Contest 2019 Submission Dates

Welcome to the 10th year of the Wordweavers Contest. And we have reached this milestone because of you. Thank you! 

Here are just a few particulars to follow during the submissions. Please send the same as a Word Doc attachment to escribespublications@yahoo.com with the "Form Details" Given Below.

Submission Dates:

Haiku: April 1-30, 2019

Drabble (100 Words): April 1-30, 2019

Short Fiction 200-300 Words: April 1-30, 2019

Results - Longlist May 15, 2019.

Poetry & Short Story Submission Dates: April 1- June 30, 2019.

1) Poetry: poems from 5 words to 100 lines .

2) Short Story: 1500 - 6000 words.

Longlist: July 30, 2019

Prizes

Publication of Winning Entries (also Featured Writers of Poetry & Short Story,) in an anthology. Winners of Poetry & Short Story get a free copy of the anthology.

Form Details

Participant Name:

Participant Email:

Participant Address:

Phone / Mobile No:

Personal Blog Link (OPTIONAL):

Contest Section: Flash Fiction/Short Story/Poetry –

Number of entries:

                                       Has this entry been published somewhere before?
 

Kindly go through the basic spell check routine. You could opt to read out your work to someone in the profession of writing who could offer you some invaluable suggestions.

Please read the following before submitting your work to us.

Submission of your work tells us that you've read this, agree with it, and still want us to publish your work.

• Participation is open to all participants across the world.
  The Contest is FREE is free for residents of South Asian countries (including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma, Bhutan and Myanmar) and the African continent. Residents of all other countries can participate upon paying the entry fee of $3 for one entry and $ 1 for every extra entries, for each category.
• Please understand that we reserve the right to accept or reject your work. Several factors are considered in our final decision whether or not to include your work in our publication, including the message, the method by which it's conveyed, the style, and how much of it works when combined.
• Entrant should be above the age of 18, having completed 18.
• Please fill every detail of the Submission Form including your entries.
• Your work must be your own, original, unaided work. Kindly avoid any Copyright hassles.
• All the entries must be in English only.
• Your original work must be submitted by email and received by the deadline posted on the page to be considered for the contest.
• We will not be accepting previously published entries. We reserve first publication rights to the work published on our site.

Terms and conditions

• These terms apply to the entrants for of Wordweavers Contest 2019, Escribes Publications. You agree to abide by these terms in their entirety. If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions, you should not use this service. The organisers reserve the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time.
• You agree that you are legally capable of entering the Wordweavers Contest and agree to the Terms and Conditions, and that you are competent (i.e. you are of sufficient age and mental capacity) and eligible to enter into a legally binding agreement with its rules and terms and conditions.
• By submitting your creative work, you declare that the it is your own, original work, that it contains no matter which is defamatory or is otherwise unlawful, or which invades individual privacy or infringes any proprietary right or any statutory copyright; and you agree to indemnify and hold the organisers harmless against any claim to the contrary.
• You agree that while you retain ownership of your work, and by submitting an entry to the contest, you give Escribes Publications, permission to use your entry, with acknowledgement, but with no payment to you, in their websites, as part of Press Releases (from where they may be reproduced by media organisations). Should your entry be selected for publication, you give the editors and publishers of the compilation the right to edit your work as they see.
• Should you be declared a prize winner, you will be contacted solely through the name and address you had given at the time of entry submission, so that the organisers can get your mailing address. You therefore agree that you will respond to this notification within 30 days from the day of the results, and should you fail to do so, (1) the organisers have the right to award the prize to the next highest scoring entry, and (2) you forfeit all claims to the prize.
• You agree that the decisions of the screening jury and the contest judges are final and binding, and no correspondence will be entertained regarding these decisions.