GENERAL COMPETITION GUIDELINES, PROCEDURES, AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Guidelines
Prizes will be awarded to deserving women on an objective and non-discriminatory basis. Applications must be completed fully and will be considered in their entirety. Applicants are encouraged to make multiple submissions in the same or different categories.
Winners and finalists will be announced on the website and in a newsletter bulletin to e-newsletter subscribers. Please sign up for our e-newsletter, or update your email address on our list in order to be assured notification of prize winners and finalists.
Orlando Prize winners in all four categories will be notified by phone prior to the announcement date. Winners will be offered a chance to edit the submission prior to website publication.
In order to facilitate the blind judging process, please remove all identifying information from the document before inserting in the text field.
Please number your document’s pages before copying and pasting into the text field provided on the paperless form.
Eligibility
The
Orlando Prizes are limited to women writers who are U.S. Citizens. Because the prize is publication on the AROHO website,
any woman writer is eligible for the eMessage Competition.
Procedures and Ethical Considerations
The competitions are open to women writers with the following exceptions:
- Employees, interns, or contractors of AROHO;
- Relatives of employees or members of the board of directors;
- 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 submission, or where, for whatever reason, selecting a particular submission might have the appearance of impropriety.
To be certain that every finalist receives the fairest evaluation, all submissions will be provided to the judges without any identifying material.
Bios, acknowledgments, and other identifying material will be removed from judged submissions until the conclusion of the competition.
AROHO will not use students or interns as readers at any stage of its competitions.
AROHO is committed to maintaining the utmost integrity of our awards. Our policy is that judges will recuse themselves from considering any submission from an applicant to whom they are related by blood, love, or money.
