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    Annual Short Story Competition '13

    Dear All,

    The Literature Network will hold an annual short story competition, which will be open to all its members. The rules of the competition are:

    1. The stories should be submitted as email attachments in MS Word format and should be minimum 500 and maximum 2000 words and include your Forum names as well. Please send your stories to [email protected]. Please do not post your stories on the Forum!

    2. There will be 5 selections (in February, April, June, August and October) throughout the year and only the stories which have been submitted before the first of these months will be included in that month's elimination. The five stories which win the each selection will take part in the final voting in November and December.

    3. Members can submit only one entry for each selection round. If their story is a winner, they will not be allowed to take part in other selections.

    4. The Admin or Moderators are not responsible for editing or correcting of the stories and therefore the writers themselves are required to make sure that there are no grammatical or spelling errors. The submitted copy is final and further corrections by the writers will be disregarded.

    5. Please still submit your stories in MS Word.docs. or Rich Text.rtf or Notepad.txt files, but PLAIN TEXT only.

    If you want to FORMAT your stories, use the vBulletin forum codes, which can be found here:

    http://www.online-literature.com/for....php?do=bbcode

    6. Only those members with at least 100 posts by each voting period can submit stories for the competition and vote in the polls.

    7. Those who enter the competition agree to keep the information on their identities and stories confidential till the end of that year (only the Admin and Moderators will have access to that information). Those who breach this rule will be disqualified automatically.

    8. All entries should be your own original work and not have appeared anywhere else before. Authors retain the copyright rights for the stories submitted to the competition.

    9. All submissions must be your sole creative work and written for this particular competition. Anyone found plagiarising will be disqualified from this and all future contests.

    10. If one of the 5 entrants selected for the final vote are no longer a member of the site at the time of the final vote, they forfeit their entry and the second place entry for their leg of entries gets bumped to first place.

    11. You can withdraw a story during the submission period; however, once the voting starts, no story can be withdrawn.

    Good luck!
    Those members who would like to take part in the first elimination in February can send their entries now (by January 31st).
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    Last two days to submit your stories for the first elimination round in February!

    Please note that unless you state your forum name in your email, your story will not be accepted.
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    Since there haven't been enough entries, there will not be an elimination this month.

    Please feel free to send your stories for June.
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    Hello! I just want to make sure that I got it right "The information about the author and the story are confidential 'till the end of the year." So does that mean that the author is then free to post the story on other websites after that year (say 2013 but x entered for October)? Thank you

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    Quote Originally Posted by XaSp18 View Post
    Hello! I just want to make sure that I got it right "The information about the author and the story are confidential 'till the end of the year." So does that mean that the author is then free to post the story on other websites after that year (say 2013 but x entered for October)? Thank you
    Yes, once the competition is over, it is up to the writers to decide what to do with the stories.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    Yes, once the competition is over, it is up to the writers to decide what to do with the stories.
    Okay. Thank you! Just making things clear.

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