E: 15/04 Win £1000 (BME) - short story effort

Monkey_Chinchilla

https://www.4thestate.co.uk/b4me

Entrants must be of black, Asian minority ethnic background.

Each submission must contain a full short story, to be no more than 8,000 words.

T&C: https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/campaign/legal/b4met-c

DynasticDux

Monkey_Chinchilla wrote: »

Entrants must be of black, Asian minority ethnic background.

Are they allowed to discriminate race ?
I am sure if it was the other way round there would be screams of it being racist

hollybearfluffpuss

Exactly what I thought

MoneyMate

Are you allowed to paint your skin ?

Blueyez

wow, boycott the Oscars because they are too white... but this sort of discrimination is ok?

DynasticDux

Wonder what the ASA would say about it - surely it is against the law

Verksies

They actually contradict themselves:

This promotion is open to all UK residents except employees of HarperCollins or Guardian News and Media Limited or their parent, subsidiaries or any affiliated companies) and their immediate families, who are not allowed to enter the competition.

Zanzib

There is general movement in literary circles to encourage BAME writers to address the apparent lack of published BAME writing.

There are writing competitions for women only, children only and so on...

bob4jane

This is clearly racist.
Unless Bristolian counts as an ethnic minority?
When was the last time someone from Bristol won an oscar?