ITEM 1: The World wide NOVEL and SHORT STORY CONTEST -JULY 2007 is organised by the World and Universal Academy foundation, in partnership with the WUACADEMIA company. It is open from 1st AUGUST 2007 until to 30th AUGUST 2007. All authors, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or social situation …may participate.
ITEM 2: To participate in the competition, send a novel or a short story (or several novels or short stories) that are unpublished. Novels or short stories can only be accepted if it is written (or translated) in either Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabe, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Swahili, Lingala or Kikongo. It will be even much better if candidates would translate their works into the above mentioned languages.
ITEM 3: The World wide NOVEL and SHORT STORY CONTEST - AUGUST 2007 rewards the best unpublished novels. The ten possible themes are the following:
- comedy;
- drama;
- detective fiction or crime fiction;
- spy novel and thriller;
- action and martial arts;
- adventure and travel writing;
- science-fiction and fantasy;
- romance novels (love stories);
- erotic;
- pornography.
ITEM 4: The World wide NOVEL and SHORT STORY CONTEST -AUGUST 2007 rewards the best unpublished short stories. The ten possible themes are the following:
- comedy;
- drama;
- detective fiction or crime fiction;
- spy and thriller;
- action and martial arts;
- adventure and travel writing;
- science-fiction and fantasy;
- romance short story (love stories);
- erotic;
- pornography.
ITEM 5A: The three best short stories from each theme will receive respectively:
- The Golden Prize-AUGUST 2007 of the 14th art: short story (certificate, edition of the short story in an international antholog);
-The Silver Prize-AUGUST 2007 of the 14th art: short story (certificate and edition of the short story in an international anthology);
-The Bronze Prize-AUGUST 2007 of the 14th art: short story ( certificate and edition of the short story in an international anthology).
All the winning stories will be published after the contest.
ITEM 5B: The three best novels from each theme will receive respectively:
- The Golden Prize -AUGUST 2007 of the 14th art: novel (certificate and the possibility of the novel being published);
-The Silver Prize -AUGUST 2007 of the 14th art: novel (certificate and the possibility of the novel being published);
-The Bronze Prize -AUGUST 2007 of the 14th art: novel (certificate and the possibility of the novel being published).
All the winning stories will be published after the contests.
ITEM 6: The best work among the “Gold Prizes" will receive the World-wide Grand Prize-AUGUST 2007 of the 14th art: novel and short story (a certificate, international promotion).
ITEM 7: The concurrent novel (short story) must be sent through Internet (in format PDF or Microsoft word) and in A4 format paper.
ITEM 8: The novels (short stories) that are sent in will not be returned to their author. Once sent, the work will not be modified or completed by registering again. The author has to send his photography and his artistic curriculum vitae. Candidates are obliged to send in their works either in Dutch, English or French in addition to their artistic curriculum vitae. The participants using a pseudonym must mention the two names (the true name and the pseudonym) on the participation card when paying for the entry fee, otherwise they will be eliminated.
ITEM 8: ENTRY FEE (FEES): €0. It is possible to present several works.
ITEM 9: The competing works will be published on the site www.wuacademia.org from September 5, 2007. Netsurfers will then be able to vote. The netsurfers would vote and choose the best overall script. The candidates do not receive any rights of authors concerning the usage of their works by the World and Universal Academy notably in regards to the vote process on internet.
ITEM 10: The results will be announced in September 2007. The prize award will take place in the Netherlands on September 28/29, 2007 during the World Summer Festival in Groningen (The Netherlands). The presence of the winners at the prize award day is highly needed.
ITEM 12: Candidates must submit only original work of arts. Any work that we receive from participants is assumed to be authentic work of the author. In the event of false claim the author will bare the consequence alone. We wish all the participants good luck. |