The rules for the contest are here, but the summary is that entries to the Samuel Richardson Prize should be longer than 40,000 words, and they should’ve been self-published in the last five years and available to be purchased or read online.
Greetings, Woman of Letters, and all. I would like to express how heartened I am to find that almost every single 'SUBMISSION GUIDELINES' I read makes a notation that AI is not allowed under any circumstance, and will be deleted and no more submissions from such an author will ever be allowed again to participate on their site, ezine. In the past year I have looked at a lot of different publications to submit my short stories to, many of which do not fit my work, or some have very 'trendy political agendas' that I do not wish to pursue, but they all seem to have one thing in common, and that is the concept that we, as authors are expressing our human gifts of creativity. I hope that all writers of whatever style or genre take note of this, and consider mentioning their thanks to the publications they submit their work to.
Here is my "open thread" comment: I think your dinkus (the floral dividing line in this post) is cute. Is this a new thing for you or has it just not loaded in my e-mail client for the past month?
No developments. I'll batch up the submissions and send them out to the judges, each judge will pick one finalist from their batch and write a post about it. When they've selected, I'll email everyone else in that batch letting them know they didn't get selected.
An aside, but will this competition be occurring annually or just this once?
Greetings, Woman of Letters, and all. I would like to express how heartened I am to find that almost every single 'SUBMISSION GUIDELINES' I read makes a notation that AI is not allowed under any circumstance, and will be deleted and no more submissions from such an author will ever be allowed again to participate on their site, ezine. In the past year I have looked at a lot of different publications to submit my short stories to, many of which do not fit my work, or some have very 'trendy political agendas' that I do not wish to pursue, but they all seem to have one thing in common, and that is the concept that we, as authors are expressing our human gifts of creativity. I hope that all writers of whatever style or genre take note of this, and consider mentioning their thanks to the publications they submit their work to.
Here is my "open thread" comment: I think your dinkus (the floral dividing line in this post) is cute. Is this a new thing for you or has it just not loaded in my e-mail client for the past month?
It's new! I decided to do these fancy dinkuses now! Thanks for noticing :)
Thank you
Thank you for the info. How do we go about entering the contest? I have a self-published book I'd like to enter.
More detailed contest rules are here :) Essentially you just email a PDF or epub file to the submissions address. https://open.substack.com/pub/naomik/p/the-samuel-richardson-prize-for-best?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=hjhja
I have 50,000 words of a novel in progress. If I put it up on Substack may I thenentewr it in the competition?
The novel should be complete to get entered.
I’m publishing my book in chapters on substack and hoping that counts as self published. Thanks for letting me know!
Yep, it does
Thanks again for pioneering this! Have there been any developments, since that original post, on how you guys are planning to announce nominees?
No developments. I'll batch up the submissions and send them out to the judges, each judge will pick one finalist from their batch and write a post about it. When they've selected, I'll email everyone else in that batch letting them know they didn't get selected.
Sounds pretty smooth — thanks!