Submissions are now being accepted for the October 2010 WordSprint. Please submit online at www.lagosliteraryjournal.com

October 1 to October 31 – Submissions accepted
November 1 to  November 30 – online voting
December 1 – Announcement of winner.

October  2010 prize – $100

NO ENTRY FEES

What is Word Sprint?
The objective of Word Sprint is for authors to have their work publicly evaluated and rewarded by peers and other interested parties from around the world. The judging process is transparent and can be dynamically followed on the internet .

How will Word Sprint be conducted?

  • Authors will submit their work (fiction, essays, poetry) for the month for which they want to compete through the LLAJ web site. To make a submission, authors must be registered users of the website.
  • Submissions made for a particular month are voted the next month.
  • Voting is done online through a sophisticated one-click process which ensures that a voter can only cast one vote .
  • At the end of the voting period, the five most popular submissions MAY again voted by a random panel of judges selected from amongst registered writers , to produce the final winner for the month.
  • For the annual prize , all the finalists for the months competed for in the year are again put up for voting to select the best of the best.
  • Only ONE submission (poetry, fiction or essay) may be made by any author for any single month

    • Who may participate?
    LLAJ Word Sprint is open to writers from all over the world . This is to maintain a high quality of submissions.

    How do you make a submission?
    No fees are charged for submissions; this competition is completely free. Submissions will however only be permitted through the LLAJ web site. For this the author must first be registered as a user, then must login before submitting to Word Sprint. This process is important because it not only ensure submission into the right month competition, but also permits the author to vote.

    How reliable is the voting process ?
    The registration, submission and voting process are monitored by a sophisticated mechanism which filters out fake accounts and ensures that only one vote is cast by any user in any given month. The registration process takes only a few minutes

    Participants are however advised that even though the editors will do a preliminary screening of submissions for quality , THIS IS PRIMARILY A POPULARITY COMPETITION and entries without any vote will be removed after 2 weeks into the voting process . Also if no satisfactory winner emerges , the voting period may be extended.

    What is the value of the prizes?
    There is a minimum prize for the monthly and annual competitions. The greatest prize to the winner will be the prestige of having their work read and evaluated by persons from all over the world.

    Visit the website: http://www.lagosliteraryjournal.com/?q=content/llaj-word-sprint