Philosophy of the program
Starting with 2012, the National Program of Literary Debut is part of the Crystal Book Program.
Romanian culture is looking for true talents that together can form a new vanguard. These talented young people, either writers, researchers, artists or professionals in general, must be firstly promoted because it is not enough to be of value, the value must be known and recognized.
The philosophy of the programs Lumen Editorial Group and Lumen Association is based mainly on promoting young valuable people regardless of fields and especially on facilitating the efforts of young people to make themselves known. Organizing programs, such as the National Program of Literary Debut offers the opportunity for talented young people to become successful.
National Program of Literary Debut is organized by Lumen Editorial Group, composed of Lumen Publishing House, Crystal Publishing House and Eurostar Publishing House, in partnership with Lumen Association.
The period of selection of works:
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May
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December.
Individuals expected to participate are poets, prose-writers and essayist aged up to 35 years old, who did not release any individual volumes.
Volume categories admitted to selection: individual volume of short prose, novels, memoirs, diary, essays, biographies (for authors who did not have a previous debut in volume).
Promoting young creators, regardless of the domain in which they operate, is a long-term strategy of Lumen Association, which has a series of cultural programs, including editorial such as this one. Lumen Association will subsidize the release of the volumes, covering between 20% and 100% of editorial costs.
The purpose: The National Program of Literary Debut aims at promoting potentially successful young people in the following domains: short prose, novels, memoirs, diary, essays, biographies, plays (for authors who did not have a previous volume debut).
Objectives: Lumen Publishing House seeks to identify and promote young talented writers in order to start a long-term editorial collaboration. Furthermore, young writers from the Moldavian Republic and Romanian communities from abroad are also expected to participate at this selection.
Conditions for participation: The application for this program will include a series of mandatory elements which you will find here.
Lack of any of the information mentioned above leads to stagnation of the editorial analysis by reviewers until the full existence of the required information. Our specialists (writers and literary critics) will assess the papers sent for publishing and they will send to all authors the response in each period mentioned for the development of sessions. The response will include either acceptance or rejection for publishing the debut volume, the editorial terms and conditions and also the percentage of sponsorship for the volume.
Within the National Program of Literary Debut, Lumen Editorial Group will also publish an anthology of texts proposed by participants to the contest. By participating to the contest, authors express their agreeement for publishing some of their texts or fragments from texts within this anthology. Authors must take into consideration that Lumen Publishing House takes no obligation to make the anthology or to publish papers from all participants regardless of literary quality of the papers.
In case of an affirmative answer regarding the publishing of the volume, you will have to go through the following steps:
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Signing the editorial contract;
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Framing the volume;
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Making the paging;
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Making the cover;
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Giving ISBN and CIP;
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Distribution of the volume within Lumen Publishing House and the partner publishings;
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Promoting the book through the editorial catalogue, on the site and virtual library of the Lumen Publishing House;
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Book releases (depending on the contract with the author);
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Sending the book offer to all university and county libraries in our country;
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Sending the volume to media organizations for promotion, if the contract stipulates this.
Benefits for authors
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Literary recognition;
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Increase of public awareness;
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Achievement and increase of personal brand;
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Increase of self-esteem.
Rules of participation
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Publishing is made only based on an editorial contract, which is to be sent to selected authors only.
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Co-financing given by Lumen Publishing House or its partners can be 100%, but it varies from one paper to another, depending on the estimation of the market impact of the paper, and not depending on the artistic quality of the text.
Lumen Publishing House
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