China Net Beijing, April 26th The call for papers for the first “Xinxing International Reasoning Literature Award” organized by Xinxing Publishing House has now officially started. The theme of this year’s “New Star International Reasoning Literature Award” is: Searching for the truth through creation.
From now until 2022, the Organizing Committee will accept submissions. The submissions are detective and inferential novels, which are divided into two categories: novels and short stories. The two categories will be awarded the first prize, and a total of outstanding ones will be selected. Three winners will be awarded, and the winning authors will receive corresponding writing support. The final award results will be announced in 2023. Please refer to the official Weibo, WeChat public account, Douban and other accounts of Xinxing Publishing House for details of awards and contributions.
It is reported that Midnight Library, a detective novel publishing platform under Nova Publishing House, was established in 2006. In the past 16 years, Midnight Library has been committed to systematically sorting out and recommending the 180-year history of detective novels, and selecting the world for readers. The purest, most classic and most intelligent work in the history of detective fiction. Since 2016, Midnight Library has launched the “Original Series”, which aims to cultivate potential detective novel authors in China. So far, Midnight Library has published more than 700 detective novels.
In the past ten years, Chinese readers have been exposed to nearly two hundred years of excellent mystery novels; more and more original novels have emerged in China, and the elements of “reasoning” in film, television and game works have become more and more abundant, and the form and the Carriers are also increasingly diverse. Against such a booming background, the “New Star International Reasoning Literature Award” will collect inference literature works around the world, hold a reasoning literature exchange forum, and invite well-known detective novel writers and researchers at home and abroad to serve as judges and forum guests to enhance communication. Mutual learning, with the help of the selection of this award to enrich and diversify the exchanges in the field of detective literature.
The first “Rising Star International Reasoning Literature Award” award setting:
1. First prize for novels, 1 winner, 100,000 yuan in prize money;
2. The first prize for short stories, 1 winner, with a bonus of RMB 50,000;
3. Excellence Award, 3 winners, each with a bonus of RMB 10,000.
Selection criteria:
1. Manuscripts submitted can be created in all languages;
2. Satisfy the number of words (long stories: more than 80,000 words, short stories: 20,000-80,000 words);
3. Manuscripts submitted must be unpublished works that have not been published on any other platform;
4. The content of the submission is not limited, there is no proposition, and it must be a novel regarding detective reasoning;
5. All submitted works must be original by the contributors. If there is plagiarism, the qualification will be permanently disqualified;
6. The submitted content must not contain content that violates national laws and regulations, and violates social morals and good customs.
Submission time:
April 26, 2022 – October 15, 2022
Submission email:
newstar_mystery@qq.com
Submission rules:
1. Please indicate in the subject of the email the literature award submission + the title of the work + the long/medium and short stories;
[标题举例：文学奖投稿+《二环僵尸》+中短篇]
2. The format of the submission file must be a Word document.
illustrate:
1. After the results of the primary selection are announced (expected in December 2022), the authors of works that have not entered the selection can submit their works separately.
2. After the results of the award are announced (expected in 2023), the authors of the non-awarded works can submit their papers separately, and Xinxing Publishing House has the priority to publish the non-awarded works.
3. The copyright and adjacent copyright rights of the award-winning works, except the authorship right, belong to Xinxing Publishing House.
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