Guidelines for Art
KAKALAK 2009
Anthology of Carolina Poets
Art Contest Guidelines
Second Place $75 & Third Place $50
We will Not accept Simultaneous Submissions or previously published work.
All work published by Kakalak must, in future publications (including online), credit Kakalak as first place of publication.
• Open to natives and current residents of North & South Carolina
• Entries must be postmarked by January 10, 2009
• Screening by editors Lisa Zerkle, Richard Taylor, and Beth Cagle Burt.
• Only Black & White visual art or Black & White representations of visual art will be considered for the competition.
• Artists entering the Black & White art competition may (at their discretion) send a few pieces of color visual art in addition to their regular submission for possible consideration as the anthology cover only. Cover images work best in Horizontal, but either is acceptable. Submit either Vertical or Horizontal for inside book choices. Again, color work will Not be considered for the visual art competition.
Official Rules:
1. Submit 1 to 5 pieces, any style, any subject, printed on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. No email submissions, please. Submit copies as artwork will not be returned. We encourage presentation of any type of visual art from acrylics, watercolors, charcoal, and photography to photographs of sculptures, ceramics, and installations. Black and white representations only.
2. Artwork must be original, unpublished in any medium (print or electronic magazine; however, art in personal electronic galleries is acceptable), not have been selected for a monetary prize, or under consideration in any other contest.
3. Artist’s name, address, phone number, and email address must be provided on a cover sheet accompanying the art and must NOT appear anywhere on the art. The titles of the artwork should appear on the cover sheet and on the back of the artwork. The cover sheet should also detail the chosen mediums for each piece and the artist’s 30-word (max.) bio in third person.
4. Entries must be postmarked by January 10, 2009. Please include email address for notification if possible. Otherwise, enclose a SASE for notification. No entries will be returned. All entrants will be notified by March 1, 2009.
5. Entry fee: $10 nonrefundable check or money order payable to Kakalak Poetry. $10 fee covers up to five pages of art.
6. All artists selected for publication will be required to sign a publishing agreement. All rights revert to artist upon publication. Artists selected for publication will be required to forward a 300 dpi rendition of their work as a jpeg or .tif file via email, disk, or CD to cagleburt@gmail.rr.com.
Please send entries to:
Kakalak Poetry
4057 North Course Drive
Charlotte, NC 28277
Questions: kakalakpoetry@aol.com