Contest Rules?

[JLT]

I've got a couple of questions about the contest rules:

1. Is there a thread that discusses the rules of the contests? In the recent announcement by Homer, subjects were discussed but not genres. So is it possible to submit a poem for a contest where the genre isn't specified?

2. It's assumed that the submitted work will be entirely the writer's. But suppose that the work was first submitted to a beta reader, for the purpose of correcting things like typos and spelling and such, and identifying parts that weren't clear. As long as the beta reader didn't provide replacement verbiage that was used, would this be permissible in a submission?

 

[DLC]

Poems are for poetry contests. Work shopping entries is haram. No creating extra accounts to vote for yourself either.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I've got a couple of questions about the contest rules:

1. Is there a thread that discusses the rules of the contests? In the recent announcement by Homer, subjects were discussed but not genres. So is it possible to submit a poem for a contest where the genre isn't specified?

2. It's assumed that the submitted work will be entirely the writer's. But suppose that the work was first submitted to a beta reader, for the purpose of correcting things like typos and spelling and such, and identifying parts that weren't clear. As long as the beta reader didn't provide replacement verbiage that was used, would this be permissible in a submission?

1. If there's no genre specified, then there's no genre specified. You'd have to check with @dbesim if an actual prompt could be in doubt there, but generally speaking, I don't see how genre could be a factor.

Are you referring to something in the Fourth Contest where I mentioned multiple formats?

2. That's fine. Don't care about beta readers.