- The Literary Competition covers work written in either Greek or English or bilingual in the following categories: poetry and short stories, by writers who are residents in Australia and over the age of 18.
- Participants are required to complete a registration form on the Greek-Australian Cultural League website (www.gacl.org.au)
- The adjudication will be separate for each language.
- Participants may submit work in one or all the categories and in one or both languages, with only one piece in each category they choose.
- Submissions with many grammatical and syntactical mistakes will be rejected.
- Works that do not comply with the limits of content, as prescribed below, will be automatically rejected and will not be forwarded to the Judging Panel.
- Content limits: Poem: 100 verses (lines); Short story: 2000 words.
- All submissions should be the original work(s) of the authors and should not have been submitted in another competition or have been previously published.
- Each work submitted should be signed by a pseudonym (nom de plume) and the same pseudonym should be used in signing all the entries submitted by the same person.
- Each competition entry should be sent only electronically (Word document attachment) to the competition email address: gaclitcomp@gmail.com. Additionally, in a separate text sent to the same email address, participants are required to forward their particulars, including the pseudonym, the full name, address, email and telephone numbers and also, the number of verses in their poems and number of words in their short stories.
- The First Prize in each category and in each language will be awarded a commemorative certificate and a monetary prize. The Second and Third Prizes and any Commendations will have a relevant award certificate and books as a gift.
- In all categories and languages, the works awarded First Prize will be published in the next issue of the periodical Antipodes.
