1. Registration: All entrants must be REGISTERED at www.bigbeautifulwellness.com. Contest is open to women only, of any age.
2. Poems: Poems must be titled and previously unpublished. Poems are not to exceed 30 lines in length, including the title. Poems that are too long will not be considered by the judges. There is no limit to the number of poems you may submit.
3. Poem TOPIC: All poems should reflect an aspect of living a PLUS SIZE life. The intention is for the work to be inspirational but all submissions will be considered.
4. Entry identification: Your name, email address and telephone number must be submitted with your poem.
5. Deadline: Submissions must be received by Midnight, April 30, 2011.
6. Fees: There are no entry fees, no subsidy payments, and no purchases of any kind required to enter and win the poetry contest.
7. Edits: www.bigbeautifulwellness.com reserves the right to edit your poetry and remove any editing errors
8. Prizes: Cash prizes will be given to the First, Second, and Third place winners. These winners are decided at the discretion of the judge(s). Decision of the judge(s) is final.
The top 25 submissions (as selected by Judge(s)) will be anonymously reviewed by participants attending the Big Beautiful Wellness™ Yoga Retreat (May 27 – 29, 2011) and the top 3 poems selections will be made by those attendees.
All those chosen by the judge(s) will receive email notification by Midnight, June 1, 2011.
* First Prize: $75.00
* Second Prize: $50.00
* Third Prize: $25.00
(all prizes have been Donated to Big Beautiful Wellness™ )
9. Rights: OWNERSHIP AND USE OF WINNING POEMS: All entrants retain the copyright rights that they have in the poems they submit, but all entrants, by participating in this Contest and submitting poems, grant Big Beautiful Wellness™ and any of Big Beautiful Wellness™ successors and assigns the perpetual and irrevocable right, license, and ability to use and publish all submitted poems (in the format submitted or in an altered format and in complete form or in excerpted form) on Big Beautiful Wellness™ websites, on other websites, and in other media, for any purpose. Entrants’ opportunity to submit their poems and participate in this Contest constitutes full consideration for the foregoing grant. The foregoing grant requires no further consideration and is not dependent on entrants’ winning any prizes. Big Beautiful Wellness™ can publish or decline to publish, or use or decline to use, any submitted poems in Big Beautiful Wellness™ sole discretion.
10. General Conditions: All online submission forms become the sole property of Big Beautiful Wellness™ and will not be acknowledged or returned. All entries and submissions are subject to verification. Big Beautiful Wellness™ assumes no responsibility for entries or submissions that are lost, late, misdirected, stolen, illegible, undelivered, garbled, damaged, mutilated, incomplete, reproduced mechanically, forged, falsified, altered, or tampered with (and any such entries or submissions are ineligible), or for any computer, online, telephone, or technical malfunctions that may occur. Big Beautiful Wellness™ assumes no responsibility for any technical problems in connection with the transmission or receipt of entries, including faulty electronic data transmission, traffic congestion on the Internet or on websites, hardware or software error, equipment failure or malfunction, or other online communications problems.
This Contest is subject to all applicable laws and regulations, but is governed by the substantive law of the Province of Ontario. Void wherever prohibited or restricted by law.
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