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Selena Thomason
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 Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:47 am Post subject: Cover Art Contest 2009
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MindFlights, a magazine of science fiction and fantasy, is happy to announce our first cover art contest.
Entry is free!
The theme is open but all works must fit our guidelines.
Your submitted artwork must fit the genre of science fiction or fantasy. We need to see a clearly speculative element.
PRIZES:
All winning artwork and honorable mentions (if any) will be published online in MindFlights and receive the following cash prizes:
First: $50.00
Second: $30.00
Third: $20.00
Honorable Mentions (if any, up to 2): $10.00
TIMELINE/DEADLINE:
Entries may be submitted starting Tuesday, March 31, 2009. All entries must be received before midnight on Thursday, April 30, 2009. (Eastern US Time).
We plan to announce winners on Tuesday, May 26, 2009, and publish them online in MindFlights soon thereafter.
JUDGES:
The MindFlights editorial staff
Artwork will be judged on both quality and fit, i.e. how well the work fits MindFlights' guidelines.
Contest entries will be judged blind, meaning that the judges will evaluate each piece without knowing the identity of the submitting artists. Winners will be contacted with information regarding their placement and prize status. All non-winning entrants will be contacted within a month after the contest's closing date. There will be no critique or feedback offered for the works entered.
Any questions? Please post them in this thread of the MindFlights forums.
GUIDELINES:
Art must contain a science fiction or fantasy element. Any work without such an element will be disqualified.
Please no B&W work or sketches. Also no straight portraiture. We want work that implies a story or includes a sense of action or conflict.
We accept reproductions of any media: digital art or traditional (watercolor, pencil, oil, collage, etc), or a hybrid, as long as it's clearly of a fantasy or science fiction nature.
No member of the MindFlights staff may enter this contest, nor any family member of a MindFlights staffer.
ENTRY:
Click on the Contributor Login link to access Author-Artist Tools, and then hit the Contest Entry button.
All entries should be submitted using our online contest submissions process. Please: no names or identifiers anywhere on the entry itself.
Instructions on using our online process, including the size and type of file we prefer, can be found in our guidelines. Please read them.
By entering the contest, contestants are agreeing to allow their work to be published as cover art for a period of up to eights weeks at MindFlights.com.
THANK YOU!
The MindFlights Staff
www.mindflights.com
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Selena Thomason
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Now open for entries!
Click here and log in to enter.
Thanks.
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Someone on another board asked if the winning artists would retain the rights to their work, the short answer is YES.
The slight longer answer is...
The author retains the rights. We would use our standard contract which just asks for the right for MindFlights to publish the work, requests "Non-exclusive Electronic Publication Rights, for publication in the English language. (Internet format)" and asks that the work not be published elsewhere before it appears in MindFlights (excepting works accepted as reprints, of course) or during the time it is feautured at MindFlights (usually 1-2 months, before the work is archived.)
Other than that, all rights stay with the author.
Any other questions, just let me know. Thanks.
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Just over a week left to get your entries in!
Contest closes Thursday, April 30th.
Thanks.
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Only four days left. Get those entries in!
Top prize is $50. Deadline is Thursday, April 30th.
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Selena Thomason
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Just one day left!
Get those entries in before midnight (Eastern US) Thursday, April 30th.
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The contest is now closed. A big THANK YOU to all who entered.
We are busy looking at all the entries and plan to announce winners on Tuesday, May 26.
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Sorry, the announcement of winners has been delayed while we wait to hear back from all the winning artists. Stay tuned. Thanks.
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