Emerging Writers Contest by The Dream Foundry [Prizes Upto Rs. 80k]: Submit Entries by Oct 8!

The Dream Foundry is organising an Emerging Writers Contest for writers all around the world. Win prizes upto Rs. 80,000!

About The Dream Foundry

The Dream Foundry is an incubator for something wonderful. Their mission is to bolster and sustain the nascent careers of professionals working in the field of speculative literature.

To do this, they will launch a contest which will provide a venue to spotlight their work, and offer a prize consisting of a cash reward and a fully funded workshop designed to support mentorship, professional development, and career-oriented networking.

Eligibility for the Contest

This contest is for writers who are relatively new to paid or incoming-earning publication of speculative short fiction in English. To be eligible for this contest, all four rules below must be true of you:

• You have published a total of less than 4,000 words of paid or income-earning speculative fiction in English.
• You have earned a total of less than USD 320 (Rs. 25,549.98) from those words.
• You have never been nominated for any award listed here as a major award in speculative fiction.
• You are not a previous winner of The Dream Foundry writing contest.
• Please note that you are on the honour system for judging your own eligibility. However, they may disqualify any entrants in order to uphold the spirit of this contest’s goals; such determinations of eligibility are decided by The Dream Foundry and are not open to debate or argument.

Submission Guidelines

• Submit one complete and finalized story of up to 10,000 words via their submission manager.
• All entries are final. No revisions are accepted.
• No multiple submissions (do not send more than one story.)
• Your submission must be previously unpublished at the time of submission, but simultaneous submissions (submitting the story to us while also submitting elsewhere) is allowed.
• Entries can be from any country.
• All entries must be original prose works in English. Plagiarism, poetry, song lyrics, or stories that utilize characters or settings from another person’s works will not be considered.
• The manuscript should be in standard manuscript format and should be titled and numbered on every page, but the author’s name MUST BE DELETED from the manuscript file to facilitate fair judging.

How to Submit?

To submit your entries, click here.

To read the official submission guidelines of the Emerging Writers Contest by The Dream Foundry, click here.