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SHORT STORY COMPETITION

Swanezine is accepting entries for the 2011 Short Story Writing Competition   ENTRY is FREE   Closing date for entries Wednesday November 30th 2011 Winning authors will be announced before December 15th 2011   UPDATE. Our E-mail was disrupted on the 13th November. This was out of our control hence we are unaware of entries submitted around that date. If you believe we might not have received your entry please resend it before the competition closure date.    First Prize £30  Second Prize £20 Third Prize £10 (English Pounds) Plus Three Short-listed Entries Plus Commended Entries and Judges'  Report The Competition Rules   Maximum word count: One thousand (1000) Language English. There is no set theme; the main criterion being quality work. We do not accept entries that promote goods, products, or businesses. Maximum of two entries per author. Authors can only win one prize per competition. Entries must be your own work and not submitted to other competitions. Entries must not have been previously published, or broadcast in any format. Copyright and Publishing   Authors retain copyright of their material. The three winning and the three short-listed entries will be announced on the Swanezine Short Story and Flash Fiction page before December 15th 2011 and their stories will be published within four weeks.  Once the three winners and the three short-listed stories have been announced, Swanezine retains the right to publish these stories within a maximum of 4 weeks from the announcement. To clarify: these stories must NOT be published elsewhere until after their publication on the Swanezine and within 4 weeks whichever is the sooner; after which all rights revert to the authors upon publication.  Note: This does not apply to non winning and non short-listed entries who may submit or publish elsewhere.    Submissions   Entries are only accepted by E-mail.    In the subject line of your email submission, write: Short Story Competition.   Your story must be in the body of the E-mail: Do NOT send attachments, they will be deleted.   Include your name, address, your E-mail address and word count in the body of the E-mail, and the following disclaimer copied from this page and pasted into the body of your email:   " I  ( your name )  confirm that I am the author of this work and that it has not been previously published or broadcast in any form, I agree and accept the rules of this competition"   We do NOT publish winners addresses or e-mail. The judges' decision will be final and no individual correspondence can be entered into.   Please ensure that you send your  Submissions to  Swanezine Prize Money   Payment method: electronically by PayPal.   Entrants in the UK will receive their prize money by cheque.   We will contact the winners upon announcement to confirm payment arrangements. Submission of an entry to the Swanezine short story competition implies acceptance of all the rules of the competition.