Dream Foundry Short Speculative Fiction Completion with Prizes Worth of $1700

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Récompense totale

0 $

Organisation à but non lucratif

Dream Foundry

Date limite

11 oct. 2020

Niveau d'études

Enseignement professionnel

Type d'opportunité

Compétition

Financement d'opportunité

Financement complet

Pays éligibles

Algérie , Comores , Egypte , Jordanie , Liban , Mauritanie , Oman , Qatar , Soumalie , Syrie , Émirats arabes unis , bahrain , Djibouti , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , Maroc , Palestine , Arabie Saoudite , Soudan , Tunisie , Yemen

Région éligible

Toutes les régions

The Dream Foundry is offering 2020 edition of Writer Contest, and invites each and everyone interested to participate.

Eligibility criteria:

As a general rule there is no submission fee. All rights remain with the creators. There are no age restrictions on entry.

This contest is for writers who are relatively new to paid or incoming-earning publication of speculative short fiction in English. To be eligible for this contest, all three rules below must be true of you:

You have published a total of less than 4,000 words of paid or income-earning speculative fiction in English.
You have earned a total of less than USD 320 from those words.
You have never been nominated for any award listed here as a major award in speculative fiction.

Requirements:

Submit one complete and finalized story of up to 10,000 words.
All entries are final. No revisions are accepted.
No multiple submissions (do not send more than one story.)
Your submission must be previously unpublished at the time of submission, but simultaneous submissions (submitting the story to us while also submitting elsewhere) is allowed.
Entries can be from any country.
All entries must be original prose works in English. Plagiarism, poetry, song lyrics, or stories that utilize characters or settings from another person’s works will not be considered.
The manuscript should be in standard manuscript format and should be titled and numbered on every page, but the author’s name MUST BE DELETED from the manuscript file to facilitate fair judging.

Please Don’t Send:

We are looking for short speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, weird fiction, etc.) Please don’t send us stories that have no speculative element (mainstream, contemporary, romance, westerns, historical fiction etc.)
Sexual and adult themed stories are allowed. Please don’t send us erotica or gratuitous depictions of violence, sexual assault, or abuse.
Don’t send novels or non-standalone novel excerpts, screenplays, poetry, non-fiction or works written for children.

Prizes:

The contest coordinator will be responsible for selecting ten finalists from all valid submissions received during that time, and the judges will select winners for first, second, and third prize from the finalists, to receive following prizes:

1st: $1000
2nd: $500
3rd: $200

About The Dream Foundry:

The Dream Foundry is an incubator for something wonderful. Our mission is to bolster and sustain the nascent careers of professionals working in the field of speculative literature. To do this, we will launch a contest which will provide a venue to spotlight their work, and offer a prize consisting of a cash reward and a fully funded workshop designed to support mentorship, professional development, and career-oriented networking.

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