2027 Founding Cycle
Eligibility
The 2027 Founding Cycle is international, free to enter and open to qualifying publicly released literary works created through Symbiotic Authorship.
At a glance.
- You are 18 or older on the date of submission.
- The work entered genuine public circulation between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2026 inclusive.
- The work falls within the Symbiotic Authorship framework.
- You can provide a complete English review version.
- You have sufficient rights, permissions and authority to enter it.
- You have not exceeded the two-work-per-entrant cycle limit.
International means international.
Nationality, citizenship, residence, publisher territory and geographic origin do not determine literary eligibility, subject only to any unavoidable mandatory legal restriction that actually applies.
Already published — not an unpublished manuscript
The work must already have reached a real public audience through a publicly accessible or independently verifiable route. Independent and traditional publication may both qualify.
Translation
The original may be in another language. The complete English version submitted for the Founding Cycle is the literary object judged.