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The contest period will be August 15. 2009 through October 15, 2009 (C.E.; Earth standard dating). All entries must be received by Midnight (EST/ Greenwich-plus-five) on Monday, October 15, 2009.
The contest is open to all sentient species of the known universe. (Off-Earth Entrants are requested to submit photo with entry, although this is more for personal curiosity than anything else and probably won’t have any impact on the judging.)
All entries are to be written to fit the title No Visitors Beyond This Point. Entries are to be original, unpublished poems, one act plays or short stories of 5,000 words/ communication units/symbols/thought implants/squeaks or less. Plagiarism (particularly of Vogon poetry) will be grounds for disqualification and may lead to discorporalization of significant, yet unspecified, body parts. Multiple entries are permitted, but limited to a single time-line.
Judging will be conducted by a staff of crack professional writers, otherwise unemployed English majors and (if we can get him) William Shakespeare. Our judges will be looking for originality, plot, beer, professionalism and credibility, although not necessarily in that order. Their decisions will most likely be arbitrary and certainly final.
With the submission of each entry, the writers acknowledge receipt (if not comprehension) of these official rules. Writers retain final copyrights to all original works, but grant contest organizers permissions to (1) publish works in the upcoming anthology, (2) excerpt work for promotional purposes and (3) leave it laying around for just a bit while we mull things over.
An entry fee of $10.00 (ten dollars) must accompany each submission (see “quest for beer”, above). You will not get this back.
Entries must be delivered (by hand, by mail, by email, by radio wave transmission, by beaming, by magic) in electronic format to:
The contest will have one Grand Master and a series of finalists. All winning entries will be published in an original anthology by Fortress Publishing, Inc. during the Fall of 2009.
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