The Holiday Awards

Judging Criteria

How It Works:

Judges, please be aware that if you are accepted as a judge for a category you will be working with 2 others. There will be 6 entries per genre and 3 judges per category. Each judge will be responsible for 3 entries of the category and will have to pick 1 out of the 3 to place in the final decisions. Once you have made your decision, you will share your results with the other judges and all together will you decide what place holdings the entries will have. Afterwards you will submit the final winnings to the community.

If our explanation was confusing, here's an example of what we're talking about . . .

Riley, Lloyd, and Nathaniel are all accepted as the judges for the category, "Christmas Eve." There's 6 entries in the category and the curator of the Awards splits the entries between each of them. After following the Judging Criteria, Riley, Nathaniel, and Lloyd all pick 1 book out of the 3 they were each given. They then went into the UWC's Discord/Instagram and shared their results with each other. After a while they all agreed on the final place holdings of the category. Nathaniel's book will be in 1st Place, Riley's in 2nd, and Lloyd's in 3rd. After finalizing, they sent their results to the community and were finally done.

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GUIDELINES:

Title (5pts)

Does the title match the story? Is it properly spelled?

Cover (5pts)

Does the cover go with the story? Can you clearly see the full title and author's name?

Description (15pts)

How detailed is the description? Does it give enough away to hook you on the story or does it give away too much of the story? Does it hint at what the story is going to be about or does it directly state it?

Transition (20 pts)

Does the story move along smoothly and effectively, without any abrupt or choppy switches in the story?

Spelling and Grammar (15 pts)

Are there little to no spelling or grammar mistakes? Do the sentences make sense? Is everything spelt and punctuated correctly? Are the sentences properly spaced and are the speaking parts indented?

Writing Limit (10 pts)

Does the story stay within the writing linit set? (Minimum 25,000 words, maximum 5 chapters excluding Prologue)

Theme (30 pts)

Does the story relate to the theme of the contest category?

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**Please remember that if you need more time, please message the community or the curator, BJBrijmohan, 1 week in advance with reason as to why you need more time**

**Deadline for all judging is January 1st, 2022; 11:59 PM EDT**

**Either Instagram or Discord will be needed to confir with the other judges. A vote will be taken later to decide which app is better to use**