1. Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2012 is organised by PPP Company Limited (‘P3’): 20^th Floor Carfield Commercial Building, 77 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong.  P3 has the right to alter the Competition and Competition Rules or make exceptions without any prior notice.
2. Only enrolled students within the registered school are allowed to participate in Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2012. No individual entries are allowed.
3. No entry fee is required, and all rights in the story belong to the property of the author.
4. P3 reserves the right to disqualify any entry for any reason, but in particular if any of the Competition Rules have been broken or if the material supplied is offensive or illegal.
5. P3 will not be responsible for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, loss, defect, delay, theft, alteration or any other problem arising in the submission of entries.
6. P3 retains the rights to any publicity or marketing activity, which they deem necessary to promote either the Competition or its Entrants, their Entries, the Competition Sponsors and P3 themselves. Entrants agree to participate in any reasonable request by P3 to fulfill marketing obligations relating to the Competition and their own Entry.
7. P3 will not distribute any material relating to the Entries or the Entrants themselves other than to P3’s judging panels and readers, their own staff and to the Media set out in clause 5.
8. No personal data relating to the Entrants will be disclosed to any third party without the express permission of the Entrants.
9. Only 10 entries are allowed per division. If the entries exceed that we will take the top 10 entries on the entry form.
10. Each division can submit up to only 10 literary entries. We require electronic submissions for literary works to be uploaded on to our online database.  Each school must register themselves on or before October 31^st, 2011 in order to compete (http://www.ppp.com.hk/ojs). Electronic submissions are due by 6pm (GMT +8) on February 10^th, 2012. Anything received after this date will not be considered. Every page of literary work must carry the Student’s Group Category, Title and Page Number in the header, but the author’s name MUST be deleted to facilitate fair judging.
11. Each primary division is allowed to have maximum of 5 cover art entries. Each submission must include a cover sheet. Please note: if you are submitting in the cover art category, your entry MUST be postmarked byFebruary 10^th, 2012. Please post us at: Hong Kong Young Writers Awards 2012, PPP Company Limited, 20^th Floor Carfield Commercial Building, 77 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong. We must receive the hard copy submissions of the Cover Art byFebruary 15^th, 2012. Anything received after this date will not be considered.  The Cover Art must not carry the Author’s Name, Student’s Group Category, Title and Page Number.
12. Literary work must be submitted with 1” margins all around, double-spaced, numbered pages and typed in 12 point Arial or Times New Roman font. Cover Art work must be submitted on 297mm x 420mm (A3) paper, portrait orientation.
13. Once the electronic submissions have been uploaded, please send one email to hkywa2012@ppp.com.hk by 6pm (GMT +8) on February 10^th, 2012 to notify us and attach a completed submission form with the email. This will ensure that we have received all your entries on our database.  If your school is submitting both cover art and literary entries, please send all the information in one notification email with the completed entry form.
14. Word limits must be within the specified number of words. Otherwise, entries will be disqualified and P3 will not be responsible for notifying the school if this happens.
15. No more than one story can be accepted by each student in each participating school.  Co-authored papers will not be accepted except in the Cover Art work category.
16. Only original and non published work may be submitted and by entering the competition you are confirming that to the best of your knowledge the work is exclusively that of the individual it has been attributed to.  No parental involvement is allowed. In the case of the Cover Art work, you are confirming that the work is that of the named individuals. Plagiarism – use of third party works – without written permission from the author will result in disqualification of the entrant and possibly the school.
17. Entries submitted will not be returned to the author unless requested by the school to P3 in writing to the following email address: hkywa2012@ppp.com.hk.
18. The competition will be judged by a panel of judges.  The judges may withhold some or all of the awards when the submissions are not of notable quality. In the event of a tie, the award will be shared.  The judge’s decisions will be final.
19. P3 reserves the right to lightly edit the entries included in the anthology.

If you have any questions or queries, please contact us at hkywa2012@ppp.com.hk.