Cuentamontes
2011 Edition
Literature: Mountaneer Tales and Stories.
Cuentamontes , in colaboration with "Centro Excursionista de Petrer" and "Clup Alpino Eldense", anounces the IV Contest of short stories and tales "Cuentamontes", with the mountains and mountaneers as the main topic. The goal of this contest is to promote the literary and artistic spreading of mountain topics.
The contest pursues the diffusion of the mountaneer literature and, in order to achieve that goal, the organizers publish a Cuentamontes book colection. Every book renunites the winner stories of every edition and a short biography of the mountaneer guest of honour in that edition. The main topic of the stories and/or tales is the mountain in all its sporting specialities (hiking, trekking, climbing...) The contestant must follow this requirements:
REQUIREMENTS:
1) Authors:
The contest is open. Stories written in Spanish or English whose authors are
18 or more are accpted. Nacionality is not an issue to participate. The contest will not accept stories written by the contest's jury members nor stories written by the year before winner.
There is a local category. Only authors born or living in Petrel or Elda can opt to that prize.
2) Stories:
The stories must be original and unpublished. They should not have been awarded in any other literary contest. This rule has to be observed until the results are published.
They must be typed and turned in DIN A 4 paper sheets written only on the front of the paper. Handwritten documents are not accepted. The font must be Times New Roman or similar in size 12, regular margin and double interlinear space. The length can not be superior to twelve pages nor inferior to 6. They must lack details that can refer or identify the author. In another envelope the author must include: ID number or any other document that can identify the author, authot's name, last name, adress , phone number and e-mail .Also, on the outside of the envelope, as well as in the inside, the alias or nickname of the author and the story title must be written. Every author can send as many stories as they want but they can only win one prize.
3) SendingG/Submiting
The presentation of the stories can be made in person or by mailing 5 copies to the following adress: Certamen Literario Cuentamontes, Servicio Ofiprint, C/ Don Quijote, 81, 03600, ELDA (Alicante) SPAIN. You can also send it via e-mail in two separate mails, the story must be sent to: cuentamontes@dahellos.com, and all the personal information and the sealed tender must be sent to mochilla@dahellos.com
4) Dates, deadline, and selection process.
Deadline is on September 10th.
Out of all stories received only ten will be selected in a first round. Those 10
finalist will be knonw around October 30th at the contest web page: www.cuentamontes.com
The final winners will be known by the end of november and that will be the time when the sealed tenders will be open and the real information of the contestants will be known. The local prize will go to the local highest clasified out of the ten finalist. If there were not any local among the finalists, the jury will choose the winner out of the three local stories with more votes.
The results of the contest will be published on the previously mentioned webpages. The awards ceremony will take place in a place, date and time that will be announced at some point.
Once the results had been made public, non finalist stories will be destroyed and there will be no further contact with the authors.
5) Prizes:
Cuentamontes first prize: 500 Euro and the edition of the story in a book.
Cuentamontes local prize: 150 Euro, and the edition of the story in a book.
Finalist of the Cuentamontes and finalist of the local prize: Acreditative Diploma and the edition of the stories un a book.
IMPORTANT: The moment the book is printed, all winners will get two copies of the book. One same author can't receive two or more prizes.
6) Jury
The organization will name the selection and election jury among relevant people of the literary and mountaneering world. The decision of the jury will be not open to appeal.
Any of the prizes can be declared empty (nule) if the stories presented did not have the required level. Jury will get only the stories, they will never know the personal information of the contestants. That information will only be knonw after the results are published. The participation in this contest implies the agreement with its conditions. Any unforeseen event will be solved by the respective jury. Its decisions will be not open to appeal.
7) Edition.
Cuentamontes will publish the finalist stories in the book Cuentamontes 2011, this not meaning that the authors can not publish the same stories anywhere else. In that case, the authos must make clear the prize obtained in this contest "Cuentamontes"
8) Information:
To widen (extend) information you can write to mochila@dahellos.com or call to (0034- 625531181 and 627080859. To follow the news about the contest www.cuentamontes.com

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