-Review Criteria is the most important factor any Reviewer must understand before making submissions of any kind.

The criteria is grouped in three;

-Short story / Novels

-Poetry

-Graphic Workshop/ Cover shop

-As a REVIEWER, if you're able to follow through with the Review Criteria given, it will make your work much easier. Here they are.

-Please in your reviews ensure, the subjects in capital letters are provided in capital letter before scoring.

-To present an acceptable review, we kindly ask you check out formats in our old review book ;

'The Shimmer Community Journals And Reviews '

Please check the works there as samples before you continue.

-COVER : 10

-BOOK TITLE: 10

-BLURB/STORY DESCRIPTION: 10

-PAGE LAYOUT (Paragraph, Spacing, Lines, Order Of Sequence,  Neatness) :10

-CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT : 10

-GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY/SPELLING: 10

-COMMUNICATION WITH READERS: 5

-GENERAL SATISFACTION(Pleasure derived from reading the work) :15

-TOTAL: 80

✨ IMPORTANT TO REVIEWERS ✨

-One to six (1-6) lines must be written beside each scored criteria.

-Example ;

Title (7/10): It decipits the book properly. However it is not attractive at first glance.

-BOOK COVER : 10

-PAGE LAYOUT (Punctuation, Spacing, Paragraph) : 20

-ORIGINALITY : 10

-TONE OF EXPRESSION : 10

-DEPTH OF UNDERSTANDING/ MEANING DERIVED (Are you able to understand the figured of speech or idioms used by the poet?) : 20

-MESSAGE DELIVERED (Did you get the message delivered by the poetry?) :10

-OVERALL IMPRESSION : 20

-TOTAL: 100

-COVER: 10

-TITLE: 10

-FIRST IMPRESSION (How attractive were the covers or art works in the book?) : 10

-CREATIVITY: 30

-RIGHT USE AND BLEND OF COLORS: 20

-RESPOND TO BOOK COVER REQUESTS (PROMPTNESS) : 20

-TOTAL : 100