SSC 99 - Rules And Submission Addresses

1. Contest runs from June 1st to August 31st.
2. No limit on number of stories.
3. Please submit only new stories.
4. Stories should have something to do with spanking.
5. Readers are allowed and encouraged to submit entries. They will not read and comment on their own work.
6. Each story will be read by one member of the reading panel, who will offer comments. Comments won't be made public until after the contest is over. There won't be a star system for rating stories.
7. However, in order to satisfy the competition jones of some folks, at the end of contest the NG will vote on best story in the following categories:
   • Romance
   • Historical
   • Domestic (ie, husband spanks wife or vice versa)
   • Schoolboy/girl
   • Science Fiction
   • Parent/child (or vice versa)
   • Edge fiction
   • Gender Play
   • Best Collaboration (I think it would be kewl to see some of our NG writers collaborate on stories)
   • Parody/tribute
   • M/M
   • F/F
   • Ageplay
   • Femdom
   • Stories that escape classification
8. Within the post itself please identify which category you're submitting the story to. If you're not sure which category to put your story into, I'll be happy to help. And if you don't want to categorize your story, no problem. Please submit it for the reading pleasure of the NG- you'll still get a comment, and who knows, a groundswell of support from the community may lead to you winning an award of some sort, anyway. That's anarchy at its best <g>.
9. Stories should be 500 words or less (not including titles, disclaimers, copyright notices, etc). I'm not going to get hung up on counting words, though, so we won't quibble about entries with 510 words.
10. Everyone will also be allowed to enter one long story (no more than 5000 words) into the festival. Each long story will be read by a volunteer and receive a comment; however, these stories will not be judged.

Important Technical Rules:

11. Entries should have a Subject that begins with SSC. Mail sent to the entry addresses without this may be shoved off to the side until a human was a chance to look at it and confirm that it really is a story.
12. Entries should be mailed to <ssc@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> and posted to the NG. Please make sure you e-mail your story to this address, otherwise it won't be forwarded to one of our readers.
13. If you normally post via an anonymity server, use a spam blocker in your address or just don't won't to get mail from an autoresponder, please mail your stories to <ssc-nr@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> instead. This just suppresses the sending of the confirmation note and is mainly intended to protect the contest tech support person from large numbers of bounce messages.
14. By entering a story you agree to allow it to be archived. The archive for this year's stories will be on the coordinator's site until the contest is finished, at which point it will probably join those from past years at the soc.sexuality.spanking resource site. Stories will be archived with the address they were mailed from.
15. All comments from the readers will be held until after the contest is complete. After they are announced on the newsgroup, they will be added to the archive.
16. Please use the entry addresses only to enter stories. Questions, comments or other correspondence should be sent to the readers panel at <ssc-readers@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us>.
17. Entries will be accepted between June 1, 1999 and August 31, 1999. Entries received after the deadline will be returned, if possible, unread.

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