RULES

1. Before submitting your work and application form, contact us to request an Author Reference Number before 30 November 2009. A return email will give details of how to submit your essay(s) and illustrations electronically. (Illustrations should be separate from the body of the text.) This is the advised method for submissions. No electronic submission will be accepted without your unique reference number. Print the application form, complete and sign it, and mail or fax to the address shown. Co-authors should each submit their own form.

2. If you are unable to send your essay electronically, then mail one typed hard copy together with the application form to the address shown. Your reference number must appear at the bottom of the essay's title page. Send by Registered Post or keep a Certificate of Posting. Do not fax essays. Handwritten essays are not acceptable and will not be submitted to the judges.

3. Notes and references should be included at the end of your essay. Total number of words for any essay: 5000 - 8000 including all notes and references.

4. The application form must be signed and dated, with a declaration that the essay is the sole work of the author(s). Unsigned or incomplete application forms will not be accepted and essays will not be submitted to the judges.

5. The deadline for submissions is 30 January 2010. No entry will be considered if received after this date. No liability for postal delays will be accepted by PB Awards.

6. The judges may decide not to award a first prize if there is no outstanding essay which they consider meets the appropriate criteria for publication. The judges' decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

7. No out of pocket expenses may be claimed by authors under any circumstances.

8. No copies of essays can be returned.

9. The winners and runners-up will be notified by 20 March 2010.

10. The winning entry will be published in an issue to be decided by the journal editors of Early Popular Visual Culture. If necessary, the essay may be edited in consultation with the author.

11. A list of winners will be published on the website by 31 March.

12. Copyright remains with the authors.

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