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Set your title type in black 14 pt Times, Times New Roman, Helvetica or Arial. Update: In Upper/Lower (Title Case), please, and NOT All Capitals. |
| b |
Set your byline, in black 12 pt Times, Times New Roman, Helvetica or Arial. Update: In Upper/Lower (Title Case), please, and NOT All Capitals. |
| c |
Set your body text in black 10 pt Times, Times New Roman, Helvetica or Arial. Update: No All Capitals, naturally. (Yes, we have received entire submissions typed out in capital letters. Yes, it is irritating, innit? No, obviously you wouldn't do something like that. Others might. So we're specifying.) |
| d |
Please do not use any other kind of formatting, no matter how much value you think it adds to your words.
Update: That means:
NO style sheets
NO fancy underlining or colours
NO paragraph indents
NO drop capitals
NO capitalised first few word of a sentence
NO html-ised web or email addresses
(There's a reason here. All that fancy stuff will be stripped before typesetting anyway. If we have to do it, we might screw something up. Or maybe we'll get irritated and reject the file.) |
| e |
At the end of the RTF attachment that contains your submission (not in the body of your email), include:
- the exact word count of your submission
- Update: A statement saying you have read and understood the Terms and Conditions.
- your name (Update: This need not be the byline your story will appear under. You can choose - if your story is selected, to have it published under a pen name.)
- your postal address
- your email address(es) (Update: Do not html-ise this, please)
- your phone number(s) (Update: With local code)
This helps us keep your entry and your contact info together in the same file. We will reject stories without this information.
Update: Do not tell us more than this at this stage. We'd love to get to know you better, but not now. If your story is selected, we will ask you for some biographical information for the Authors' introductory sections..
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| f |
(Added on 18th October 2004)
Please name your file with the title of the story, separating words with an underscore, like so: "sing_a_song_of_sixpence.rtf"
Note: This will not disqualify stories submitted before the 18th October that do not meet this condition. We had to add this because some people did not realise that while "caferati.rtf" or "short_story.rtf" may be unique on your computer, there are plenty of other people who may have had the same idea.
Our apologies for not thinking of this earlier.
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