2018 Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition Regulations

Eligibility & Requirements
Eligibility 
1) To compete, illustrators must be between 16 and 39 years of age (born between 1 January 1979 and 31 December 2002).
2) Regardless of nationality, professional illustrators, art school students, and other amateur illustration enthusiasts can enter the competition free of charge. Entries can be made as an individual, school, association or other third-party organisation.

Entry requirements
1) There are no limits to the entry’s theme and content provided that is it suitable for children’s book illustration. The competition accepts work done by hand, digitally, or using a mix of media. 
2) To enter the competition, the participant must submit a series of five pieces of illustrations under the same theme. The participant can submit only one series to the competition every year. The artworks must be accompanied by an explanatory text in English (up to 800 signs) that describes their work and the tools/techniques used for the illustrations.  
3) Illustrations submitted for the competition can be published or unpublished. If published, the illustrations must not have been published before 1 January 2016.
4) Illustrations previously submitted to the Golden Pinwheel are not eligible for re-entry. 

Submission Procedure
The only official channel for registration and submission is the CCBF’s website <www.ccbookfair.com>. Please fill in the registration form and submit the electronic version of your work online. All hand-drawn illustrations must be scanned in high-definition. 
1) Format: JPG or PNG 
2) Size: less than 20MB
3) Resolution: 300 DPI or above 
4) For published work, the participant must also provide the ISBN number of the publication in which the illustration was included, the publication date and the name of the publisher. 

Submission Deadline 
24:00, 31 July 2018 (GMT+8)

Competition Schedule
Entry submission: 22 May – 31 July 2018 
Initial selection: 1 August – 21 August 2018
Shortlist announcement: 13 September 2018
Awards announcement: 9 November 2018 (the opening day of the CCBF)