The competition is international and is open to all authors writing in English or any of the BCMS languages (comprising Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin.)
Authors who write in BCMS may submit their entries in Latin or Cyrillic script.
There are no theme, or genre limitations and boundaries.
Work must be original and unpublished.
One author can compete in all categories, for all three awards respectively.
Multiple submissions are allowed (as well as simultaneous submissions).
By participating in the contest of the Hourglass Literary Magazine authors agree that their work which they submitted in the contest is to be published in the first issue of the Hourglass Literary Magazine (in print and digital form).
Short stories, essays and poems by writers who write in English will be translated in one of the BCMS languages nd vice versa.