Leterary contest : borderless tale
December 2015
Acyone editing house is launching the first ever multi-language leterary contest named : borderless tale. The 20 first winning tales will be published in a e-book collection edited by Alcyone Casa Editrice. The editing house will devolve 5% of the net earnings to refugees charity organisations.
Deadline for submission: November 30th 2015.
Contest theme:
The tales (for kids), will be dedicated to explain, directly or not, the immigration challenges. The tale can be written in any language, but should be written in the author’s mother tong
The text must not be edited previously and limited to 2 pages Word (1 page = 30 lines x 60 column).
Submission instructions:
The tales should be sent before November 30th to: info@alcyone.it.
Publishing:
The book will be edited in the following formats : e-pub, mobi and pdf and distributed and sold in 78 on-line bookshops (see attachement)
In case the number of copy sold would be superior to 200, we will make available a printed version distributed by on-line bookshops.
In case the number of copy sold would be superior to 900, we will make available a printed version distributed by bookshops.
Jury:
The jury decision is undisputable.
The authors are obliged to give the commercial rights to Alcyone Casa Editrice, and will not receive any financial compensation.
The authors will keep property on all rights, and they might propose their work to any other editing house.
The publishing of the tales collection is obviously conditionned by the number of participants and the quality of the tales submitted.
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