Hidden Gems Awards 2018 [CONCLUDED]

✧ judging criteria

Here, I'll go over what the judges will be looking at while reading your book. I'll also go over, for judges, how they will submit scores to me.

Judges will PM me results on time. For the first four rounds, your PMs will be formatted like this:

Author:
Title:
(Total) Score:

For the final round, the PMs judges send me will look a little different:

Author:
Title:
(Total) Score:
Review (does not have to be long, just has to include constructive/positive comments):

Scores will be decided as such:

- title (out of 5)
- plot (out of 10)
- characterization (out of 10)
- cover (out of 5)
- description (out of 5)
- grammar (out of 10)
- creativity (out of 10)

The highest score will then be 55 points.

For the poetry genre, the scoring rubric will be different:

- title (out of 5)
- message/impact (out of 10)
- word choice/technique (out of 10)
- cover (out of 5)
- description (out of 5)
- grammar (out of 10)
- creativity (out of 10)

Each judge will start off with 10 books (ideally). This number is subject to change depending on how many participants are in each genre.