2024-01-11 22:10:00
The bases of this year’s “UPC – Miquel Barceló Award” have been announced.
1.Unpublished stories that can be eligible for the prize
be framed within the genre of science fiction.
2. The works, which may be written in Catalan, Spanish,
English or French, they must be typed
double space and have an approximate extension of between
70 and 115 pages of 30 lines of 70 characters (between
150,000 and 240,000 characters).
3. The works must be submitted to the Electronic Office
from the UPC (in a pdf file.
4. The deadline for submitting the originals of the edition
of 2024 will end on April 1, 2024. The decision
of the jury, which will be unappealable, will be made public before
end the year 2024.
5. The submission of the work to the competition by the author
or author will assume that it guarantees its authorship and originality.
The UPC will be totally exempt from any responsibility
in case of breach of said guarantee.
The author will be responsible for the registration of the
work in the Registry of Intellectual Property and the effects
that may arise from not making said registration.
6. The submission of the work to the competition by the author
or author will assume that she consents to its disclosure in
in the event that it is awarded.
7. The jury will be made up mostly of people
linked to the UPC, all of them related to the world
of literature and science fiction.
8. The jury will award a prize of 2,000 euros and, if
considers appropriate, a special honorable mention.
Optionally, a mention may also be granted
honorary for the best narration presented by a member
from the UPC. The price could be declared desert.
In addition, the prize will consist of the editing and publication
of the winning work in digital and paper format.
The edition will be done jointly between the University
Politècnica de Catalunya and the Apache Libros publishing house, in
its Science Fiction Library collection in Spanish.
Acceptance of the prize will mean that the author
of the winning work will be transferred exclusively to the UPC
for all countries, in Catalan, Spanish, English
and French, for a period of four years from the delivery
of the prize, all exploitation rights
in paper and digital format of this work, including the
rights of reproduction, distribution, communication
public and transformation.
The authors will have the obligation to sign the
documents that are necessary to formalize the transfer
of exploitation rights.
9. The winner and also the person holding the
any exploitation rights over the winning work
undertake to include in each of the communications
public that a mention of it be made
obtaining the UPC Miquel Science Fiction Prize
Barceló 2024 convened by the UPC Social Council.
10. Participation in the UPC Science Fiction Prize
Miquel Barceló 2024 will mean the acceptance of these
bases.
For more information, you can consult
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