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RULES:

1. Must be over 18 years of age.
2. Must be a resident of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota or Wisconsin (Contest States).  Proof of residency must be presented upon request (utility bill, bank statement, pay stub, report card or tuition invoice from Midwestern school).   Military personnel and their immediate family members assigned to a base outside of the contest states may provide a driver’s license as proof of residency in one of those states.
3. In case of two or more writers, one must reside in the Midwest.
4. Scripts from all genres accepted.
5. Multiple entries are accepted. If the Grand prize winning script is written by a team of two writers, both members of the team will receive the prize. As a result, airfare will not be provided to any guest of the winners. If the winning script is writing by by a team of more than two writiers, only two writers will recieve the prize. The members of the the team shall deterimne which two writers will receive the prize.
6. Submissions must be the original work of the entrant(s) and may not be based, in whole or in part, on any other fiction or nonfiction material, published or unpublished, produced or unproduced except for those adaptations of works in the public domain, which are permissible.
7. All screenplays must either be registered with the WGA or copyrighted by the Library of Congress.
8. The screenplay must not have been previously optioned, sold, or produced.
9. Absolutely no refunds.
10. All screenplays must be in English.
11. Screenplays, once submitted, will not be returned.
12. Entrants retain all rights to their work.
13. Once a draft is submitted, that is the official draft. NO substitutions will be accepted.
14. Writer understands and accepts without reservation that he/she is an independent contractor and CSN is not responsible for withholding any taxes or payments to any government agency, at any level, be it state, local or federal.
15. All screenplays must fall between 90 and 120 pages.
16. Winners of this competition grant Chicago Screenwriters Network the right to use their likeness and names for the purpose of publicity and promotions with no additional compensation. We reserve the right to promote any and all progress, development and success of the entered scripts.
17. Agents, managers and producers are under no obligation to read, represent, option or purchase any screenplay submitted to them.
18. Attempting to contact or influence any Chicago Screenwriters Network board members, readers or other contest volunteers about your entered screenplay will result in immediate disqualification.
19. All entrants understand and agree that there are a diverse amount of story contexts and ideas, and in no way is The Chicago Screenwriters Network responsible not now or in the future of borrowing or stealing from an idea, copy written concept, or storyline from a script entry.