Literature Competition For Writers, From Submission To Evaluation, and Perspectives

This is an explanatory page for authors regarding our competition framework. We suggest that, first of all, authors acquaint themselves with the process before submitting their participation.

Just below, our honorable authors will find all basic information about the design of the workflow that we may subdivide into four main topics: submission and creation process; editioning and correcting process; the works' translation, first filter, and calibration of the translated samples of arts; evaluation and rewards.

As you may read in the context, we create not a simple winners get all, but the qualiitative approach, so anyway if your work deserves attention by art value and literary standards, the work will be granted with an ability to be exposed publicly with notifications from our competition fellows as passed review and brief explanatory recensions.

Once you decide to enter the competition as a contestant, you pay the competition fee, and your work is then activated as a contestant entry within the competition process.

At this moment, you will be granted access to the writer cabinet (you may find the button leading to the writer cabinet on the right-side sidebar of the sidebar tools).

The description of the writer cabinet may be found at the link directly below.

Navigate to the writer cabinet description and regulation page.

From the start of the competition submission period (the competition opening date) until the end of the submission period, we have established a duration of 90 calendar days.

This is the first stage of the competition process. The creation process assumes that you will compose the work within the writer's cabinet interface. Full access from mobile devices is not provided, as such a delicate process requires precision in typing, care in correcting the content, and a broader working perspective than a mobile phone or tablet may comfortably provide. However, with such devices, you will still be able to open the work and carry out certain simple editorial actions.

On the 90th day from the date on which the competition submission process begins, submissions for the competition will close, and you will be granted an additional 10 days to finalise your work, edit it, and prepare it for participation with the final polish of the piece.

The 101st day from the competition start date is the final day on which all works designated for the competition will be automatically marked by the system as READY, after which the calibration and evaluation processes will take effect.

You also have the ability to complete this process earlier, should you decide that your work is ready, and we have designed this option for you accordingly. However, once you press the READY button, you should understand that this action will result in the restriction of any further editing or polishing of the work.

Once you set the created work as READY, the work will undergo the AI translation process into all 14 languages we support, and on the following day your work will become accessible to readers around the world within the collection of competition works prior to evaluation. The competition category and index to which the work belongs will not be indicated, but your authorship will be made publicly accessible to readers. You will also be granted a direct link to the work, which you may share publicly in any manner you find appropriate. This collection will not be indexed, but the works will remain discoverable within the internal library of non-finalised competition entities. All works marked as READY will be automatically collected into the competition to which they belong at the close of the editing period, and, together with all other competition works, will proceed to the next stage. Public access to the work will then be closed, and the work will thereafter be subject to the common rules described below.

This is the first, and the second stages (submission + creation, and edditing the work) of the competition design.

This stage is devoted entirely to the translation of your work into all 14 languages we support, while the 15th remains your native language, in which the original work of art was created. A more detailed explanation of this approach may be found by following the link directly below.

The Translation Procedure of the Works

During the translation process, specialists will create a map of the work, including the native impression and the basic characteristics of the piece. If the work does not correspond to the category of the competition, they have the authority to disqualify it. The same applies if the work contains harmful material, terrorist propaganda, pornographic content, or other prohibited elements, as described in the requirements document for each category (you may find links to these regulations in the left-sided navigation bar).

All reasons for disqualification, together with any critical mistakes such as structural flaws or incorrect content design, will be clearly set forth. Remarks concerning such errors, along with the reasoning for the disqualification, will be included in the disqualification letter sent to the contestant.

Translation process. This stage is the “Human Eye” phase, during which linguists recalibrate the AI-translated content in accordance with the original meaning of the work, with the aim of preserving as much of its literary impact as possible in each translated version. The procedure mentioned above may be examined in greater detail by following the link to the relevant documentation.

At the end of this stage (the duration of the process is 15–17 days), all works classified as weak or inappropriate and therefore disqualified will be removed from publication. The files will remain accessible to their authors for 30 days, while the writer cabinet is still active, with the sole available option being to download the file containing the work.

The second cluster consists of well-structured and competently written works that, however, do not rise to the level of art. These works, after post-processing, will immediately become publicly available within the modern literature library under the category in which they were written, together with authorship rights, the author’s name, a short biography, and brief review comments from the linguistic specialists serving as a description of the work. These texts will be indexable as part of the beginning writers’ library.

The remaining works proceed to the final stage of our competition framework: evaluation by the committee.

As mentioned above, during the third stage all selected works are prepared together with the map schema by specialists who possess a strong command of the original language of the work.

The pool of selected works is then submitted to the committee, whose members are academic fellows of scholarly institutions connected with literary art, art criticism, or closely related fields of study.

The committee members read the works in translation into the language of which they are native speakers whenever the original work does not correspond to their native tongue, and, for the sake of accuracy in interpretation, they make use of the map mentioned earlier.

If the map does not fully correspond to the meanings conveyed by the work under examination, the translator is invited for consultation, and all necessary questions are clarified at this stage in order to ensure a fair judgement by the committee fellows.

At this point begins the stage of selecting the winners. From the full pool of works that has reached the final stage of evaluation, three of the most distinguished works are selected.

These three selected works are placed upon the Golden Page within the encyclopaedia, under the category of Modern Literature and within the corresponding competition category (the competition categories may be viewed in the left-side bar menu), together with a short author biography and remarks from the committee fellows.

All works selected for the final stage are presented in the New Authors Library within the category to which the work belongs.

The prize is available only to the three selected works within each category, and the amount is determined by the committee. The sum may vary, ranging from 50 USD to 1500 USD. As may be seen, the financial reward is largely symbolic; of far greater value are the certificate of competition victory and the permanent place granted within the Golden Page of the core encyclopaedia literature library.

All remarks, notifications, and recommendations issued by the committee will appear in the message menu of your writer cabinet, and you will likewise receive such notifications by email.