The Vienna Crime Night celebrates its first 29 years on October 20th. On this occasion, send your short crime novel to vormagazin – the best ones will be published in a book!
Dark figures, red lantern. And they're dancing a tango... Maybe you've been thinking about trying your hand at a crime novel for a while now - because crime is starting to feel like a bit of a crime lately.
Looking for exciting short crime novels
Now is the best opportunity to commit a criminal act. Because that PRE-MAGAZINE is looking for new, exciting texts together with Crime Night. And since Crime Night has found its home in Vienna's coffee houses for 20 years, it would be particularly nice if a café appeared in your short crime novel (Word document, max. 15 pages with 1.500 characters per page).
Published by echomedia book publishers
The best texts will be published in their own book by echomedia buchverlag, which will be presented at the crime night, where 5 authors will also be invited to a reading. Deadline for entries is June 20th. In September, a jury of experts will select the winning texts. Your short crime novel should take place in Vienna; a scene in a coffee house would be desirable – that could also be a suburban café or a Tschocherl. The “Café Belly Stitch” is as legendary as it is purely fictional.
The birth of crime night
Crime Night was invented in 2004 on the occasion of a reading by Europe's most famous crime writer - Donna Leon - in the Café Museum by echo medienhaus. Stars like Simon Beckett, Jussi Adler Olsen, Martin Walker, Donald Ray Pollock, Karin Slaughter, Hakan Nesser and Jason Starr followed. And of course the local crime elite also comes to Crime Night every year. Readings by Eva Rossmann, Beate Maxian, Edith Kneifl, Kurt Palm and Stefan Slupetzky are always crowd pullers. But newcomers also have the chance of greater attention during the crime night.
The VORMAGAZIN short crime fiction competition is can Opportunity to compare yourself with professionals. In previous competitions, the jury was amazed at the quality of the entries. We wish you good luck!
Submission: The text is available as a Word document redaktion@vormagazin.at to send. The deadline for entries is June 20, 2024 at 23:59 p.m. Morally questionable, offensive, discriminatory, racist, violence-glorifying or pornographic texts will not be accepted by the editorial team and will be deleted. Failure to accept texts will not give rise to any claims whatsoever on the part of the sender.
Privacy Policy: The prerequisite for participation is that the author also provides his or her personal data (full name, date of birth, address) when submitting the text and agrees to these terms and conditions of participation. All participant data will be treated confidentially and will not be passed on to third parties (Echo Medienhaus companies see. www.echo.at/about-2 are not considered third parties). The participant agrees that his full name will be published in connection with the short crime competition “Tatort Grätzl”.
Copyright and usage rights: The participant guarantees that he has all intellectual property rights to the text submitted, in particular copyrights and the resulting rights of use and exploitation, and that his text does not infringe any rights of third parties. The participant gives the current and future companies of the Echo Medienhaus (available at www.echo.at/about-2) to his text for the short crime competition “Tatort Grätzl” the non-exclusive right to exploit and use the text or extracts in any way possible, known or unknown at the time of the declaration, without any claim to compensation for the duration of the statutory copyright .
Book publication: Up to 15 texts selected by the expert jury will be published as an anthology for the competition by the book publisher echomedienhaus ges.mbh.
The legal process is excluded.
