NOTICE TO AUTHORS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue VI, 10 February 1894, Page 137

NOTICE TO AUTHORS.

Story Competition Prizes — ’Xmas 1894. FIRST PRIZE £5 0 0 SECOND PRIZE £3 0 0 THIRD PRIZE £2 0 0 The stories must not be less than 4,000, or more than 5,000 words in length, and free from anything unsuitable for all classes of readers. It will be seen by Rule 7 that the broadest scope is allowed. So that the scene of the story is laid in New Zealand, the choice of subject is unlimited. RULES. 1. The Graphic reserves the right to publish any story sent in other than the prize stories. 2. MSS. will not be returned before the result is announced, and applications before that date will not receive attention. After the results of the Competition are made known, the Editor will post such unsuccessful MSS. as may not be required to those who then make application enclosing stamps. 3. The Editor cannot undertake to answer inquiries having reference to the treatment of the stories in detail. The particulars given are sufficient for the purposes of the Competition, and everything else is left to the judgment and discretion of the competitors. The award of the judges will be published as soon after the close of the Competition as possible, and no information respecting the award will be given to any competitor before this publication. 4. Each MSS. should be prepaid, and if left open at the ends will be carried at book post rates. It should be addressed to the ‘Editor, New Zealand Graphic, Shortland-street, Auckland.' 5. A motto instead of the writer’s name must be written under the title of the story. The author’s real name must be enclosed in an envelope addressed to the editor. BEARING THE MOTTO AND THE WORDS ‘STORY COMPETITION ’ ON THE TOP LEFT CORNER. This envelope must not be placed in the MSS. packet, but must be posted separately. It must also contain a declaration that tho work is original and entirely the sender’s own. 6. All contributions must reach the office before May 15th. 7. Choice of subject rests with writer, but the scene must be laid in New’ Zealand, and be of special interest to New Zealanders. It may deal with any subject, natural, supernatural, love, heroism, adventure, life on the gumfields, gold mines or country search for treasure, fighting or peace, in fact anything bright and interesting, and free from anything unsuitable for family reading. 8. Write clearly, and on one side of the paper only. No paper Zarpcr than foolscap should bo used. In cases of equal literary merit, preference will be given to stories lending themselves to illustration.