June 2007 Hacker Anthology Competition
Competition Summary
Title: June 2007 Hacker Anthology Competition
Opens: 1 June 2007
Closing date: 1 September 2007
Results: 10 September 2007
Judges: DK, JJ and x1 TBC
Overview: Anything goes, so long as it is well written, includes Michael Daw and of course HACKING! The story does not have to be technical in nature but well conceived.
Questions: Any queries can be submitted via our Contact form.
Prizes
The winner of the competition will receive a first prize of $300.
Three runner up contributers will each receive a $50 prize.
The Rules
- No entry form is needed. Entry is on-line only.
- The Prize is open to writers of any nationality, but the content must be written in English.
- There is no restriction on theme or style, except that it must contain a hacking element centered around hacker icon Michael Daw. The character and storyline have no limitations other than the fact that he works as an IT Security Analyst.
- Stories should be 500-1000 words. Any entries significantly longer than this will be disqualified.
- Stories must be available for the Michael Daw publications and other works and, therefore, must not have been published previously.
- michaeldaw.org and its owner(s) have exclusive rights and copyright to all work submitted. This means you give michaeldaw.org and its owner(s) full copyright over the content you submit; allowing us to modify, edit, alter or use for commercial purposes as we see fit.
- Notification of receipt of entry will be by email.
- The judges’ verdict is final.
- No correspondence will be entered into once work has been submitted.
- Stories cannot be altered or changed after they have been entered.
- There is no limit to how many writing entries a user submits; however, a charge of $15 is required for every additional entry.
Entry Fees
The cost of entry is fixed in US Dollars ($). Any translation into your local currency will be done automatically by paypal according to the current exchange rate.
Payment is by paypal only. The link to make these payments can be found on our Donations page. Please use "June 07 Hacker Anthology" as the "Payment For" title.
Per Entry $10.00
Per Additional Entry $15.00
Submissions
All submissions must be a TXT, DOC or PDF file format. All others file types will be rejected.
Submissions can be emailed to:
submission@michaeldaw.org
Please note all submissions not received by the closing date will not be considered as part of the competition.
Penalties
Breaking of the rules mentioned above, titled “Rules” or any other reason we deem fair, will be immediately dis-qualified and no refund(s) will be given.
Competition Exceptions
michaeldaw.org and its owner(s) reserve the right to cancel this competition with no charge to themselves at any time in the event that less than 35 stories are submitted. In the event that this occurs, the contributer will receive a full refund.