-quality replacement file should their entry be
among those selected as a winner. For publication in Watercolor Artist, these files should be 300 dpi when saved at
approximately 8×10 inches (2400×3600 pixels), ideally, and 5×7 inches (1500×2100 pixels) at minimum.
All works must be original. Each image submitted must be the original and unpublished work of the participant who must also be its copyright owner. Compositions based on published material or other artists’ work are NOT considered original
and are not eligible. Paintings/Photographs executed in a workshop under another artist‘s supervision or
paintings/photographs based on another person’s work (even if it’s copyright-free) are NOT eligible.
Fair Use of All Submissions
By submitting their work for publication, the participant will be regarded as having granted Caballo Literary Journal
the right to use the work in print, broadcast and/or electronic media without any
fee payment, for the purposes of promoting the journal.
Timing: Submissions may be sent to us at any time, year-round.
Simultaneous Submissions: We accept multiple submissions, since we feel that it’s unreasonable to expect writers to give a magazine an exclusive look at a work unless the magazine can respond within two to three weeks. We want writers to have every possible opportunity for success, so we’re willing to risk losing a story we want when someone at another magazine may have done their reading before we have, and in that case we’ll be sorry to lose the piece but happy for the writer.
Response Time: Our response time varies from four to twelve weeks, with the slowest times usually being August/September and December/January.
Submission Fees: Caballo Literary Review is a privately held subsidiary of Caballo Press of Ann Arbor. It is the ambition of the journal to encourage extraordinary literary work and to bring a much needed recognition to this work. The journal will be available exclusively on Amazon and select submissions will be featured on the journal's website on an ongoing basis. Fees help to cover the basic administrative costs related to receiving, reading, and responding to submissions. Also, a portion of all entry fees are donated to Thoroughbred rescues. Our desire is to connect lovers of creative works related to the Equine Industry with accessibility to this work, as well as to bring recognition to the creators of this work. If you wish to submit, we hope you will feel that the entry fee, which is lower than most literary journals, is more than justified by the quality of the work the journal offers. We are strongly committed to publishing debut and emerging creators of Equine related works.
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