DEADLINE: 1st October, 2007
PRIZES: €250.00 (+ certificate, + edition in several languages, + international promotion).
ENTRY FEE: €5

THE REGULATION OF THE COMPETITION

ITEM 1: The world-wide competition 2007 of the 11th art (STORYTELLING) is organised by the  World and Universal Academy foundation, in partnership with the WUACADEMIA company. It is open from 1st January, 2007 to 1st October, 2007. All storytellers, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or social situation …may participate. 

ITEM 2:  To participate in the competition, send an original tale or a folklore tale (or several original tales or folklore tales). Tales can only be accepted if it is written (or translated) in either English, French, Spanish or Dutch. It will be even much better if candidates would translate their works into the above mentioned languages.

ITEM 3: The world-wide competition 2006/07 of the 11th art (STORYTELLING) rewards the best unpublished short tales. The nine possible themes are the following:
- Fables;
- Paraboles;
- Humorous;
- Educative;
- Philosophic;
- Tragic;
- Frightening;
- Romantic;
- Erotic;

ITEM 4: The three best tales from each theme will receive respectively:
- The golden Prize of the 11th art: storytelling (certificate, and the publication of the winning tale;

-The silver Prize of the 11th art: storytelling (certificate and the possibility of the publication of the winning tale);

-The bronze Prize of the 11th art: storytelling ( certificate and the possibility of publication of the winning tale ). 

ITEM 5:  The best tale among the “Gold Prizes" will receive the World-wide Grand Prize of the 11th art: storytelling (a certificate, international promotion and a gift of a value of at least €250).

 ITEM 6: The concurrent work must be sent through Internet (in format PDF) and in A4 format paper.

ITEM 7: Works that are sent in will not be returned to their author.  Once sent in, it 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 English, French, Dutch or Spanish and their artistic curriculum vitae. The participants using a pseudonym must mention the two names (the true name and the pseudonym) on to the participation card during the registration, otherwise they will be eliminated.

ITEM 8:  ENTRY FEE : The entry Fee is 5 Euros for each registered work before the closing date of 1st October, 2007.  It is possible to present several works. Every work will have separate inscription to it. The entry fee is non-refundable.

 ITEM 9: The competing works will be published on the site www.wuacademia.com from October 2, 2007. Netsurfers will then  be able to vote.  The netsurfers would vote and choose the best overall work. 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 voting process on the net.

ITEM 10:  The results will be announced in December 2007.  The prize award will take place in the Netherlands on May 7, 2008 during the first world and universal Festival in Groningen.  The presence of the winners at the prize award day is highly needed.

ITEM 11: 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.