Making submissions

Horizon Review’s inbox is always full. To enable us to deal with the volume of submissions, we ask that you follow the guidelines below. This is important! Please note that making a submission means you have accepted the terms and conditions of Salt, the magazine’s owner.

Horizon Review

Horizon is an online review of literature and art. We publish poems, stories, essays, articles and memoir, multimedia pieces (but light on the talking heads please), art reviews, photo essays, and other items of cultural interest. Queries are welcome. The review appears twice yearly, in March and September.
We read submissions during the following periods:
December 15th — February 15th.
June 15th — August 15th.

Guidelines

1. Your submission must adhere to the following guidelines:

2. We accept submissions only by email, at submissions-horizon@saltpublishing.com.

3. Put your submission into one document, either .doc or .rtf.

4. Please send a maximum of six poems or three short stories.

5. Criticism, memoir and essays should be no more than 3,000 words.

6. Reviews should be no more than 1,000 words.

7. You must include a 75-word biographical note.

8. Due to volume, we are not able to send acknowledgements or rejections. If you are not contacted by Salt within 30 days of your submission, your work has not been accepted for publication. We regret this but we are a (very) small team.

9. Copyright remains with the author. In a submission you license Salt to publish any and all material sent on this website for the lifetime of copyright.

10. Salt regrets it cannot enter into correspondence about any submission.

11. By submitting any contribution you agree that you have read and agreed to the terms and conditions set out in the contract below.

Terms and Conditions

1. You as the Author of the Contribution warrant to us (hereinafter called ‘the Publishers’) that the Contribution is original to yourself, that it has not hitherto been published in any form, and is not a violation or infringement of any existing copyright or licence or of any other right of any other person or party whatsoever. You undertake to indemnify the Publishers against any claims, any loss, damage or costs, including any legal costs properly incurred, occasioned to the Publishers in consequence of any breach of this warranty or arising out of any claim alleging that your Contribution constitutes a breach of this warranty.

2. You accept responsibility for obtaining permission for publication in the Contribution at your expense of any textual and/or illustrative material in which copyright vests in any other person or party and will deliver to the Publishers for safe keeping any documents relating to the granting of such permissions.

3. You may republish the Contribution in whole or in part at no charge without the Publishers’ prior written permission.

4. The Contribution will be offered by you and subject to the decision of the General Editor (see below) and the terms of Clause 1 (above) will be accepted for publication in the first edition of the Work only and the Publishers shall have the right to include the Contribution in any subsequent revised edition or editions of the Work on the terms set out below.

5. You will, if so required by the General Editor, revise the Contribution for any new edition of the Work and you agree that such revised Contribution shall be subject to the terms and conditions herein generally stated except that the payment for such revised Contribution shall be mutually agreed between yourself and the Publishers.

6. Should proofs of the Contribution (and finished artwork) be provided to you, you undertake to read, check and correct them and return them to the Publishers within 14 days of their receipt, failing which the Publishers may consider the proofs and artwork passed for online publication by you.

7. The Publishers shall include your name with due prominence on the title page of the Contribution or elsewhere as determined by the Publishers as the author (or co-author as the case may be) of the Contribution.

8. You hereby assert to the Publishers and to our licensees your moral right to be identified in the Work as the Author (or co-author as the case may be) of your Contribution, in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

9. Any dispute or difference of any kind whatsoever which arises between you and the Publishers in relation to any matter in connection with this letter of agreement shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act 1996 or any amending or substituted statute for the time being in force.