Horse & Rider Submission Guidelines
By the Editors of Horse & Rider magazine
Expert Bios and Author Profiles: If you use one expert source throughout your story, such as in a major training or health care feature, please provide their professional credentials, as well as biographical and geographical information, for use as a possible sidebar or editor's note. Also, please furnish us with a couple of biographical sentences about you to run at the conclusion of the piece. Clue us in on any special insights or experiences you may have had while producing the article or personal knowledge you may have with the subject matter. We like to personalize our writers to the readers.
3. Submission instructions...
Send a query (which includes the focus of the story along with a fairly detailed outline; please be succinct, to the point, no long stories) or completed manuscript and accompanying art to:
Horse & Rider
Debbie Moors, Associate Editor
2000 S. Stemmons Freeway, Suite 101
Lake Dallas, TX 75065
- Send the manuscript by mail--either a hard copy or on a floppy disk. No queries will be accepted by phone or email.
- We prefer to work with documents in PC Word or text formats if you send a floppy disk. Please specify what computer program you used.
- Don't send original photos or illustrations, as we can't guarantee their return. Note: Our graphic standards are quite high. We usually assign the photography or illustration of a story to one of our professional photographers or artists. Also, we rarely accept photographs without an accompanying manuscript.
- Please allow three months for us to respond to your submission.
- We do not accept simultaneous submissions. Please target your ideas to our audience as best possible.
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Photography Guidelines
As a general rule, Horse & Rider does not buy bulk submissions of stock photography for future use. We do occasionally seek stock photos from equine photographers for specific stories. Those requests are posted with the American Horse Publications and the Equine Photographers Network.
We assign photographs as needed to illustrate feature articles and our monthly departments. The vast majority of the pictures in our publication are the result of photographic assignments. It's best to query us first before you send originals or even dupes in the mail. When sending any art, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for its return. Also, include a photo spec sheet that details what you're sending us (transparencies, prints or discs) and the number you're sending us. We accept no responsibility for unsolicited photography. Please allow 3 months for us to review and return them.
If you're assigned to photograph a story for us, please follow these guidelines. Work closely with the writer/editor of the article or the producer of the photo shoot to photograph all key points of the article. Often, there will be a shot-sheet to follow.
- Please be familiar with our Photo Shoot Guidelines, which are specifications we like to follow regarding the rider and/or horse to be photographed.
- Edit your photographs for exposure, clarity and content. Then offer your best selections to us--those you think represent the story. However, also send us the outtakes. It's possible we may think one of them suits the article better than your selection.
- Identify the horses and people in each photo. You can write the identification on a separate piece of paper.
- We prefer to work with 35mm slides; however some good-quality prints are acceptable. If you choose to send your work in a digital format, make sure the images are high-resolution Photoshop files (300 DPI TIFF or EPS format) that are Mac-compatible. You may send images on CDs, or Zip disks.
- Payment depends on the type and extent of the assignment. Please negotiate your fee and expenses ahead of time.
- We purchase First North American rights to the photographs.
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