The contest
runs from March 20th through June 20th, 2018
The theme
of the contest this year is «Luggage»
First
prize: A week’s holiday in the island
of Crete
First three
winners’ stories published in two different anthologies (Greek and English).
All the
stories of the Shortlist will be published in a special English edition,
released through amazon.com & strangedays books. Entry fee: 10 €
Judge:
Maria Psoma-Petridou
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PRIZES & HONORABLE MENTIONS
– First prize is a
week’s holiday on the island
of Crete. Three Rock,
(Triopetra, Rethymnon, Crete) is a studio for
2 people (with beds for two children also available). Air tickets not included.
You can see more details here: http://three-rock.blogspot.gr/
First prize winner can
choose his/her preferred week of stay in 2019 except for the dates between July
15th – August 25th.
• First three prize winners will get a free copy
of the book with the winning stories of our contest & a certificate & a
Greek handmade ceramic from the collection of Omodamos Clayart (see below)
• All the shortlisted stories will be published
in an anthology. The book will be released through “Strange Days” publications
and www.amazon.co.uk in November, 2018
• All the shortlisted writers will also get a
free copy of the book! First, Second
and Third prize:
publication of your story in an anthology of the shortlisted stories of the
contest (Greek section), translated in Greek.
• The three
prize winners will also get a free copy of the book with the winning stories of
our contest & certification document & a Greek handmade ceramic from
the collection of Omodamos Clayart*
• All the
shortlisted stories will be published in an anthology. The book will be
released through “Strange Days” publications and
www.amazon.co.uk
• All the
shortlisted writers will also get
a free copy of the book &
certification document. Plus
a book from Strange Days Books –for free!!
• An interview with the first prize winner will
also be featured in eyelands.gr
• In case the first prize winner does not claim
the prize of a week’s holiday in Crete or does not book a specific week for
her/his holidays at Three Rock Studio, the second (and then the third) prize
winner will be notified in order to take her/his place.
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NOTE: Free
entry for the shortlisted writers of previous contests
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RULES OF THE CONTEST (ENGLISH SECTION)
* Theme of
the contest: «Luggage».
*Entries
must be short stories, of any genre, and maximum length is 2,500 words and must
be previously unpublished in a book, printed magazine or web-based journal.
Entries must be in English.
* The contest closes
at midnight UTC on Wednesday, 20th of June
*This is an
international contest. There is no restriction such as nationality etc of the
author, but you have to be 18 years old on the 21st of March 2018 to enter the contest.
* No
“eyelands” editor, judge, or relative of theirs, is allowed to enter.
* Entries must
be submitted electronically (see below).
* Winners and
the shortlist to be announced on September 10th, 2018
* Copyright
of manuscripts remains to the author.
* In
addition to the story being published on www.eyelands.gr, the author's acceptance
of the prize gives eyelands.gr the right to include the story in the anthology
that will appear in book form. Entry grants permission to include the three
prize winners and the shortlisted stories in the book which will be published
and will be available from “Strange Days” publications.
* There is a limit for
the stories to be published in the anthology: no more than 25. In case we
receive more than 200 submissions, 12 more stories will be chosen and published
online on eyelands.gr! Eyelands will feature one story every month, between
November 2018 and November 2019
* There
will be two collections of stories - one that will be published in Greek including
the translated stories of the first three winners of the English Section and
another one with all the Shortlisted stories of the English Section.
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ENTRY FORM AND PAYMENT
Pay via
paypal - See the banner in eyelands Home Page.
See also
here: https://eyelandscontes.wordpress.com/
Click the «buy now» button. Fill the description with:
Luggage
Entry fee is 10 euros
* After the payment is complete, you can send the e-mail with
your story attached in word. doc /docx format to:
or
writing in the subject line: Eyelands Short Story
Contest or just ΕSSC
*An email
confirmation that your entry has been received will be sent within three/four
days after receiving your e-mail
*We don’t
accept postal entries
* We do accept
simultaneous submissions
* Every writer can
submit more than one story as long as they pay the full entry fee for each
story
* Name and
address of the author should appear only
in the body of the email
*The title
of your story can be anything other than ‘’Luggage’’
*There is
no entry fee for the prize winners of previous eyelands international short
story contests
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JUDGE/ Maria
Psoma Petridou
Maria was born and lives in Thessaloniki -
Greece.
She is an English teacher. She has published two poetry collections,
"Lifetime Service" 2006, "A second pair of wings" 2010. She
writes poetry & fiction in Greek and English. A lot of her work has been published
in Literature Magazines in Greece
and online. In 2006 she was awarded the 2nd prize for her poem "The Bate"
from the Greek - Australian Cultural League of Melbourne, in 2009 the 2nd prize:
“Antonis Samarakis" for her story: “Even if it's found it will chase
me". This was also the title of her first short story collection, released
in 2015 by
Strange Days Books. In 2016 she published the novel «Second
Pair of wings». Maria teaches Creative Writing and also writes a weekly column about books in
Thessnews Newspaper
& portal. She has been the co-ordinator of a book club for nine years. For
the past four years
she's been a collaborator in www.eyelands.gr as well as a judge of its poetry
and international story competitions.
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ABOUT THREE ROCK
Three Rock
is a very special studio
just a few hundred
meters from Triopetra beach, one of the most beautiful beaches of Crete. Three-Rock is a studio designed to accommodate two
to four people the studio is one very large furnished room of 70 sq.m., (with
separate bathroom) with a lot of space which allows you to cook, dine, or just relax
all day if you prefer! Studio at the ground floor and apartment at the first floor are listed on: /air bnb, holiday lettings/ house
trip etc.
Mind that
Triopetra beach is at the very centre of South Crete,
which means (provided you rent a car) easy access to places like Spili,
Preveli, Plakias, Amari plateau (westward) & Agia Galini, Matala, Phestos
(eastward)
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links
www.eyelands.gr
https://eyelands.gr/english-section/
www.eyelands.gr
https://eyelands.gr/english-section/
https://eyelandscontes.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/eyelands.portal/
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STRANGE
DAYS BOOKS
www.paraxenesmeres.gr
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www.paraxenesmeres.gr
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THREE ROCK
STUDIO
http://three-rock.blogspot.gr/
https://www.airbnb.gr/rooms/3516767
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OMODAMOS
CLAYART
https://dryadsite.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/omodamos/
https://dryadsite.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/omodamos/
