Writers' House, with support of the Ministry of Culture and Sport of Georgia announces contest to publish children's magazine.

The goal of the contest is to promote publication of children's literary magazine/magazines, showing children's literary works, promoting popularization of books and literature among children by supporting periodic publications.

The contest is held within the frames of  the priority "promoting Georgian book and literature" of the program "Promoting culture" (30 10 02),  approved by the decree N 71 of the Minister of Culture issued on January 24th, 2019. 

Terms of contest

Legal entities publishing literary periodicals with at least 1 year of experience in the field are eligible to apply. 

The contest budget is Gel 50 000. The contest committee decides the number of winner projects and the amount of funding for each project. 

The presented project must meet the following criteria:

a)   children’s literary magazine should be educational, illustrated, and must have a high polygraphic quality

b)  Georgian literary works must be no less than 70 % of children’s magazine’s texts, 30 % can be allocated to translated, foreign literature

c)   the target group of the magazine must be children aged 3 to 12 years

d)  Together with contest application, the contestants must present the written consent/permission for magazine publication by the author and/or person having a copyright of the magazine.

Within the frames of the contest, the contestant has the right to present only one project application.  

Priority may be given to the contestant whose project considers partners’ financial or other type of co-participation.

 The starting date of project is April 1^st and the completion is December 15^th.

 The winner author/authors will sign the contract, that will define the obligations of parties.

 Terms for presenting the contest projects

The contestants must present the following documents:

a)   a letter addressed to the director of Writers’ House – Natalia Lomouri

b)  Project application according to attachment 1

c)   In case of financial or other type of co-participation partners, a document certifying co-participation (contract or letter)

d)  Document public registry about the organization implementing the project

e)   Technical parameters of edition and printing costs presented the publishing house and accompanied by 3 complete invoices (market research)

f)    Concept of publication presented electronically (PDF or PowerPoint on CD or DVD) maquette is also allowed.

g)  List of editorial board (CV-s)

h)  Written consent/permission for magazine publication by the author and/or person having a copyright of the magazine.

i)    Bank requisites (document issue by the bank)

The contestant has the right to change the presented application and/or present additional documentation, only before the deadline for submissions.

Contest Committee

 The contest committee will reveal the winner based on grading system, according to the following criteria:

 In case no application meets the terms of the contest, the contest committee will announce the contest as void.  

The contest committee is entitled to make decisions about:

a)   revealing the contest winner

b)  the amount of funding for each winner project

The contest committee is entitled to request the contestant to present any additional information (i.e. estimate) regarding the application, within the frames of funding defined by the committee.

The committee’s request about additional and/or specified information (attachment 2) will be sent electronically to the contestant by the email of the committee’s secretary’s work email (info@writershouse.ge).

 The contestant is obliged to send the requested information to the committee within three days.

 In case the contestants fail to present the information, or present it with errors or after the deadline, they will be removed the contest.

 The committee’s decision is reflected in committee meeting minutes which is signed by the head of the committee and all members.

 The committee’s decision is presented to the director of Writers’ House who issues a statement regarding the funding of the winners.

Before implementation of the project, the winner organizations will sign the contract.

 Contest deadline

Submission of applications starts on February 25^th 2019 and the deadline is March 14^th (15:00) at Writers’ House at the following address: Tbilisi, 13 IV. Machabeli St.

Consultation related to application presentation and other contest related issues will be held at Writers’ House on March 4^th, at 14:00, at the following address: Tbilisi, 13 Iv. Machabeli St.  

 Information about winner projects will be publicly available at the web sites of Writers’ House (www.writershouse.ge) and the Ministry of Culture (www.mes.gov.ge) no later than March 27^th, 2019

 After completion of contest, the contest application and attached documents will not be returned to the contestant by the Ministry.