Deadline: 31 October 2012 (registration), 10 February 2013 (submissions)
The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards is an annual competition for young writers to showcase their talents and creativity in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and cover art. Since its inception in 2010, the competition has been a resounding success, with more than 600 innovative entries coming in from 100 participating schools across Hong Kong and China.
PPP Company Limited is delighted to organise this competition for the fourth year.
Supported by a number of independent publishers and media companies, the HKYWA aims to encourage and recognise excellence in English writing among students of various age groups, diverse backgrounds and different learning abilities. Last year, we have expanded the competition to include additional international schools from more cities across China.
COMPETITION RULES
DIVISION:
The word limits for each category are the following:
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries: hkywa2013@ppp.com.hk
For submissions: registrations are accepted online
Website: http://www.hkywa.com/
The Hong Kong Young Writers Awards is an annual competition for young writers to showcase their talents and creativity in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and cover art. Since its inception in 2010, the competition has been a resounding success, with more than 600 innovative entries coming in from 100 participating schools across Hong Kong and China.
PPP Company Limited is delighted to organise this competition for the fourth year.
Supported by a number of independent publishers and media companies, the HKYWA aims to encourage and recognise excellence in English writing among students of various age groups, diverse backgrounds and different learning abilities. Last year, we have expanded the competition to include additional international schools from more cities across China.
COMPETITION RULES
- Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2013 is organised by PPP Company Limited (‘P3’): Unit713, Level 7, Core E, Cyberport 3, 100 Cyberport Road, Cyberport, Hong Kong. P3 has the right to alter the Competition and Competition Rules or make exceptions without any prior notice.
- Only enrolled students within the registered school are allowed to participate in Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2013. No individual entries are allowed.
- No entry fee is required, and all rights in the story belong to the property of the author.
- P3 reserves the right to disqualify any entry for any reason, but in particular if any of the Competition Rules have been broken or if the material supplied is offensive or illegal.
- P3 will not be responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, loss, defect, delay, theft, alteration or any other problem arising in the submission of entries.
- P3 retains the rights to any publicity or marketing activity, which they deem necessary to promote either the Competition or its Entrants, their Entries, the Competition Sponsors and P3 themselves. Entrants agree to participate in any reasonable request by P3 to fulfill marketing obligations relating to the Competition and their own Entry.
- P3 will not distribute any material relating to the Entries or the Entrants themselves other than to P3’s judging panels and readers, their own staff and to the Media.
- No personal data relating to the Entrants will be disclosed to any third party without the express permission of the Entrants.
- Only 10 entries are allowed per division. If the entries exceed that we will take the top 10 entries on the entry form.
- Each division can submit up to only 10 literary entries. We require electronic submissions for literary works to be uploaded on to our online database. Each school must register themselves on or before October 31st, 2012 in order to compete (http://www.ppp.com.hk/ojs). Electronic submissions are due by 6pm (GMT +8) on February 10th, 2013. Anything received after this date will not be considered. Every page of literary work must carry the Student’s Group Category, Title and Page Number in the header, but the author’s name MUST be deleted to facilitate fair judging.
- Each primary division is allowed to have maximum of 5 cover art entries. Each submission must include a cover sheet. Please note: if you are submitting in the cover art category, your entry MUST be postmarked by February 10th, 2013. Please post us at: Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2013, PPP Company Limited, Unit713, Level 7, Core E, Cyberport 3, 100 Cyberport Road, Cyberport, Hong Kong. We must receive the hard copy submissions of the Cover Art byFebruary 15th, 2013. Anything received after this date will not be considered. The Cover Art must not carry the Author’s Name, Student’s Group Category, Title and Page Number.
- Literary work must be submitted with 1” margins all around, double-spaced, numbered pages and typed in 12 point Arial or Times New Roman font. Cover Art work must be submitted on 297mm x 420mm (A3) paper, portrait orientation.
- Once the electronic submissions have been uploaded, please send one email to hkywa2013@ppp.com.hk by 6pm (GMT +8) on February 10th, 2013 to notify us and attach a completed submission form with the email. This will ensure that we have received all your entries on our database. If your school is submitting both cover art and literary entries, please send all the information in one notification email with the completed entry form.
- Word limits must be within the specified number of words. Otherwise, entries will be disqualified and P3 will not be responsible for notifying the school if this happens.
- No more than one story can be accepted by each student in each participating school. Co-authored papers will not be accepted except in the Cover Art work category.
- Only original and non published work may be submitted and by entering the competition you are confirming that to the best of your knowledge the work is exclusively that of the individual it has been attributed to. No parental involvement is allowed. In the case of the Cover Art work, you are confirming that the work is that of the named individuals. Plagiarism – use of third party works – without written permission from the author will result in disqualification of the entrant and possibly the school.
- Entries submitted will not be returned to the author unless requested by the school to P3 in writing to the following email address: hkywa2013@ppp.com.hk.
- The competition will be judged by a panel of judges. The judges may withhold some or all of the awards when the submissions are not of notable quality. In the event of a tie, the award will be shared. The judge’s decisions will be final.
- P3 reserves the right to lightly edit the entries included in the anthology.
- An overall student will be named the Hong Kong Young Writer of the Year.
- Awards will also be given to the winning entry in each of the literary award categories.
- Certificates of participation will be issued to all students whose work is selected by their school for submission to the competition.
- Anthology Publication
- All award-winning works will be published, along with a selection of short-listed entries. P3 reserves the right to “lightly edit” works that are published. Two thousand copies will be available for free redemption from Bookazine bookstores in Hong Kong.
DIVISION:
- Group 1 (Year 1-3/Primary 1-3): fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cover art
- Group 2 (Year 4-6/Primary 4-6): fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cover art
- Group 3 (Year 7-9/Form 1-3): fiction, non-fiction, poetry
- Group 4 (Year 10-11/Form 4-6): fiction, non-fiction, poetry
- Group 5 - Different Learning Abilities (Age 13 and under): fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cover art
- Group 6 - Different Learning Abilities (Age 14-16): fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cover art
The word limits for each category are the following:
- Up to 500 words for fiction and non-fiction in Group 1
- Up to 1000 words for fiction and non-fiction in Group 2
- Up to 1500 words for fiction and non-fiction in Group 3
- Up to 3000 words for fiction and non-fiction in Group 4
- Poetry and submissions from students with Different Learning Abilities can be of any length.
- By entering the Hong Kong Young Writer Awards 2013, you give PPP Company Limited permission to contact you with regard to the competition
- The deadline for entries is February 10th, 2013. Anything received after this date will not be considered.
- The competition will be judged by a panel of judges. Their decision will be final. Only original and non published work may be submitted and by entering the competition you are confirming that to the best of your knowledge the work is exclusively that of the individual it has been attributed to. In the case of the Cover Art work, you are confirming that the work is that of the named individuals. Parents should not write the entries on behalf of their child.
- Entries included in the anthology may be lightly edited by the publishers.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
For queries: hkywa2013@ppp.com.hk
For submissions: registrations are accepted online
Website: http://www.hkywa.com/
