Competition Rules: Open Eurasia 2024!
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!
(from 15 September 1, 2024 until 15th of April, 2025)
The organizers of the international festival and competition «Open Eurasian Literary Festival and Book Forum» (OEBF) are happy to announce that applications are now open for the 14th Literary Contest — «Open Eurasia». The competition will publish excerpts (up to 1500 words) on the competition website. Following the submission deadline, excerpts (minimum 200 words) from all contestants will be published in the Open Eurasia Almanac.
Only one submission is allowed in each of the following categories and subcategories:
1. Literary work:
1.1. Prose;
1.2. Short prose;
2. Children’s prose (prose for children)
3. Non-fiction
GENERAL CONDITIONS:
- If you want to enter the contest, you have to be a member of ECG. If you were previously a member of a guild and it is now inactive, you need to renew your membership. If you’re not yet a member, you can choose the Contestant category. If you need more info on the categories and how to register online, just head to the Guild website.
- ECG Guardians get one free page per edition (2 blocks, around 400 words).
- If you’re not entering the Contest ECG category, you can submit your work for all categories at the same time.
- Just a heads-up: an excerpt for publication is edited and proofread by the author.
- We accept works in 15 languages: We accept submissions in Russian, English, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Bashkir, Belarusian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Romanian, Tajik, Tatar, Turkmen, Uzbek, Ukrainian and Yakutsk.
- We don’t accept works that have already been published in the UK in English in anthologies or other printed publications.
- There are no restrictions on the subject matter of the work.We don’t accept entries that call for violence, pornographic material or insulting content.
- The Organising Committee reserves the right to reject an entry without explanation. If we reject your entry, we’ll let you know via the email address you’ve given us.
- If you don’t send us an excerpt or a short synopsis, we might disqualify you or we might choose and publish any excerpt from your work. If you send us an excerpt for the website that’s more than 1500 words, we’ll reduce it to 1500 words.
- The results of the competition will be shared at the OEBF 2025 festival.
- All copyright for submitted works belongs to the creators. If you submit a work that you didn’t write yourself, you’re fully liable under UK law to the owner of the exclusive copyright in the text you submitted.
- We’ll be sharing excerpts of the works on the competition website and on social media, using the details you give us in the questionnaire. As this is a non-commercial project and we don’t have a permanent administrator to deal with all the entries, we can’t delete or amend entries at your request. If you really need your entry deleted, the contest organisers can get a third party to do it for them. This will cost £10.
- If you don’t submit an excerpt for publication (about 200 words), or if it’s too long or short, the Organising Committee may choose an excerpt for publication in the contest anthology Open Eurasia.
- If the application conditions are met, the work will appear on the official website of the contest, so that readers can vote for it. However, readership vote is not critical to the selection of finalists.
- Please be advised that excerpts will be published on the site within a week of submission, provided that all conditions are met and the administrator is not otherwise engaged.
How to submit & Application conditions:
1.1 & 1.2 — Prose and Short Prose
HOW TO APPLY?
STEP 1:
Just check to see if you’re a member of the Eurasian Creative Guild. You should have a certificate to prove you’re a member. If you don’t have a membership, just go to the Guild’s website , choose a membership category and fill in the form. Then a manager will get in touch with you.
STEP 2:
Fill in the participant form ↓
TERMS
The PROSE category accepts one (1) entry per contestant.
It is possible to submit both short stories and whole novels.
Just a heads-up about publishing in the Open Eurasia collection:
Just a heads-up about publishing in the Open Eurasia collection:
It’s free for ECG members to publish one block.
For each additional block (about 200 words), there’s a £30 charge.
If you register before 1 December 2024, ECG members get 20% off the cost of publishing additional blocks, except for members in the ‘Contestant’ category. The cost is £24.
STEP 3:
Submit your artwork
On completion of the registration form it is necessary to send all documents to: konkurs@ocamagazine.com
You will need to format your email with the following:
— Subject Line: [category] [your name]
— Email content:
- a synopsis and/or an excerpt from the work (from 1000 to 1500 words) for publication on the contest website. (in .docx format)
- the full text of the work (as an attachment)
- a photo of the author (alone) in good quality (size not less than 1 Mb)
- the work you want to publish in the collection (1 block is approximately 200 words)
One author can submit up to 7000 words (20 pages) for publication.
We accept both complete works (short prose) and extracts (prose), as well as synopses (a promo description of a future novel) for publication in the anthology.
Works are published in the collection ‘Open Eurasia’. The author gets their copy in electronic format.
2. Children's prose
HOW TO APPLY?
STEP 1:
Just check to see if you’re a member of the Eurasian Creative Guild. You should have a certificate to prove you’re a member. If you don’t have a membership, just go to the Guild’s website , choose a membership category and fill in the form. Then a manager will get in touch with you.
STEP 2:
Fill in the participant form ↓
TERMS
in the Children’s Prose category (Maria Shevel Prize), we’re accepting one piece of work from each contestant.
It is possible to submit both short stories and whole novels.
Just a heads-up about publishing in the Open Eurasia collection:
Just a heads-up about publishing in the Open Eurasia collection:
It’s free for ECG members to publish one block.
For each additional block (about 200 words), there’s a £30 charge.
If you register before 1 December 2024, ECG members get 20% off the cost of publishing additional blocks, except for members in the ‘Contestant’ category. The cost is £24.
STEP 3:
Submit your artwork
On completion of the registration form it is necessary to send all documents to: konkurs@ocamagazine.com
You will need to format your email with the following:
— Subject Line: [category] [your name]
— Email content:
- a synopsis and/or an excerpt from the work (from 1000 to 1500 words) for publication on the contest website. (in .docx format)
- the full text of the work (as an attachment)
- a photo of the author (alone) in good quality (size not less than 1 Mb)
- the work you want to publish in the collection (1 block is approximately 200 words)
One author can submit up to 7000 words (20 pages) for publication.
We accept both complete works (short prose) and extracts (prose), as well as synopses (a promo description of a future novel) for publication in the anthology.
Works are published in the collection ‘Open Eurasia’. The author gets their copy in electronic format.
3. Non-fiction
HOW TO APPLY?
STEP 1:
Just check to see if you’re a member of the Eurasian Creative Guild. You should have a certificate to prove you’re a member. If you don’t have a membership, just go to the Guild’s website , choose a membership category and fill in the form. Then a manager will get in touch with you.
STEP 2:
Fill in the participant form ↓
TERMS
We’ve got four subcategories within the non-fiction category:
— Non-fiction – This is for non-fiction works that don’t fit into the other categories.
— Academic work – This includes monographs and collections of scholarly articles.
— Historical Heritage – This covers historical narratives, history books, biographies of prominent people, and memoirs.
— Publicist – This includes essays,feuilletons, pamphlets, and articles on social issues or phenomena.
You can only submit one piece of non-fiction in this category. So, you can’t submit a biography in historical heritage and an article in journalism at the same time.
STEP 3:
Submit your artwork
On completion of the registration form it is necessary to send all documents to: konkurs@ocamagazine.com
You will need to format your email with the following:
— Subject Line: [category] [your name]
— Email content:
- a synopsis and/or an excerpt from the work (from 1000 to 1500 words) for publication on the contest website. (in .docx format)
- the full text of the work (as an attachment)
- a photo of the author (alone) in good quality (size not less than 1 Mb)
- the work you want to publish in the collection (1 block is approximately 200 words)
Just a heads-up about publishing in the Open Eurasia collection:
Just a heads-up about publishing in the Open Eurasia collection:
It’s free for ECG members to publish one block.
For each additional block (about 200 words), there’s a £30 charge.
If you register before 1 December 2024, ECG members get 20% off the cost of publishing additional blocks, except for members in the ‘Contestant’ category. The cost is £24.
One author can submit up to 7000 words (20 pages) for publication.
We accept both complete works (short prose) and extracts (prose), as well as synopses (a promo description of a future novel) for publication in the anthology.
Works are published in the collection ‘Open Eurasia’. The author gets their copy in electronic format.
Just a heads-up: the organisers can change any of the conditions or parameters on the official competition website without telling anyone else involved. We’ll only be notifying the registered participants about any changes via the email address they’ve given us on their application form.
The publication fee is non-refundable.
GDPR: The OEBF organisers collect information, including personal contact information, for further use during the organisation of the festival. It’s an integral part of your participation in the competition, so you can’t take part without it. We won’t store or share any of your information without a request from the OEBF first.