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BY ENTERING OR OTHERWISE PARTICIPATING IN THIS WRITING CONTEST, ALL ENTRANTS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS AGREE TO ABIDE BY THESE OFFICIAL WRITING CONTEST RULES, WHICH ARE FINAL AND BINDING ON ALL MATTERS PERTAINING TO THIS CONTEST.

5. Novel Submission Rules. Any novel you submit through this writing contest must comply with the following rules:

• ・Original novel and/or contest entries that have already participated in the MAL x Honeyfeed Writing Contest held during 2021 can not be entered to this contest as an original or a [Short] entry.
• ・Novels must be written in English only. Novels written in other languages will not be considered and will be removed from the Honeyfeed site.
• ・Novels must follow a prompt board (see below).
• ・Completed novels must contain a minimum 25,000 words and may contain up to a maximum of 75,000 words.
• ・Novels must be set to "Completed" on the Honeyfeed site before the entry period ends. This means your story must come to a conclusion before September 1, 2022.
• ・Note that changing the status of the novel or editing the novel to add content after September 1, 2022 will result in disqualification.
• ・No fanfics, collaborations, plagiarism, stolen or copyrighted content is allowed to be submitted as an entry. This includes both text and images related to your entry. Any novel you submit must be entirely your own original work created for this contest and posted only to Honeyfeed for the duration of the contest. This applies to [Short] entries as well as the novel they originated from.
• ・Novels must be suitable for ages 17+ and be set to the "All audience" setting in Honeyfeed. No gore, heavy ecchi or soft porn is allowed. Your novel can not contain minors, or characters that look like/reference minors or under the age of 18 in erotic situations.
• ・Original novels that are already licensed by a literary agency and/or publisher, or are being self-published and sold on Amazon and other similar sites, are not eligible to participate in the contest.
• ・Users are not allowed to use MAL / HF sites or MAL / HF social media as a way to continuously persuade other users to read, like, comment or vote for their novel or any other user's novel (shilling, spamming). Self promoting on your own profile is allowed.
• ・Please also review the Judging Criteria as well.

Contest Prompt Boards: Writing prompt boards will act as public voting categories, so your novel must follow one of the three prompt boards below. The prompt board’s keywords cannot be mixed and matched across boards. After you've chosen an initial prompt board, you can not change prompt boards later, it may result in disqualification. Please see the prompt boards for this contest:

School Prompt Board
Core memories	Bitter-sweet	First time	Redo	Graduation
Best moments	New beginnings	Ideal school life	Cherished days	Unforgettable friendships
Discovering myself	Reunion	Fond memories	Teenage	Influential people
Best years of my life	Highschool	My group	I wouldn’t have imagined I’d miss that	Remembering dearly

Rom-Com Prompt Board
Crazily in love	Most popular couple	The little things you do	Healthy relationships	Not without you
Great chemistry	Adorably annoying	Ideal partner	Expectations v.s reality	Leap of faith
They won’t believe how we met	Wholesome	They wish they had what we do	My quirky lover	Comforting
One in a 7.7 billion	Partners in crime	Only with you	Our best adventures	Troublemakers

Cyberpunk Prompt Board
High-tech	Lack of resources	Dehumanization	Cyborg	Scarcity
Body hacking	Corporate wars	Antihero	Neo Tokyo	Social order disruption
Broken down society	Dystopian future	Countercultural	Surreal landscape	Suburban chaos
High commoditization	Metropolis	Global connection	Augmented reality	Reimagination of cultures

For any novel submission, you must not submit any content that contains any elements that violate a third party’s copyrights, trademark rights, privacy rights or any other rights. Your novel submission and any other content you submit must comply with MAL’s Terms of Use regarding user content and Honeyfeed’s Terms of Service.

By submitting any novel or other content as part of this contest, you represent, warrant and agree that: (a) you are in compliance with these Official Writing Contest Rules and with MAL’s Terms of Use and Honeyfeed’s Terms of Service; (b) your novel(s) and any other content does not infringe or violate any third party rights; and (c) the novel(s) and any other content does not violate any law.

6. Contest Prizes. Prizes are available for participants who place first on each contest prompt board. 3 Winners total for this contest. The prizes that are available to be won for this contest are the following:

Prize item description:	Estimated value:	No. of items available to win:	Other restrictions:
Winning prize for Rom-com prompt board	$3,000	1	N/A
Winning prize for School prompt board	$3,000	1	N/A
Winning prize for Cyberpunk prompt board	$3,000	1	N/A

The three winning novels may also be selected for possible light novel or manga adaptation and publication in Japan by the Japanese publisher, Kodansha. Kodansha will receive a Japanese translation of the three winning stories from this contest and may, in its sole discretion, decide to adapt and publish one or more of the winning stories. If your novel is selected for adaptation and publication, additional agreement(s) will be required in connection with the adaptation and publication. However, there is no guarantee that a winning novel will be selected for publication, and it is possible that none of them will be selected.

To receive a prize, you may also be required to provide an affidavit of eligibility.

7. Judging Criteria, Selection of Winners and Odds of Winning.Sponsors will review the novel entries for this contest and, once the entry period ends, the novel entries will be narrowed down to a total of 12 (4 from each prompt board discussed above) before moving on to the public voting phase. To narrow the novel entries down to a total of 12, the judges will use the following criteria:

Post frequency:

• • Novel chapters are not posted all at once.
• • Novel is updated once or more weekly.

Writing & Storytelling:

• • Novel has an appealing synopsis.
• • Novel story progresses at a good pace.
• • Chapters are not too long.
• • Novel has good English grammar.
• • Novel has interesting characters and character development.
• • Novel has good world-building.

Public Engagement:

• • Novel has a cover image.
• • Public reacts well to the novel. (Positive comments, returning comments.)
• • Author replies to comments in a timely manner.
• • Author self-promotes.
• • Author posts chapter release schedule.
• • Author has their contest novel featured on their Honeyfeed profile.

After the novel entries are narrowed down to 12, the public voting phase will begin as follows:

Public voting for finals (November 3 to November 30, 2022): Voting period will include 4 novels of each prompt board. During this period, the 12 judge-selected novels in the prompt boards will be posted to a special voting page inside the MyAnimeList Android and iOS apps. Votes will only be collected using the app.

The winners will be announced on December 12, 2022.

Odds of Winning: The odds of your novel being selected and included with the 12 novels selected by the judges are dependent upon the number of eligible submissions received by Sponsors, the above-referenced criteria and the judges’ opinions. During the voting phase, a number of people assigned as ‘Jury’ will review and rate the overall content of your completed submission. The odds of your novel being selected in the public voting phase depends on the number of votes received in this phase as well as the review and feedback of the Jury.

Sponsors may communicate with potential winners at the email address registered with the potential winners’ MyAnimeList or Honeyfeed accounts with further information and any additional requirements to accept the prizes. If a potential winner cannot be contacted within 72 hours, fails to respond to any attempted contact, is in any way not in compliance with these Official Writing Contest Rules, or declines to, does not or cannot accept the prize to be awarded, such potential winner will be disqualified and his/her entry and submission will be declared null and void.

8. Release. By entering this writing contest, you release Sponsors and their affiliates, employees, officers, directors, managers and agents from any liability whatsoever, and waive any and all causes of action, related to any claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with this contest or transmission, failed transmission or acceptance of any prize (including, without limitation, claims, costs, injuries, losses and damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation or portrayal in a false light, whether intentional or unintentional), whether under a theory of contract, tort (including negligence), warranty or any other theory.

9. Sponsors’ Reservation of Rights. Sponsors reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to terminate, cancel, suspend and/or revise the contest for any or no reason. Sponsors reserve the right in their sole discretion to disqualify any individual in violation of these Official Writing Contest Rules or if Sponsors discover such individual to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the contest or acting in an unlawful or disruptive manner. Sponsors' failure to enforce any term or provision of these Official Writing Contest Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that term or provision.

10. Privacy. Information collected from you in connection with this contest will be used by Sponsors for their administration of the contest, including to verify your eligibility and notify potential winners and to fulfill prizes. In addition, Sponsors may use information collected about you to send you offers or information from us about MAL’s or Honeyfeed’s products and services, or about the products and services of our affiliates and business partners. If you do not wish to receive such offers and information, you may opt-out at any time by following the instructions at the bottom of any promotional email you receive or by following other opt-out instructions provided in the communication. Information collected is otherwise subject to and may be used and shared by Sponsors in accordance with MyAnimeList's Privacy Policy at https://myanimelist.net/about/privacy_policy, Honeyfeed’s Privacy Policy at https://www.honeyfeed.fm/privacy, and applicable law.

11. Contact Information. Please direct any questions or comments regarding the writing contest to Customer Support.