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Prose/full-length novel
➳ Showcase (Title/Cover/Blurb) / 5
The most weight is placed on your blurb for these marks.
➳ Premise and Hook / 10
How well you keep your audience engaged throughout, and the quality of your demonstrated premise.
➳ Exposition / 10
Appropriate use of showing and telling.
➳ Plot / 20
Round 1 focuses on initiating your plot. Round 2 focuses on its early progression. Round 3 looks at your plot as a whole.
➳ Character Development / 20
Whether your characters are interesting, multi-dimensional, and appear to believably affect the story with their flaws and actions.
➳ World building & setting / 20
Includes use of description to ground setting, and how well-developed your setting is.
➳ Grammar & delivery /5
This puts more stock on how well your writing functions to deliver information than particulars of comma placement.
➳ Overall Performance /10
Includes general enjoyment, genre-fit, and originality.
Total /100
(Judges, you will be sent a full breakdown of what we are looking for in this criteria. Participants are free to request)
The contest will be held in rounds for full works of prose
Round 1: First 3 chapters evaluated
Round 2: First 8 chapters evaluated
Round 3: Entire story evaluated
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Poetry
➳ Title/Cover /5
➳ Blurb /5
➳ Grammar/flow/rhythm /10
➳ Creativity /20
➳ Thematic Elements /20
➳ Symbolism/metaphors /20
➳ Clarity /20
Total /100
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Short Story
➳ Quality of Writing / 20 (writing, style, flow, grammar, etc.)
➳ Quality of Character(s) / 20 (believability, balanced in flaws / strengths, etc.)
➳ Quality of Story / 20 (plot, interesting, etc.)
➳ Creativity / 20 (original ideas, clarity in presentation, etc.)
➳ Overall / 20 (If you were to give it a score overall for how it performs)
Total /100
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Court of Miracles Awards
General FictionOpen: [] Judging [] Closed [ x] Welcome to the Court of Miracles Awards! NO LONGER ACCEPTING ENTRIES Timeline: November through December 2020: Accepting Entries January 2021: Judging Begins February 2021: Results
