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Award
Guidelines, Procedures and Ethical Considerations.
Applicable to all literary awards given by Red Hen Press.
Guidelines
Eligibility: The award is open to all writers with the following exceptions:
A) Authors who
have had a full length work published, or a full length work currently
under consideration by Red Hen Press;
B) Employees, interns, or contractors of Red Hen Press;
C) Relatives of employees or members of the executive board of directors;
D) Relatives or individuals having a personal or professional relationship
with any of the final judges where they have taken any part whatsoever
in shaping the manuscript, or where, for whatever reason, selecting
a particular manuscript might have the appearance of impropriety.
Procedures and Ethical Considerations
To be certain that every manuscript finalist receives the fairest evaluation, all manuscripts shall be submitted to the judges without any identifying material.
Bios, acknowledgments, and other identifying material shall be removed from judged manuscripts until the conclusion of the competition.
Red Hen Press shall not use students or interns as readers at any stage of its competitions.
Red Hen Press is committed to maintaining the utmost integrity of our awards. Judges shall recuse themselves from considering any manuscript where they recognize the work. In the event of recusal, a manuscript score previously assigned by the managing editor of the press will be substituted.