A new contest! Are you the kind of writer who likes to have your words performed, not read on a page? You’ll like this one.
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Deadline
Midnight (Indian Standard Time), 8th 10th February, 2009
Rules and Conditions
Please re-read and edit your entry before you submit. If you discover an error only after you get your acknowledgement email, and then resubmit a corrected entry, Our contest engine may delete both entries as duplicates. If our screening jury finds almost identical entries that have slipped past the contest engine, they will delete both entries. Please also do not even think of emailing us and asking us to edit your entry in the contest database. We’ll just delete your entry and won’t tell you we’ve done so.
Please do not put any personally identifying information in the body of your entry. By this we mean no byline, signature, credit line, copyright notice or symbol. If you have filled out the fields for name, email address and phone number, never fear, your entry is linked to that data by the system. The body of your entry is all our jury will see, and all that they want to see. Entries that ignore this will be seen to be trying to influence the jury, and will be disqualified.
Different word processors frequently have different ways of counting words. If your word processor tells you you have X number of words, and our contest engine’s word count says you have exceeded X, we’re sorry, but our contest engine rules. Any emails to the contest organisers or contest admin complaining about this or asking that we change the way our word processor works or insisting that your entry be accepted despite it exceeding our word count will result in the instant deletion of all entries associated with your email address.
The contest is open to anyone, anywhere, with the exception of the jury and their immediate family members.
Note, however, that you must have a bank account and mailing address in India, or, if you win, be able to nominate someone in India to receive your prize.
Entries must be no longer than 350 words, including introductions, stage directions and other descriptions, and character names.
Entries must be in English.
Entries must be your own, original work, and previously unpublished anywhere, in print or online.
We interpret “published” to mean that there was some form of editorial or jury selection and/or payment involved. So work that appeared on a personal blog or unmoderated forum is okay, but something that won you a prize somewhere is not. Something that may have been selected to be printed in a newspaper is published, whether you got paid for it or not.
Multiple entries are permitted. Do not duplicate entries, however. We will delete all copies of your entry from the system if you flood it.
There is no entry fee.
Submissions remain the intellectual property of the entrants, but by submitting an entry, you give the the Kala Ghoda Association, the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival and its Sponsors, and Caferati permission to use your entry, with acknowledgement, but with no payment to you, in their websites, as part of Press Releases (where they may be reproduced by media organisations), and in a possible special booklet or CD featuring the best of the Festival.
The decisions of the jury are final and binding, and no correspondence will be entertained regarding the jury’s decisions.
Jury
Caferati’s editors will screen the initial entries to keep the long list to a reasonable number. In the second round of judging, they will be joined by:
Deepa Gahlot is a journalist, critic and columnist, as well as editor, author and screenwriter. She won the National Award for Best Film Criticism in 1998. Her work has appeared in anthologies on women’s studies and cinema, the latest being Bollywood: Popular Indian Cinema published by Dakini, London and Behind the Scenes of Hindi Cinema; A Visual Journey through the Heart of Bollywood edited by Johan Manschot & Marijke de Vos and Janani, edited by Rinki Bhattacharya. Her books on Prithvi Theatre, Shah Rukh Khan and Shammi Kapoor have been published recently.
Manjula Padmanabhan is a writer and artist. Her books include Hot Death, Cold Soup, Getting There and This is Suki! Her most recent book is Escape, a novel set in a dystopian future. Harvest, her fifth play, won first prize in the 1997 Onassis Award for Theatre in Greece. Her comic strip character “Suki” appeared weekly in Bombay’s Sunday Observer (1982-86), daily in New Delhi’s Pioneer (1991-97) — and has very recently been revived online, at Another Subcontinent.
She has illustrated twenty-four books for children including her own two novels, Mouse Attack and Mouse Invaders. Her most recent exhibition was in Madras at Art World, in December 2004. You can visit her blog at http://www.marginalien.blogspot.com
Anuvab Pal was based in the US for 12 years where his plays include Chaos Theory (over 150 productions including the only Indian play to be The Finalist at The BBC World Playwriting Competition 2007), Out of Fashion, Life, Love and EBITDA, FATWA (Only Indian playwright at The New York International Fringe Festival 2004), Paris. In 2005 he was nominated to the Dramatists Guild of America, the only playwright born in India to have that distinction and the same year, Playbill Magazine (Broadway’s leading theatre magazine) named him “the leading South Asian playwright in the US”. He remains the only Indian to have won The Best Play award for his play Out of Fashion at The Edward Albee Theater Festival in Alaska in 2004. He won The Lark Theater-Indo American Council Playwright Fellowship 2007 in NYC for a new commissioned play. His last play The President is Coming (QTP Productions) is running across India to packed houses and rave reviews. His screenplays include The President is Coming, Loins of Punjab Presents, and Crossroads, selected for The Mumbai International Film Festival’07 and The Osian Film Festival 2007.
Prizes
Prizes worth approximately Rs 3000, Rs 2000, and Rs 1000 to be won.
Winners will be announced on the evening of 15th February, 2009, at the David Sassoon Library Garden.
Updates
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How to enter
Go to the submission page and fill up the form.
Note that this is the only way to enter the contest. So please don’t ask us to consider entries by any other means.
