Illustration/Graphic Storytelling Guidelines

Submission closing date is 19th January 2024

Graphic Storytelling Guidelines

We are excited to be accepting graphic storytelling pieces that respond to the theme UNBREAKABLE. This includes graphic novel style, comic strip and illustration led storytelling.

You can interpret the theme however you wish. We are accepting unpublished and published work, as well as work that has been submitted for a UoG assignment. Ensure that it is your original work and that you own the publication rights. If the piece has been published elsewhere previously, please let us know where. You are welcome to include up to a 50-word bio in the submission email, but all pieces will be read and decided upon anonymously.

Collaborations (i.e. a writer working with an artist) are acceptable. Please ensure all parties involved in collaborations are acknowledged fairly.

For graphic novel style and comic strip works, please submit one piece only, no longer than six pages long with a maximum of eight panels per page.

For an illustration led story, please submit one piece only, no longer than six pages or 1000 words long. Straightforward ‘illustration plus story’ pieces (i.e. a picture on one page and only words on the next etc.) will need 12pt, double-spaced text, in Arial or Times New Roman font.

When submitting, please include “Graphic Storytelling - [Type] Submission” in the email subject line and send it to cwanthology@glos.ac.uk

- Ensure your work includes the title in the header and the page number in the footer.

- Submissions will be selected anonymously: do not include your name anywhere in the document; do include your name in the email.

- Transgressive themes and language are welcome under the provision that they are handled with sensitivity and are not used gratuitously.

- Each piece should be self-contained. It can be an extract from a longer work but must be able to stand alone.

- Successful submissions will be given to editors, who will coordinate with the authors to suggest any appropriate edits.

- Unfortunately, we are unable to offer feedback for unsuccessful submissions.

- If you have any questions, please email cwanthology@glos.ac.uk

Illustration Guidelines

We are excited to be accepting illustrations or illustrative art that responds to the theme UNBREAKABLE.

This work could be in any form that can be faithfully reproduced (i.e. digital artwork or scans); low quality photos will not be accepted.

Minimum size requirement is A5 (148mm x 210mm) and a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Please leave a margin of a minimum of 12mm around artwork so that it can be displayed correctly.

Artwork can be either portrait or landscape.

Preferred submission formats are either PDF, TIFF. or EPS. JPG is acceptable, but please save to maximum size.

The preferred colour format is CMYK. You can send work as RGB, but image colours can change when converted for print.

Please submit a maximum of three illustrations.

Maximum combined file size per email submission is 50mb.

Alternative submission for larger files can be arranged if need by contacting cwanthology@glos.ac.uk.

When submitting, please include “Illustration - [Type] Submission” in the email subject line and send it to cwanthology@glos.ac.uk

- Submissions will be selected anonymously: do not include your name anywhere in the document; do include your name in the email.

- Transgressive themes and language are welcome under the provision that they are handled with sensitivity and are not used gratuitously.

- We reserve the right to crop or partially use your artwork in the anthology as appropriate.

- Unfortunately, we are unable to offer feedback for unsuccessful submissions.

- If you have any questions, please email cwanthology@glos.ac.uk