Entries are now invited for the 2013 International Open Keats & Chapman award. A first prize of £50 will be award to the entry that is, in the view of the Awards Committee, the most convincing, original, well-written and corny pastiche of a 'Keats & Chapman' tale in the style of the late Myles na gCopaleen.
In addition to the lavish financial award, the winning entrant is likely to benefit from enhanced celebrity status through promotions via the EDSRF marketing affiliation programme. So don't be shy- have a go!
The rules are substantially the same as in previous years (see below), and may be waived in their entirety on the slightest whim of the chairman or in return for a bung, bribe, tip, sweetener, etc.
The Supervising Committee
Stockholm
Entrants should note
that the Committee will accept entries submitted via the comment facility at
the foot of this blog post.
1.1
The Rules means the rules defined herein under.
1.2
In The Rules, unless the context otherwise
requires:
1.2.1
the singular includes the plural and vice versa;
1.2.2
reference to a gender includes the other gender
and the neuter.
1.3
The headings in The Rules are for ease of
reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of The Rules.
1.4
Queries relating to the interpretation of The
Rules should be submitted to the Rules Interpretation Sub-Committee of the Rules
Committee. Suggested additions to the rules should be submitted via the
comments facility at the foot of this blog post.
2
ELIGIBILITY
2.1
The contest is open to any person who is not a
member of the Supervising Committee, the Rules Committee, or the Awards
Committee.
2.2
Entries must:
2.2.1
Be the original unpublished work of the entrant
(team efforts are allowed provided that all members of the team are
acknowledged;
2.2.2
Be presented in English;
2.2.3
Be written in prose form (quotations in verse
permitted).
2.2.4
Contain no fewer than 200 words and no more than
900 words.
2.2.5
Be set at any time between 1/1/1800 and the
Closing Date, unless a time-travel machine or space-time wormhole features to
justify some other temporal setting.
2.2.6
Be submitted before midnight (GMT) on 24
December 2013.
2.2.7
Not have been submitted in connection with any
other formal contest or award.
2.3
The Entrant shall not unlawfully discriminate
within the meaning and scope of any law, enactment, order, or regulation relating
to discrimination (whether on grounds of sex, age, race, gender, religion or
belief, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, maternity,
pregnancy, marriage, civil partnership or otherwise).
2.4
Entries will be scrutinised by the Supervising
Committee to ensure compliance with the Eligibility Criteria. Non-compliant
entries will be disqualified.
3
Scoring
3.1
Each compliant entry will be scored by the Awards
Committee in accordance with the Scoring Protocol.
3.2
Up to 100 points may be awarded to any given
entry as follows:
3.2.1
Up to 20 points may be awarded for literary
style
3.2.2
Up to 20 points may be awarded for the
plausibility of the scenario.
3.2.3
Up to 50 points may be awarded for the corniness
of the punch line.
3.3
At the sole discretion of the Awards Committee,
bonus points, up to a maximum of 10, may be awarded for:
3.3.1
Entries of exactly 200 or exactly 900 words
(i.e. at the extreme limits of the eligibility criterion relating to entry length).
3.3.2
Attempted puns of a superordinate Degree of
Difficulty
3.3.3
The graceful and unobtrusive inclusion of any
one or more of the following: anaphora, chiasmus, anadiplosis, syllepsis, autoclesis,
zeugma.
3.3.4
Apt and humorous neologisms.
4
Award
4.1
Subject to Clause 5, the Prize will be awarded
to the highest scoring entry.
4.2
In the event of a tie, where the highest score
is earned by more than one entry, the Tie Breaking Protocol will be invoked.
4.3
The decision of the Awards Committee will be
final, unchallengeable, irrevocable, absolute and binding in all possible
respects. No correspondence will be entered into.
5
Roll-over
5.1
The Committee reserves the right not to award
any prize in the event that: a) entries do not meet the reasonable expectations
of the Committee in relation to quality; or b) there is one or fewer entries in
total. In such a case the prize fund will roll-over in full to the next annual
contest.
6
Licences
6.1
Each Entrant will be deemed to have granted to
the Supervising Committee a royalty-free, non-exclusive, non-transferrable,
perpetual, eternal, non-time-limited licence to publish the Entry.
6.2
The Supervising Committee grants the Winning
Entrant a licence to publish or promote the fact of their win, provided that
such publishing or promotion does not in the reasonable view of the Supervising
Committee bring the award into disrepute. Where such publication or promotion
includes the use of the International Open Keats and Chapman Award Logo (The
Logo), then the Entrant warrants that The Logo will be displayed in accordance
with International Open Keats and Chapman Award Logo Display Standards.
7.1
The Entrant shall not:
7.1.1
offer or agree to give any person working for or
engaged by the Committee any gift or other consideration which could act as an
inducement or a reward for any act or failure to act connected to the Rules;
nor
7.1.2
enter into the contest if it has knowledge that,
in connection with it, any money has been, or will be, paid to any person
working for or engaged by the Committee, unless details of any such arrangement
have been disclosed in writing to the Committee before such entry is made.
7.2
If the Entrant breaches Rule 7 then the
Committee may disqualify the Entrant with immediate effect, and the Entrant
will forfeit all cumulative rights under the Rules.
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