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Hourglass Literary Magazine with the cooperation, support and patronage of Krajina klass, BLC
software company Literature and Latte, announces its maiden competition for:
BEST SHORT STORY

BEST ESSAY

Awards:

The winning entry in each category (short story, essay and poem) will receive US$1000 as prize money, ap
(clepsydra), digital stamp and diploma.
Winning entries will be published in the first issue of the Hourglass Literary Magazine, in the original langu
and translated (BCMS/English).
Authors will also receive three printed copies of the first issue of the Hourglass Literary Magazine.

Special Awards:
The jury, comprising highly respected authors: Sibelan Forrester, Jelena Lengold and John K. Cox has the
500 for entry in each category).

Ten Finalists in each category will be published in the first issue of the literary magazine.
All published works will be financially compensated and finalists will be provided with one copy of the pri
Literary Magazine .

Scrivener Award:

Special prize of the Literature and Latte Scrivener Award consisting of the three licensed software solut
Note: Awards will be officially awarded in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina (September 1, 2016).
The event winners and finalists will be informed via e-mail/phone.
If an author cannot attend the awards ceremony, sponsors of the contest will provide the video conference; fu
transfer.

General criteria of the competition (early deadline):

Competition (early deadline) is open from October 20 2015 to 11:59 P.M. December 31, 2015 (US Central
Jury/Judges: Sibelan Forrester, Jelena Lengold and John K. Cox.
The competition is international and is open to all authors writing in English or any of the BCMS languages (
Serbian, Montenegrin.)
Authors who write in BCMS may submit their entries in Latin or Cyrillic script.

There are no theme, or genre limitations and boundaries.

Work must be original and unpublished.
One author can compete in all categories, for all three awards respectively.
Multiple submissions are allowed (as well as simultaneous submissions).
By participating in the contest of the Hourglass Literary Magazine authors agree that their work which they s
published in the first issue of the Hourglass Literary Magazine (in print and digital form).
Short stories, essays and poems by writers who write in English will be translated in one of the BCMS langua
Participants retain the copyright of their works.
Names of finalists will be published on the Internet at: www.hourglassonline.org and/or the Hourglass Mon
our media sponsor (ELTA TV) at the official press conference scheduled for July 2016.
Works can be sent in .doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt and .pdf format, with font size not exceeding 12 points.
Contest is anonymous.
Please be sure to prepare your text document(s) accordingly. Exclude every personal information, which can
Participants at any time may contact the editorial office via email: contest {at} hourglassonline.org.
Manifesto of the literary magazine can be found here.

Detailed instructions for submissions:

We only accept submissions online via Submittable.

BEST SHORT STORY

BEST POEM

Text for a short story should not exceed

7000 words or be less than 700 words. Entry
fee: 8 USD.

There are no strict limits, provided that

poems
should
not
have
more
than 3500 words. Author, writer competing
in the category for the best poem can
submit up to three works. Entry fee: 8
USD.

Essays sho
less than

NOTE TO AUTHORS:

Entry fee for authors who want to compete with more than one work in the category for the best essay, best short st
luck!

OFFICIAL DEADLINE:
is scheduled for January (BEGINS), June (ENDS).

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