By submitting your manuscript (story) for consideration as a mentee of the Wattys 2023 Bootcamp Mentorship, applicants must observe the following rules and their manuscripts must meet ALL eligibility criteria below. We recommend you reference the Wattys Awards book on @thewattys profile to familiarize yourself with the most recent Wattys eligibility criteria.

NOTE: You DO NOT need to be a bootcamp mentee to submit your story to the Wattys.

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1) You must be at least 13 years or older.

2) Your manuscript can be complete or ongoing. If it's ongoing, at least 40,000 words must be posted to Wattpad.

3) Your manuscript must contain at least 40,000 words if it's ongoing or 50,000 words if it's complete.

4) You must intend to submit the same manuscript to the Wattys.

5) Your manuscript must fit into the genre categories accepted by the 2023 Wattys awards. Last year's accepted genres were: Fanfiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Horror, Paranormal, Mystery & Thriller, New Adult, Romance, Science Fiction, Wild Card, Young Adult, and Sequels. We can only anticipate that the same genres will be accepted this year.

6) Your story must have been first posted to Wattpad on or after January 1, 2021. We do not yet know what this year's Wattys eligibility criteria will be for 'first posted date', so we are basing it off precedent.

7) For the moment, only manuscripts written in English will be accepted. However, if we find mentors who are comfortable mentoring in another language, they will indicate this in their wish list.

8) The manuscript has to be your own. You will retain the rights to your story.

9) Your manuscript has to be exclusive to Wattpad and fully available on your profile.

10) Your manuscript must be written to the best of your ability, with spelling and grammar editing complete.

11) Only one manuscript per mentee.

12) Manuscripts cannot have won a Watty before, but it's okay if they were previously submitted to the Wattys.

13) You can submit to a maximum of (3)three mentors, so choose wisely. During the open submission window, the number of applicants for each mentor will be posted in a chapter of this book, giving you the opportunity to assess your chances of being chosen.

14) You must be willing to commit a lot of time to your manuscript during the mentorship period (June 1st to August 8th). Remember, our mentors donate their time without compensation, so please treat them with courtesy and abide by agreed upon deadlines. We all have lives outside of Wattpad, so value each other and keep communication open if you're struggling to stay on top of things.

15) Mentees must agree to complete the editing and polishing of their story before submitting it to the Wattys. An earlier submission will be acceptable in the unlikely case the Wattys submission window is moved forward.

16) If you are a former mentee, we ask that you DO NOT apply again. There are a limited number of mentors involved in the program, and we want to give your fellow writers the opportunity to experience the mentorship just as you did.