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Some Last Minute Nicholl Fellowships Entry Suggestions

-- Postmarked by May 1 means that you can place your entry package in the mail on May 1.

-- "Mail" includes the postal service, UPS, Federal Express or any other delivery service. Just be certain that your package is dated. If the service doesn't date packages, then your entry better arrive in a timely fashion or it will be disqualified. A Fed Ex overnight arriving on May 15 but "dated" May 1 will not be accepted.

-- If you are going to use Fed Ex, UPS, etc., feel free to use a slower, cheaper delivery -- UPS ground, the slowest Fed Ex choice rather than the more expensive Next Day.

-- If you want to hear more quickly that we have received your entry, attach a self-addressed, stamped postcard and we'll mail it back. Or you could certify your package, though I've noticed that the USPS and others are not always as careful as they should be with those little cards. Otherwise, you'll hear from us via letter in June that we've received your entry. And then near August 1 as to whether you've advanced.

-- Make sure that your name, address, phone number, email address doesn't appear anywhere on your script. Not on the cover, not on the title page, not on interior pages, not on the last page, not on the back side of any pages.

-- Using a card stock cover helps but isn't required. If your script is good enough to be read three times in the first round, wear and tear may be substantial. A decent cover lessens the chance of damage.

-- Do use decent brads. Depending on the thickness of your script, Acco #5 or #6 (1.25" & 1.5") brass metal fasteners are the best. Thin, wimpy brads tend to fall out of scripts while in use. The long, silver looping Acco metal fasteners that accompany the hard Acco covers are also disliked by readers, as they too tend to fall apart under the pressure of a read.

-- Chicago screws are acceptable. Just don't screw them so tight that it becomes near impossible to take them apart. Remember: good scripts need to be copied. Bad ones do not.

-- Do not send your script unbound and/or on plain paper. Script submissions should be on three-hole paper and bound.

-- Foreign entrants may submit on A-4 paper. Just be certain that your margins conform to US 8.5" x 11" standards, so that your script may be copied if it advances. If you maintain a 1.5" to 2.0" bottom margin, you should be fine. (Sorry I haven't converted to cm.)

-- Don't call or email to ask about your entry. When buried under several thousand entries arriving in a single week, we don't have the time to locate individual scripts.

Good luck to everyone.

Updated: 05/01/2000

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