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Young Poets' Awards conditions of entry

  1. By participating in the competition, participants agree to be bound by the decisions of the competition committee. All decisions on selecting the winner of the competition made by the judging panel are final.
  2. The competition committee reserves the right to disqualify any participant or winner and may refuse to award any prize to a person who is ineligible or has violated any rule, gained unfair advantage in participating in the competition, or obtained winner status using fraudulent means.
  3. The competition committee reserves the right to reject entries with objectionable content, e.g. obscenity or an undue degree of violence.
  4. The competition committee reserves the right not to award a prize should the quality of submissions not warrant.
  5. By submitting their poem, the entrants thereby grant the University of Canberra Faculty of Arts and Design the right to use, reproduce, edit, display, transmit, publish and otherwise make use of the submitted work or other information in any and all media, whether now known or hereinafter created, throughout the world and for any purpose.
  6. By submitting an entry, entrants thereby represent and warrant that the submitted work or information does not and shall not infringe on any copyright, any rights of privacy or publicity of any person, or any other right of any third party, and the entrants the right to grant any and all rights and licenses granted to the contest sponsors herein, including but not limited to, all necessary rights under copyright, free and clear of any claims or encumbrances.
  7. If you happen to submit more than one poem to the competition, only the first submission will be used within the competition.