SFINCS

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Treat all people with respect and dignity and challenge any form of harassment, discrimination, intimidation, exploitation or abuse.

SFINCS is open to everyone regardless of gender, sexuality, religion or race. We acknowledge that there will be differences in approach, belief and opinion. However, if someone uses them to negatively target another person or person(s), whether within competition spaces or across social media and other avenues of communication then this may be grounds for disqualification from the current contest, removal from judging teams and the Discord in order to protect the safety of all those within the competition and the wider community and the integrity of the competition. In the event of this happening, the individual(s) would not be eligible to re-enter the competition in future rounds. The organisers have the right to remove a participant from the competition at any time if deemed necessary

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Entrants

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This applies to those entering in the current SFINCs as well as those who have remained within the discord server.

• Abide by the above code of conduct.

• Follow the terms of eligibility for entering the competition. The organisers check all entries to ensure compliance.

• Treat other authors and the judges in the competition with respect and dignity.

• Authors are not to contact judges about their entries, or ask for reviews to be altered in anyway, unless said review is found to violate the Code of Conduct.

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Judges

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• Any conflict of interest, i.e. friendship with the author, being a beta reader etc, must be passed on to the Team Lead or Organisers as soon as books are allocated. Team Leads and Organisers will then determine whether the book will be reallocated or stay within the original team, in which case the team member with conflict of interest will abstain from judging it. Having read a book prior to the competition is not considered a conflict of interest, but we still ask the judges to apply the same consideration of conflicts of interest to their original reading of the entry.

• If there are any doubts in the ability to judge fairly based on things such as a difference of beliefs, the topic of the novella, the content of the novella, etc. please bring this to the team leader or organisers’ attentions so they have the ability to ask others in the team to read the novella. In the event there are not enough judges within the team to provide a score due to circumstances such as these, team leaders should notify the organisers and they will allocate additional judging from other teams.