About contest

Contest participants: anyone interested registered on the website of the International association VATIKAM.

Contest start date: May 1^st 2014.

Work admission end date: May 30^th 2014.

Voting end date: May 30^th 2014.

Contest result making-up date: June 5^th 2014.

Contest description: The International Association VATIKAM is inviting everyone to take part in a creative contest devoted to the anniversary of birth of the great writer, Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. This is a contest for a work based on his masterpiece novel “The Master and Margarita” which has been translated into over 35 languages of the world.

Contest participants have to present their works containing impressions of reading the novel, visions of appearances and personas of the main characters, representations of key scenes.

To take part in the contest, one has to:

• be a registered participant on the VATIKAM project website;
• have fully submitted personal data in the profile;
• create a new separate portfolio only for works after M. A. Bulgakov;
• use this portfolio to host samples of one’s works based on the novel “The Master and Margarita”;
• be sure to tick the box next to the label “Takes part in the “For Mikhail Bulgakov’s anniversary” contest”.

The contest takes for submission one portfolio from each participant that can contain two to five (2 to 5) work samples.

The winners of the first three prizes are participants whose portfolios will get the maximum amounts of votes during the whole contest period.

Votes for works by participants can be submitted by both participants themselves and by registered visitors and guests. To improve voting efficiency, a rule is in force stating that one registered user or participant can submit only one vote for one and the same portfolio.

Contest awards: The authors whose works would take the first three places based on voting results will be rewarded with their portfolios being displayed on the main page of the website. During the period from June 5^th to July 5^th 2014, their portfolios will be shown on the entrance page of the VATIKAM website. The winners will also be awarded with special first, second and third degree diplomas from the International Association VATIKAM.