So you want to enter the anthology that will be "Kneel Downe's Stolen Indie" do you? Brilliant! Welcome aboard. However, before you excitedly spend your precious time writing or drawing/painting, please take a moment to read the Terms and Conditions of entry so you aren't disappointed if we can't publish you. These are unfortunately necessary rules as there is both a printing restriction and some legal requirements that need to be adhered to.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Submitting work to this anthology indicates your agreement of all the terms and conditions below.
Written Work
Please send entries via email to VirulentBlurb@gmail.com with the subject header Anthology.
Entries may be in any style – poetry or prose – but must be 1000 words or fewer, excluding the title.
Please include the title of your work and your name as you would wish it to appear in the anthology in your email. If you have a website and would like it linked to your entry if it is published on the VirulentBlurb website, please add that information to your email. If you are on Twitter and want to be tweeted when your work appears on the VirulentBlurb website (see Prizes) please also include that.
We are not able to accept collaborative written work, although art collaborations (one artist, one letterer) are accepted (see below).
You may enter as many times as you wish but each author may only be selected by the judges to appear once in the printed anthology, although multiple entries may be published on the VirulentBlurb website.
The anthology will be aimed at a mature audience so entries do not have to be deemed “safe for work” and may include swearing, violence and other themes of an adult nature.
All work should be based on the theme “Stolen” and cannot have been previously published.
PLEASE, NO FAN FICTION. We cannot accept stories or poems that use characters or scenarios recognisable from other work that you do not have the copyright for, so e.g. no Doctor Who, Batman, Sherlock, VirulentBlurb etc. If you have an established character of your own from previous published work that you have full rights to, we can accept those.
The filename of attachments must be the title of the entry and it must be either a .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf or .txt file. You may also send in your entry within the body of your email rather than as an attachment but please make it obvious where the entry begins and ends.
Art Work
Please send entries via email to VirulentBlurb@gmail.com with the subject header Anthology Cover.
The anthology will be US Trade Size, portrait, 6” x 9” or 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm so please proportion your design to fit.
The artwork may be of any type, whether photography, hand or digitally created or combination of these, as long as the final submitted image is digital and of the required size and quality as stated below. We cannot accept paper copies of entries.
The filename of attachments must be your name and it must be either a .pdf, .tif, .png or .jpg file of a resolution no larger than 800 x 1200 and 150 dpi in the first instance. If your entry is chosen to be the cover you will be asked to provide a file that is at least 300 dpi, 1800 x 2700 in order to create the cover at a printable quality.
The anthology will be aimed at a mature audience but the cover image should be considered as being “safe for work” and should not be overly graphically, sexual or violent in nature.
All work should be based on the theme “Stolen” and cannot have been previously used in a publication or sold for profit.
You do not have to include the titles within your design but, if you wish to, it should read:
“Kneel Downe’s Stolen Indie” and have “An Anthology” on a separate line.
The writing may be in upper, mixed or lower case and in any typeface that is freely available for commercial use or is designed by you and hand lettered.
You may enter as many times as you wish but each author may only be selected by the judges to appear once in the printed anthology, although multiple entries may be published on the VirulentBlurb website.
The anthology will be aimed at a mature audience so entries do not have to be deemed “safe for work” and may include swearing, violence and other themes of an adult nature.
All work should be based on the theme “Stolen” and cannot have been previously published.
PLEASE, NO FAN FICTION. We cannot accept stories or poems that use characters or scenarios recognisable from other work that you do not have the copyright for, so e.g. no Doctor Who, Batman, Sherlock, VirulentBlurb etc. If you have an established character of your own from previous published work that you have full rights to, we can accept those.
The filename of attachments must be the title of the entry and it must be either a .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf or .txt file. You may also send in your entry within the body of your email rather than as an attachment but please make it obvious where the entry begins and ends.
Art Work
Please send entries via email to VirulentBlurb@gmail.com with the subject header Anthology Cover.
The anthology will be US Trade Size, portrait, 6” x 9” or 15.24 cm x 22.86 cm so please proportion your design to fit.
The artwork may be of any type, whether photography, hand or digitally created or combination of these, as long as the final submitted image is digital and of the required size and quality as stated below. We cannot accept paper copies of entries.
The filename of attachments must be your name and it must be either a .pdf, .tif, .png or .jpg file of a resolution no larger than 800 x 1200 and 150 dpi in the first instance. If your entry is chosen to be the cover you will be asked to provide a file that is at least 300 dpi, 1800 x 2700 in order to create the cover at a printable quality.
The anthology will be aimed at a mature audience but the cover image should be considered as being “safe for work” and should not be overly graphically, sexual or violent in nature.
All work should be based on the theme “Stolen” and cannot have been previously used in a publication or sold for profit.
You do not have to include the titles within your design but, if you wish to, it should read:
“Kneel Downe’s Stolen Indie” and have “An Anthology” on a separate line.
The writing may be in upper, mixed or lower case and in any typeface that is freely available for commercial use or is designed by you and hand lettered.
If you with to collaborate with someone to do your lettering for you (one artist, one letterer only please), please include their name and details with your own as an equal partner and ensure they have read these Terms and Conditions.
Please include your name(s) as you would wish it to appear in the anthology and in any further credits in your email. If you have a website and would like it linked to your entry when it is published on the VirulentBlurb website, please add that information to your email. If you are on Twitter and want to be tweeted when your work appears on the VirulentBlurb website (see Prizes) please also include that.
Please include your name(s) as you would wish it to appear in the anthology and in any further credits in your email. If you have a website and would like it linked to your entry when it is published on the VirulentBlurb website, please add that information to your email. If you are on Twitter and want to be tweeted when your work appears on the VirulentBlurb website (see Prizes) please also include that.
If your artwork does not include the titles and is chosen to be the cover, you will work with Blurb artist in residence Susan Omand to come up with a graphic design that you both agree will be used.
You may enter as many times as you wish and multiple entries may be published on the VirulentBlurb website although only one entry over all will be selected for use as the book cover.
PLEASE, NO FAN ART. We cannot accept images that use characters or scenarios recognisable from other work that you do not have the copyright for, so e.g. no Doctor Who, Batman, Sherlock, VirulentBlurb etc.
General Terms & Conditions
Deadline
The deadline date for ALL entries is 11:59 pm (UK time) on Wednesday 23rd March 2016 so make sure you submit your email in plenty of time.
Eligibility
Entry is open to creators of any age and nationality, written work in English please, aged 18 years old and over at the time of the closing date.
Entries must be entirely the work of the creator and by submitting you are confirming that the work is your own and you own all the commercial rights and full copyright, including, for artwork, any electronic fonts or photographs used. Any evidence to the contrary will result in immediate disqualification and may result in legal action.
Receipt of entry
Receipt of all written work and artwork entries will be confirmed by email. No other correspondence will be entered into until judging has been completed.
Copyright
Worldwide copyright of each entry, artwork or written work, remains with the creator but the VirulentBlurb will have the unrestricted right to publish ANY entry, giving creator credit, on the VirulentBlurb website and in the charity anthology (both printed and e-book versions) and to mention the work, use in full or as excerpts in any promotion relevant to the anthology. The anthology editor reserves the right to edit written work for unintentional spelling and grammar errors and to add page breaks as necessary to fit the printed page but will not edit for content or readability so please make sure you are happy for your work to appear “as is” on the website and in the book.
Judging
NOT EVERY WRITTEN SUBMISSION WILL BE CHOSEN TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PRINTED ANTHOLOGY AND ONLY ONE ARTWORK WILL BE CHOSEN TO BE THE BOOK COVER.
The judges' decision is final and no individual correspondence can be entered into.
Judges are unable to comment on individual entries.
Once decisions have been reached, those with written work chosen to appear in the anthology will be notified of this by email and a list of anthology contributors will appear on the VirulentBlurb website before 30th April 2016.
The winning cover artwork creator will be notified by email and in a cover reveal article on the VirulentBlurb website by 10th May 2016.
The list of anthology contributors and the winning cover artwork will also be sent out in a press release to interested publications/websites to publicise the anthology.
The anthology will be publicly available on Lulu (Paperback) and Amazon (Kindle) on 20th May 2016.
Prizes
Submissions, whether artwork or written work, may also be published on the website at www.virulentblurb.com on the Blogs page at the judges discretion, whether or not it is selected for inclusion in the final anthology. If you include a Twitter name with your details, you will be tweeted if your entry is published online.
Written Work – If your work is chosen to be published in the printed anthology, you will receive a Kindle version of the book itself.
Art Work – if your artwork is chosen to be the book cover you will receive a Kindle version of the book itself AND a small (approx 8” x 10”) photographic print of the cover. In the case of a collaboration, you will each receive the prize.
All profits from the anthology will go to the charity http://www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/ so no further/alternative prizes or payments will be offered now or in future.
The VirulentBlurb team reserves the right to amend these rules where it is deemed necessary to do so. Any changes to the rules will be posted on the VirulentBlurb website.
You may enter as many times as you wish and multiple entries may be published on the VirulentBlurb website although only one entry over all will be selected for use as the book cover.
PLEASE, NO FAN ART. We cannot accept images that use characters or scenarios recognisable from other work that you do not have the copyright for, so e.g. no Doctor Who, Batman, Sherlock, VirulentBlurb etc.
General Terms & Conditions
Deadline
The deadline date for ALL entries is 11:59 pm (UK time) on Wednesday 23rd March 2016 so make sure you submit your email in plenty of time.
Eligibility
Entry is open to creators of any age and nationality, written work in English please, aged 18 years old and over at the time of the closing date.
Entries must be entirely the work of the creator and by submitting you are confirming that the work is your own and you own all the commercial rights and full copyright, including, for artwork, any electronic fonts or photographs used. Any evidence to the contrary will result in immediate disqualification and may result in legal action.
Receipt of entry
Receipt of all written work and artwork entries will be confirmed by email. No other correspondence will be entered into until judging has been completed.
Copyright
Worldwide copyright of each entry, artwork or written work, remains with the creator but the VirulentBlurb will have the unrestricted right to publish ANY entry, giving creator credit, on the VirulentBlurb website and in the charity anthology (both printed and e-book versions) and to mention the work, use in full or as excerpts in any promotion relevant to the anthology. The anthology editor reserves the right to edit written work for unintentional spelling and grammar errors and to add page breaks as necessary to fit the printed page but will not edit for content or readability so please make sure you are happy for your work to appear “as is” on the website and in the book.
Judging
NOT EVERY WRITTEN SUBMISSION WILL BE CHOSEN TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PRINTED ANTHOLOGY AND ONLY ONE ARTWORK WILL BE CHOSEN TO BE THE BOOK COVER.
The judges' decision is final and no individual correspondence can be entered into.
Judges are unable to comment on individual entries.
Once decisions have been reached, those with written work chosen to appear in the anthology will be notified of this by email and a list of anthology contributors will appear on the VirulentBlurb website before 30th April 2016.
The winning cover artwork creator will be notified by email and in a cover reveal article on the VirulentBlurb website by 10th May 2016.
The list of anthology contributors and the winning cover artwork will also be sent out in a press release to interested publications/websites to publicise the anthology.
The anthology will be publicly available on Lulu (Paperback) and Amazon (Kindle) on 20th May 2016.
Prizes
Submissions, whether artwork or written work, may also be published on the website at www.virulentblurb.com on the Blogs page at the judges discretion, whether or not it is selected for inclusion in the final anthology. If you include a Twitter name with your details, you will be tweeted if your entry is published online.
Written Work – If your work is chosen to be published in the printed anthology, you will receive a Kindle version of the book itself.
Art Work – if your artwork is chosen to be the book cover you will receive a Kindle version of the book itself AND a small (approx 8” x 10”) photographic print of the cover. In the case of a collaboration, you will each receive the prize.
All profits from the anthology will go to the charity http://www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk/ so no further/alternative prizes or payments will be offered now or in future.
The VirulentBlurb team reserves the right to amend these rules where it is deemed necessary to do so. Any changes to the rules will be posted on the VirulentBlurb website.
