ITEM 1: The world-wide competition 2016 of the 14th art (NOVEL and SHORT STORY) is organised by the World and Universal Academy foundation, in partnership with the WUACADEMIA company. It is open from March 30, 2016 to April 30, 2016. All artists, irrespective of age, sex, nationality or social situation …may participate.
ITEM 2: To participate in the competition, send a novel or a short story (or several novels or short stories) that are unpublished. Novels or short stories can only be accepted if it is written (or translated) in either English, French 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ITEM 3: The world-wide competition 2016 of the 14th art (NOVEL and SHORT STORY) rewards the best unpublished novels. The ten possible themes are the following:
- comedy;
- drama;
- detective fiction or crime fiction;
- spy novel and thriller;
- action and martial arts;
- adventure and travel writing;
- science-fiction and fantasy;
- romance novels (love stories);
- erotic;
- pornography.
ITEM 4: The world-wide competition 2016 of the 14th art (NOVEL and SHORT STORY) rewards the best unpublished short stories. The ten possible themes are the following:
- comedy;
- drama;
- detective fiction or crime fiction;
- spy and thriller;
- action and martial arts;
- adventure and travel writing;
- science-fiction and fantasy;
- romance short story (love stories);
- erotic;
- pornography.
ITEM 5A: The three best short stories from each theme will receive respectively:
- The golden Prize of the 14th art: short story (certificate, edition of the short story in an international antholog);
-The silver Prize of the 14th art: short story (certificate and edition of the short story in an international anthology);
-The Bronze Prize of the 14th art: short story ( certificate and edition of the short story in an international anthology).
All the winning stories will be published after the contest.
ITEM 5B: The best short story among the “gold Prizes" will receive the World-wide Grand Prize of the 14th art: short story.
ITEM 6A: The three best novels from each theme will receive respe ctively:
- The golden Prize of the 14th art: novel (certificate and the possibility of the novel being published in several languages.);
-The silver Prize of the 14th art: novel (certificate and the possibility of the novel being published in several languages.);
-The Bronze Prize of the 14th art: novel (certificate and the possibility of the novel being published in several languages.).
All the winning stories will be published after the contests.
ITEM 6B: The best novel among the “Gold Prizes" will receive the World-wide Grand Prize of the 14th art: novel (a certificate, international promotion).
ITEM 7a: The concurrent novel (short story) must be sent through Internet (in format PDF) and in A4 format paper.
ITEM 7b: The novels (short stories) that are sent in will not be returned to their author. Once sent, the work 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 Dutch, English or French in addition to their artistic curriculum vitae. The participants using a pseudonym must mention the two names (the true name and the pseudonym) on the participation card when paying for the entry fee, otherwise they will be eliminated.
ITEM 8: ENTRY FEE (FEES): €0 first entry, €25 each additional. It is possible to present several works. Every work will have an apart inscription to. The entry fee is non-refundable.
ITEM 9: The competing works will be published in an anthology and on the site www.wuacademia.org from May 07, 2016. 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 and ebook.
ITEM 10: The results (the nominations) will be announced on July 25, 2016. The prize award will take place in the Netherlands on August 27, 2016 during the WORLD MANAGEMENT AND KNOWLEDGE FORUM (and the fifth WUacademia Festival) in Amsterdam. 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. |
