Stuff you must agree to before you make your bid for that 20 grand.

Rules

• Your story must be your own, original, unaided work.
• Your story must be in English. (Writers in other Indian languages, hang on a bit, please? There’s more coming up soon.)
• Word limit: Not more than 500 words, including the title, if you choose to use one.
• Your story must not have been published anywhere, in print or online. (We interpret “published” to mean that there was some form of editorial or jury selection and/or payment involved. So work that appeared on a personal blog or unmoderated forum is okay. Something entered for a contest, which could have won you a prize somewhere, is not a valid entry. Something that you have submitted to an editor that was selected to appear in print or online is “published,” whether you got paid for it or not, and therefore is not allowed.)
• Multiple entries are okay. Do not duplicate entries, however. We will delete all copies of your entry from the system if you flood it.
• There is no entry fee, and you don’t have to buy anything to enter.

Terms and conditions

• These terms apply to the Quick Tales contest by Caferati Creative Pvt Ltd (henceforth referred to as “the organiser”) and supported by LiveJournal Inc. You agree to abide by these terms in their entirety. If you do not agree to any of these terms and conditions, you should not use this service. The organisers reserve the right to modify these terms and conditions at any time.
• You declare that you are a resident of India and a LiveJournal user, as specified under “Eligibility.”
• You agree that you are legally capable of entering the Quick Tales Contest and agree to the Terms and Condtions, and that you are competent (i.e. you are of sufficient age and mental capacity) and eligible to enter into a legally binding agreement or your parents have consented to your entry of the Contest and use of this service, with its rules and terms and conditions.
• By submitting your story, you declare that the it is your own, original work, that it contains no matter which is defamatory or is otherwise unlawful in India, or which invades individual privacy or infringes any proprietary right or any statutory copyright; and you agree to indemnify and hold the organisers harmless against any claim to the contrary.
• You agree that while you retain ownership of your story, but, by submitting an entry to the contest, you give LiveJournal and its marketing partners Scenario Consulting and Caferati Creative, permission to use your entry, with acknowledgement, but with no payment to you, in their websites, as part of Press Releases (from where they may be reproduced by media organisations), and in a possible special compilation book. Should your entry be selected for publication in this special compilation, you give the editors and publishers of the compilation the right to edit your story as they see fit.
• Should you be declared a prize winner, you will be contacted solely through your LiveJournal username, so that the organisers can get your mailing address. You therefore agree that you will respond to this notification within 10 days, and should you fail to do so, (1) the organisers have the right to award the prize to the next highest scoring entry, and (2) you forfeit all claims to the prize.
• You agree that the decisions of the screening jury and the contest judges are final and binding, and no correspondence will be entertained regarding these decisions.