Red Ink Publishing Writing Competition 2018
Rules, Terms & Conditions and Data Privacy Information​

Competition Rules
 
The competition is open to children and adults who are UK residents.
 
There are 5 entry categories:
1.   Pupils aged 10 & 11 (at 31st August 2018)
2.   Pupils aged 12-14 (at 31st August 2018)
3.   Pupils aged 15 & 16 (at 31st August 2018)
4.   Pupils aged 17 & 18 at (31st August 2018)
5.   Adults aged 19 to 100
 
Word limit for all entries is 250 words, not including the title. There is no minimum length.
 
The entries must be written on one of the 4 themes:

• A holiday surprise
• Lost and found at the seaside
• My favourite place to read
• The arrival of autumn

General Competition Administration

• Entry is free. Entries are limited to one per individual.
• Closing date for receipt of all entries is Monday 1st October 2018 at 11:59pm BST.
• All entries must be in English. The word count is 250 words maximum.
• Please include your category number and story title option.

 
Making an entry

• Entries can be made by email or by post. For pupils, entries must be submitted by an adult (parent / guardian).
• Emailed entries should be in a Word document or similar, or plain text file.
• Please send postal entries to: Writing Competition, Red Ink Publishing, The King’s Centre, 33-35 Victoria Rd, Burgess Hill RH15 9LR.
• Postal entries will not be returned. Please keep a copy. No corrections or alterations can be made after receipt of an entry.
• Entrants will not be contacted individually about the competition results unless they are selected as the winners.
• Any entrant wishing to withdraw a story from the competition, before the closing date, can do so, but must notify us in writing. In the event of wanting to withdraw your entry, please send your request to: Writing Competition, Red Ink Publishing, The King’s Centre, 33-35 Victoria Rd, Burgess Hill RH15 9LR.
• If you require acknowledgement of receipt of your postal entry then please enclose a stamped addressed postcard marked ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Online entries can, if required, have a read receipt attached to the email.
• Entry implies an acceptance of all the rules of the Writing Competition, and our Privacy Policy. Entries that fail to comply with the entry rules and requirements may be disqualified.
• The entrant’s name, age, school, or designated school if no longer in Primary, Secondary or Sixth Form education,  and contact details should appear on their stories/manuscripts.

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Judging

• Judging criteria will include the use of language, including accuracy of spelling and grammar (relative to the age of the entrant).
• The judges’ decision is final and no individual correspondence will be entered into.
• Judges or readers will not comment on individual stories or give feedback on individual stories.

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Originality, rights and other competitions

• Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been previously published, in print or online, or broadcast or won a prize in another writing competition. Any entry found to have been plagiarised will be disqualified.​
• If your entry has been long-listed or short-listed in other competitions but has not won a prize or been published, then it remains eligible for this competition.
• Simultaneous submissions are accepted – but please let us know as soon as possible if a story is to be published elsewhere or has won a prize in another writing competition as this will preclude you from winning prizes in this competition.
• Authors will retain worldwide copyright on their work (including film and dramatic rights) but Red Ink Publishing Ltd will have the unrestricted right to publish the winning stories in print or online, and any further relevant promotional material.
• No competitor may win more than one prize.

Competition Prizes
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• For each category there will be a prize of: one 5fingers T-shirt, one copy of Joshua Raven's 5fingers: initiation and one free school author visit for the child’s school, or, for the adult winner, a school of their choice.
• Red Ink Publishing Ltd will contact the school to offer and arrange the free school visit with Joshua Raven, which the school is at liberty to accept or decline.
• Prizes will be awarded on Saturday, 6 October 2018, after Joshua Raven’s Creative Writing Workshop at the 2018 Cuckfield Book Festival, and will be sent to any of the finalists who are unable to attend the awards ceremony. Prizes are not dependent on winners attending the Book Festival.

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Data Privacy Information

What personal information will be collected by Red Ink Publishing?
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• Stories must be submitted by an adult (parent / guardian). The submitter will supply details of the entrant’s name, age and school. The submitter will supply details of their own name, email address and phone number, and relationship to the entrant.
• By submitting a competition entry, the submitter agrees to their details, and the details of the entrant, being processed by Red Ink Publishing for the purposes of the competition.
• Competition entrants may also be asked to provide their postal address, for the purposes of awarding a winning prize.

 
How will Red Ink Publishing use data collected?
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All data will be collected for competition administration purposes. Red Ink Publishing may contact entrants with competition information and updates. Red Ink Publishing will not sell or pass on the details to any third party and will keep them secure. Should you wish your details to be removed from our database, please send an email to info@redinkpublishing.co.uk with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the subject line. 
 
Red Ink Publishing will only hold entries for one year after the competition has ended. After this time, all stories will be removed from Red Ink Publishing systems unless otherwise notified in an email to the submitter asking permission to retain the entry story, poem or description.
 
Red Ink Publishing will not share entrant’s data with anyone else.
 
If entrants or submitters would like to see details of the information held by Red Ink Publishing, they can contact Red Ink Publishing and ask to edit or remove data.

​Contact details are: competition2018@redinkpublishing.co.uk  and Red Ink Publishing Ltd, The King’s Centre, 33-35 Victoria Rd, Burgess Hill RH15 9LR.