This may not be weird horse news, but it’s a way to share your horse story with the rest of the world!

The Horses in Culture Project would like to hear from horse owners with their own stories to share. Supported by a Carnegie-Whitney Grant from the American Library Association, the Horses in Culture Project seeks to build a searchable database of horse stories that represent different cultures and ethnicities.

Dr. Gail M. Staines, assistant vice president for University Libraries at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Mo., and a longtime equestrienne, established this project so that young adults would have a wide selection of stories where the horse is essential to the plot.

“Horse story literature tends to be based in the US or the UK, where characters are teenage girls and the plot is usually saving a horse and/or learning a life lesson,” said Staines. “The goal of this project is to identify published horse stories from different cultures and ethnicities, making them accessible to generations of young readers worldwide