Guidelines for Art

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 Artwork must be original, unpublished in any medium (print or electronic magazine; however, art in personal electronic galleries is acceptable), not have been selected for a monetary prize, or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, 2008. Include SASE for notification or indicate on cover sheet if email notification is preferred. No entries will be returned. All entrants will be notified by March 1, 2008.

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@carolina.rr.com.