The Rules:
The Rules:
1. Contest is open to all college students--no age limit. Employees of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. and their families, its agents and affiliates are not eligible.
2. To enter, submit your typed, double-spaced manuscript of 25 pages or fewer with a 3"x5" card listing name, age, college affiliation, permanent home address and phone number to Playboy College Fiction Contest, 680 N. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60611. All entries must be previously unpublished original works of fiction and must be postmarked between September 1, 1996 and January 1, 1997.
3. Decisions of the judges are final. Playboy reserves the right to withhold prizes if no submitted entries meet its usual standard of publication.
4. Winners will be notified by mail and may be obligated to sign and return an affidavit of eligibility within 30 days of notification. By acceptance of their prize, winners consent to use of their names, photographs or other likenesses for purposes of advertising, trade and promotion on behalf of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. without further compensation to the winners, unless prohibited by law.
5. Playboy reserves the right to edit the first-prize-winning story for publication.
6. Playboy reserves the right to publish winning entries in U.S. and foreign editions of Playboy and to reprint or incorporate them in any electronic or print English-language or foreign-edition anthologies or compilations of Playboy material.
7. Void where prohibited by law.
8. All manuscripts become property of Playboy and will not be returned.
9. Taxes on prizes are the responsibility of the winners. For a list of winners, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Playboy College Fiction Contest, 680 N. Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60611.
