# The program on one page.

> The In Silico Awards on one page: eligibility, categories, scoring, judging, translation, rights, fees, and prizes.

Human-readable page: [https://insilicoawards.org/glance.html](https://insilicoawards.org/glance.html)

*At a glance*

Excellent fiction made with machines in the process, judged first as fiction. The essentials are here; the [full rules](rules.html.md) have the detail.

*What it is*

### An award for the fiction, with an honest account of how it was made.

Any genre, any subject. The work does not need to be about AI. A machine must have taken part in making it, and the entrant says how. There is no minimum or maximum amount of machine-generated text: fully generated, partly generated, heavily or lightly edited work are all eligible.

*The one rule readers follow*

### Made with AI is expected. Unedited isn’t.

Readers judge whether the text has been worked. Unrevised machine habits count against it; a deliberate machine voice is judged on whether it works. No AI detectors.

*Categories*

One entry per author per category. Submit your best work.

*Who can enter*

- Authors worldwide, except where U.S. sanctions prohibit it.
- Unpublished work, or work first published from January 1, 2025.
- Self-published work counts as published.
- Under-18s: Short Fiction, through a guardian.

*How it is scored*

Pass/fail: the dossier must show a machine took part, and rights and privacy must be respected. Finalists need at least 8 of 20 process points.

*Process dossier*

A plain-language account can earn full marks. Code, logs, and repositories are welcome, never required. [Dossier guide](process.html.md)

*How judging works*

- **Screen.** Completeness, eligibility, file safety. A person confirms every decision.
- **First reading.** Independent readers decide whether a work earns a full read. Short Fiction is read whole; Longform by its opening 10,000 words and synopsis. Readers never see who wrote it.
- **Full reading.** Advancing works are read completely and scored as fiction.
- **Process review.** Leading works are assessed on their dossiers.
- **Shortlist and final panel.** Finalists are chosen with written reasons, read in full by the final judges, and decided by consensus or ranked vote.

*File security and AI*

Files are security-checked and shown to readers as submitted. We never run the work through an AI model; AI may help a reviewer read a highly technical process dossier, and that is all.

*Translations*

Author-reviewed machine translation is fine. Enter with the English opening and synopsis plus the complete original. The full English text is due within 45 days only if the work advances.

*Authorship*

Co-authored work is welcome. A named human author takes responsibility for every entry. Pen names are fine; everyone credited is identified privately, and only the public name is published.

*Rights*

You keep copyright and all publication rights. Winning requires no publishing agreement. Finalists’ and winners’ published work is linked from our site; other entries are never identified.

*Awards and prizes*

**The In Silico Grand Award**, a winner in each category, the **Galatea Citation** for a genuinely inventive method, and the **Future Scriptorium Citation** for a writer under 18 if youth entries are received. The panel may combine, reduce, or withhold awards.

The awards are not run for profit. Fees pay for review first; what remains funds the prizes. Amounts are announced when submissions close.

*Integrity*

Misrepresentation, not machine generation, is the offense. Any attempt to manipulate reviewers or review tools voids the entry and bars the entrant from future cycles.

*More detail*

## Read the full rules, or ask us.

The rules preview has every definition and exception. Questions go to [hello@insilicoawards.org](mailto:hello@insilicoawards.org).

[Full rules](rules.html.md)