All orchard members who want to express in some way the impact Over the Rhine has had on their lives are encouraged to participate! Poetry, nonfiction, fiction, photography and artwork (black & white or grayscale only) will be accepted, and the only criterion is some manner of relevance to Over the Rhine's personal meaning for you. Photos of the band are also welcome. These may be things you've created already or are doing especially for this book, but there must be no conflicting copyrights attached to your submissions. Contributions are limited to three per person. While some of us could probably create a book of our own on this particular theme, we want this collection to be as representative as possible of the entire orchard community, so we advise those of you with lots to say (or show) to be discerning and take your best shots!
Editorial feedback on written contributions will be limited to correcting grammar, punctuation and spelling, and to making suggestions for improving form and/or clarity if warranted. Contributors will have the opportunity to approve or dispute any suggested changes to their work. Those who would like to polish their written contributions before submitting them for the book are encouraged to solicit constructive criticism in the orchard Writer's Forum. Your level of ability as a writer, artist or photographer is much less important than giving your best and most heartfelt effort for this tribute to Over the Rhine! We know good enough is a thousand miles from grace.
Here are the guidelines:
The deadline for contributions is January 31, 2008. This is the FINAL deadline! Orders for the book will be taken shortly thereafter.
Each contributor may submit up to 3 works.
Written work should be 1200 words or less (approximately 4 printed pages).
Written work can be submitted as RTF (Rich Text Format, preferred), as MS Word documents, or as plain Text files. Note that any formatted contribution will not necessarily appear in the same font you used to create it when the book is printed.
Artwork and photos must be black & white or grayscale, and should be submitted in an uncompressed format if possible -- TIFF is preferable, bitmap files and hi-resolution jpegs are also acceptable. Resolution for bitmaps must be 300dpi to 600dpi. The image should be submitted so that it is actual size as you want it to appear in the book at 300dpi, and its dimensions cannot exceed 8.5" x 11" for full-page art (a quarter-inch excess around the perimeter of the image is required for bleeds). If you are working with a .jpg file, which is always 72dpi, you will either need to convert it to a 300dpi bitmap or increase the dimensions of the file to 4.167X its "actual" size on screen (for example, a hi-res jpeg photo to print at 6" x 9" in the book would have to be increased to 25" x 37.5" in size in your graphics or photo processing program). If you can't send large email attachments, send a hi-resolution b&w or grayscale .jpg along with the desired final size and we'll attempt to convert it for you. A caption of 50 words or less may optionally be submitted with artwork.
All submissions must be emailed as attachments to orchard.book@gmail.com accompanied by a note specifying your name as you want it to appear in the book, your orchard name, and any other information you think is warranted. I will do my best to acknowledge your submissions and get back to you with any suggested changes within a week.
Please post any questions or suggestions you may have here, and let's all have fun with this!
