Playboy South Africa is proud to announce the 2012 Young Writers Short Story Contest. Any registered student, any age, from any faculty in the country is welcome to submit an original work of fiction not longer than 4000 words to fiction@playboy.co.za
The grand prize winner will join literary greats Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Keouac, Nadine Gordimer, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez by having their short story published in Playboy.
Subscriptions and mystery prizes will also be awarded to the top writers. Entries close on 10 August 2012.
1. Contest is open to all university students with valid student numbers. Employes of Playboy and their families, its agents and affiliates are not eligible.
2. To enter, submit your types manuscript of no more than 4000 words to fiction@playboy.co.za by 10 August 2012. All entries must be previously unpublished original works of fiction.
3. Decisions of the judges are final. Playboy reserves the right to withhold prizes if no submitted entries meet its usual standard of publication.
4. Winners will be notified by email or telephone.
5. All manuscripts become the property of Playboy and will not be returned.
6. Playboy reserves the right to edit the first-prizewinning story for publication.
7. By accepting of their prizes, winners consent to the use of their names, photographs and other likenesses for the purposes of advertising, trade and promotion on behalf of Playboy without further compensation to the winners, unless prohibited by law.
8. Playboy reserves the rights to publish winning entries in the South African and foreign editions of Playboy and to reprint, republish or incorporate them in any electronic or print English-language or foreign-edition anthologies or compilations of Playboy material without further compensation to the winner.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries/ submissions: fiction@playboy.co.za
Website: http://www.playboy.co.za/
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