The Indies First Time Writer Challenge
Sponsored by: The Indie TwiFic Awards
Judges:
- Ahelm
- CarenL
- Gustariana
- Hmonster4
- LaViePastiche
- PastichePen
- PurdueLiz
- SleepyValentina
- SorceressCirce
- Spotzle
Rules and Guidelines
Submissions will be accepted from September 19
12:00 AM EDT to October 27 11:59 PM EDT (based on time stamp of submission via
http://www.theindietwificawards.com).
The theme of the challenge is "
First Experiences". Entries may be Canon, AU, AH and of any genre
(e.g., angst, humor, family, suspense).
Entry's ratings must correspond to the appropriate
equivalent for the entry’s website (e.g. MA, PG-13, R).
Shipping: All ships are acceptable so long as they
are tastefully done and well written. Pedophilic pairings and incest
pairings are NOT acceptable. Any story found to violate this criteria will be
ruled ineligible.
Collaborations are acceptable so long as it is a
first time effort for both writers.
Limit of two entries per author or collaboration
group.
Entries will be accepted from
FanFiction.net (FFn),
LiveJournal (LJ), Twilighted (T’ed), and Simply Twilight. Please note that we
will not be able to add entries submitted via sites other than FFn to the C2.
Entries must be between 2,500 and 15,000 words.
The official word count will be assessed during the validation process via
copy/paste of the entry (excluding header and AN) into Word 2007.
Additionally, searches will be done across the four sites mentioned above to
certify that no work by the author pre-exists. If at any time an author is
identified to have pre-existing work, the one shot will be disqualified.
Twilight 25 Exception: If you are currently
writing for the Twilight 25, and it is your first time writing, you will be able
to participate in the First Time Writers Contest.
One-shots may not be expanded until the contest is
over.
Submitting an Entry
Submitting an Entry Submissions will be accepted
via our website
http://theindietwificawards.com
All entries must use a “The Indies First Time
Writer Challenge” Contest header, which is below.
“The Indies First Time Writer Challenge”
One-Shot Contest
Title:
Pen name:
Primary Players:
Rating:
Word Count:
Disclaimer:
To see other entries in the “The Indies First
Time Writer Challenge” contest, please visit the C2:
http://www.fanfiction.net/community/The_Indies_First_Time_Writer_Challenge/74097/
Special thanks to the For The Love Of Jasper contest for sharing their contest framework with us.
Entries will be validated for quality
grammar/punctuation and rules compliance when the entry is submitted. After an
entry has been validated, if submitted via FFn, it will be added to the
"The Indies First Time Writer Challenge"
C2. Authors will be
PMed or emailed when their entries have been validated. If an entry is
disqualified, the author will be PMed and may modify and resubmit the entry by
the submission deadline, if she so chooses.
We encourage any author with need for a beta to
check out
Project Team Beta.
Categorization of Entries
All Entries will be broken into two master
groupings: Rated M and Rated T or Below.
If at the time of voting, we have more than 30
entries under the master category, secondary categories will be created to group
the entries. For example, if 40 entries are received, 15 being AU, 20
being AH, and 5 canon, they will distribute that way. If we see more than
75 entries, additional groupings may be announced, based on types of entries
received.
Voting
After the submission deadline has passed, there
will be an open/public voting round featuring all validated entries.
Open Voting will run from November 1 12:00 AM EDT
to November 15 11:59 PM EDT.
In addition to Open Voting, there will be a
Judges’ Selection round. The judges will assess all submitted entries, and will
do so anonymously – all header information (author, title, etc) will be removed
from an entry before the judges read it.
All winners will be announced 9pm EST on November
20.