Submission Terms and Guidelines
To feature your work, we need the following details. Providing complete information helps us represent you accurately and create a compelling feature for our readers:
- Profile Picture: Include a high-quality photo of yourself to accompany your feature.
- Contact Information and Links: Provide your email, website, and any social media profiles you'd like to share so readers can connect with you and explore more of your work.
- Artistic Disciplines or Titles: Let us know the art forms you practice or the titles you go by (e.g., painter, sculptor, multimedia artist).
- Portfolio of Work: Submit 5-7 images of your artwork, ideally of varying size (wide and tall).
- Biography and Work Description: Provide a description about yourself and your work, roughly 600 words in length, although more is useful. Your bio should cover:
- Who you are and where you're from.
- The type of work you create and the processes or techniques you use.
- Where people can currently find or view your work (e.g., exhibitions, online platforms, studios).
- What drives your artistic passion and how your background has influenced your art.
By Submitting Your Content to The Scribe
You Grant Us Permission:
- To use your submitted text and images in our newspaper (print and online) and for related promotion (e.g., website, social media, flyers).
- Submission does not entitle contributors to payment.
- Make editorial changes to your text for clarity, tone, or layout.
- Crop, resize, or make visual adjustments to images for formatting purposes.
- You confirm that you have the right to share it.
Submission does not guarantee publication or inclusion in any specific issue.
If you have any specific concerns, or would prefer we not edit or adjust certain parts of your submission:
reply here or email: [email protected]
Submit by email to [email protected]
Content Policy
We accept submissions from Ohio artists of any experience level. There are no fees to submit or be published. Each submission must meet the criteria below.
Who Can Submit
- Artists currently living in Ohio
- Artists born in Ohio with an ongoing connection to the state
- Ohio-based arts organizations, venues, and collectives
Creative Authenticity
- Artist-Created Work: All submissions must be the artist’s own work created with their individual effort or in collaboration with others. All contributors must be noted.
- Human-Made Only: We aim to provide a platform for human creativity and originality, so works generated by artificial intelligence (AI) or similar automated processes will not be accepted.
- We do not require submissions to be new or previously unpublished works.
Ownership and Usage
- Respect for Artistic Ownership: Artists retain full ownership of their submitted works. By submitting to The Scribe, artists confirm that they legally hold creative rights to such content.
- Content Usage: By submitting your content to The Scribe, you grant us the permanent right to use it across any of our digital and print platforms for the promotional or creative purposes of Apollo Press.
- Supplementary Materials: If a submission is missing visual or descriptive elements (e.g., artist photo, bio, artwork title), you grant us permission to source relevant publicly available materials (such as images from your professional website or public social media profiles) solely for the purpose of completing the article design. You may opt out by notifying us in your submission.
Quality and Presentation
- Submissions should demonstrate a clear connection to Ohio and showcase the artist's unique perspective.
- Work should be well-crafted, polished, and engaging.
- The Scribe is a family-friendly, nonpartisan publication. We do not publish sexually explicit, politically partisan, or discriminatory content.
- We do not accept work that discriminates on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or socioeconomic status.
Ready to submit?
Send by email to [email protected]