Topic
The topic is open. Any type of entry that meets the submission criteria below is eligible. Multiple entries welcome.

Submission Criteria
• The contest is open to prose works.
• Entries can be fiction, non-fiction or creative non-fiction.
• Entries must be previously unpublished and not under consideration by any other publication.
• Entries must be original and not a translation of a previously published work.
• Maximum length: 2,000 words.
• IMPORTANT: No poetry, plays, reviews and scholarly essays. No footnotes and endnotes. No pseudonyms.
• Submissions must be in Word or txt format.
• No e-mail or fax submissions.

Language
• Submissions must be in English.
• Submissions can be an English translation of the author's unpublished original work in another language.

Participants
The contest is open to all writers, established and emerging, worldwide.

Judging
Blind judging.

Announcement of Results
Winners will be contacted in Spring 2012, and their names will subsequently be posted on Accenti Online.