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ENTRY RULES
The Endeavour Award
Eligibility Requirements
and Submission Process
1 - ELIGIBILITY: To be eligible for the award, a work must be an original science fiction or fantasy novel or single-author collection of stories published--either as a hardcover or paperback--for the first time in the English language during the calendar year preceding the giving of the award. The publication date shall be the official date of publication, and not the date the book first appears on the stands.
1A - Eligible books must be at least 40,000 words long, and must be generally available to the public in print. Comic books and graphic novels are not eligible.
1B - WITHDRAWAL: Authors may withdraw from consideration, without prejudice, any work published in a regional or otherwise limited edition. Any work so withdrawn shall be eligible for the award when first published in a mass market, trade, or hardcover edition. Works first published outside of the United States or Canada do not have to be formally withdrawn if not entered for the award, and if not entered shall be eligible in the year in which they are first published in the United States or Canada.
1C - Works by Award winners published in the year immediately following their win shall not be eligible for the Award.
2 - RESIDENCE OF AUTHOR FOR ELIGIBILITY: The author(s) must have been living [maintaining legal or physical residence] in the Pacific Northwest [Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, The Yukon, and British Columbia] when the publisher accepted the book, and must affirm that they wrote the majority of the book while living in the Pacific Northwest.
4 - NOMINATION OF BOOKS FOR CONSIDERATION:
4A - NOMINATION: Writers, editors, agents, and attendees of the previous year's OryCon may nominate works for consideration. If that nomination does not include five (5) copies of the nominated work for review by the judges, the Committee shall request five copies of the work from the publisher. If the publisher is unable or unwilling to provide copies, the Committee may--if it possesses the funds necessary--purchase copies for the readers.
4B - CONFIRMATION OF ELIGIBILITY: Following nomination of a book, the Committee shall contact the author(s) and confirm the book's eligibility.
