Graffiti is so excited to use our new space on the Knight Time Review website! We want to fill it with your work. Please submit your art, writing and music to [email protected].

Submission Guidelines

General

We don’t want to turn anyone down. However, we want Graffiti to be a safe place for everyone, so we will not accept pieces that promote hate or violence of any kind. We reserve the right to turn away a piece if we feel that it discriminates against any group.

Since we publish on the KTR website, submissions must stay school appropriate. Overtly sexual, violent, and disturbing imagery will result in a rejection. Realistic and limited use of profanity or drug and alcohol references may fit our guidelines, but please keep in mind that this is a school. Our staff sponsor will read and approve all pieces, so please do not submit anything you wouldn’t be comfortable with a teacher reading. Please reach out if you have questions – all conversations will stay private.

Finally, please do not submit pieces if they aren’t your own work. Graffiti has a zero-tolerance policy on both AI and plagiarism, and we run all submissions through a plagiarism checker.

Writing Guidelines
Please write your submissions in a Google Doc and give us commenting rights. We will edit your piece lightly to fix grammar and spelling mistakes, and we will keep a line of communication open with you to ask you to make the edits before publishing.

If you wish to be published anonymously, you won’t have the right to greenlight our edits, unless you let Graffiti staff know you’re comfortable allowing us to contact you.

Visual Art Guidelines

Please send a quality photo of your submission. The photo must be cropped and only show the art itself (no visible  background).

If you’re submitting a picture of a physical artwork, we recommend hanging up the piece. This minimizes shadows and lights it well. Please line up your camera with the edges of the paper as evenly as you can.

If you’re submitting digital art, please send us a high-quality file type over email or share the document with us.

If you’d like, please submit a brief statement about your work. What medium did you use? Why? What’s it about? What inspired you? These are just example questions, so you don’t need to answer these in particular – just give us an overview of what the piece means to you. Max length is two paragraphs.

Music Guidelines

Please submit well formatted sheet music in a .pdf or .docx format and/or a clear video or audio recording.

If you need help recording or finding people to perform your piece, please contact [email protected]. We can help!

If you like, you are welcome to submit a short description of your piece. Why did you write it? What meaning does it have to you? Max length is two paragraphs.