The contest runs from January 20th through April 20th, 2025
The theme of the contest this year is «2025»
First prize: 500 euro
All the stories of the short list will be published & released through amazon.com & strange days books.
Entry fee: 10 €, (15 per 2 stories, 20 euro per 3 stories)
Judges: Writers of the short list vote for the grand prize winner
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RULES OF THE CONTEST
* Theme of the contest: 2025. We want stories inspired of this year
*Entries must be short stories, of any genre, maximum length is 3, 000 words and must be previously unpublished in a book. Entries must be in English.
* The contest closes at midnight UTC on 20th of April
*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 20th of January 2025 to enter the contest otherwise there a parental permission needed.
* No eyelands.gr or strange days books’editor, judge, or relative of them, is allowed to enter.
* Entries must be submitted electronically (see below).to: eyelandsmag@gmail.com’
* Shortlist to be announced on May10th, 2025
* Writers of the short list will vote for the grand prize winner, to be announced on June, 20, 2025
*Voting for the best story is obligatory for the writers otherwise their story will not be published.
* Copyright of manuscripts remains to the author.
* In addition to the story being published on http://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 shortlisted stories in the book.
PRIZES
First prize is 500 euro, plus a translated in Greek version of the first prize, published online on eyelands.gr
All the shortlisted stories –no more than 20- will be published in the anthology.
All the shortlisted writers will also get a free copy of the book sending only 5 euro for the shipping cost.
ENTRY FORM AND PAYMENT
Pay via paypal – See the banner and all the details here: http://www.eyelandsawards.com
Click the «buy now» button. Fill the description with: EISSC
Entry fee is 10 euros per story
*Email your story without your name
*An email confirmation that your entry has been received will be sent within three days after receiving your e-mail
*We don’t accept postal entries
* We do accept simultaneous submissions
* Every writer can submit till three stories but only one story per writer will be shortlisted/published
* Name and address of the author should appear only in the body of the email
Eyelands.gr launched its first international short story contest in 2010. We launched 10 consecutive contests till 2020. And here we are again with the 11th Eyelands Inernational Short Story Contest!
Thanks and Good luck to all!!
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