OFFICIAL RULES

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NO PURCHASE, FEE, OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN, AND PURCHASES, FEES, AND PAYMENTS WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING DEPEND ON THE JUDGING OF THE QUALITY OF YOUR ARTICLES BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF HOMESTATION MAGAZINE (THE "CONTEST JUDGES”) ACCORDING TO THE CRITERIA SET FORTH BELOW, AS WELL AS THE NUMBER OF UNIQUE VISITORS YOUR ARTICLE RECEIVES WITHIN THE SUBMISSION WINDOW. CONTEST OPEN TO PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED WRITERS WHO MEET THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH BELOW. SUBMISSIONS WINDOW ENDS SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2011 AT 11:59 PM GMT (THE "SUBMISSIONS PERIOD”).

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ELIGIBILITY: Contest open to individual persons who are 13 or older as of the time of their initial entry. Members of the HomeStation Editorial Staff are ineligible.

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TO ENTER: To be eligible to win prizes, your article(s) must meet all of the following criteria: Your article(s) must be in English, your articles must be your original work, and you must not assign or license to any other party any copyrights or other rights in your articles. Articles should not contain material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, pornographic, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, or otherwise objectionable. Proper spelling and grammar also help. You and your articles must comply with HomeStation Magazine's Terms of Use/Member Agreement, available at HomeStation Magazine’s website at http://www.hsmagazine.net . To enter your eligible article(s), register at HomeStation Magazine's website at http://www.hsmagazine.net , provide the registration information (including name, username, valid email address, and password), and submit your article(s) via the "Submissions" tab on HomeStation Magazine's website. This will automatically enter the article(s) into the queue for possible publication. You may submit as many articles as you like, but you must submit each article separately using a separate online submission form. Your article(s) must be submitted during the Contest Period.

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RATING AND JUDGING OF ARTICLES: Each article that you submit during the Contest Period will be rated by the HomeStation Editorial Staff, and this will allow your article(s) to be ranked against articles submitted by others that meet all of the eligibility requirements set forth in these Official Rules and that the Editorial Staff judge, in their sole discretion, as the best according to the following criteria: originality, creative imagination, characterization, and artistic quality (the "Judging Criteria”). If the article(s) are published, the Editorial Staff will tabulate the total number of unique visitors each submission received by midnight GMT, October 14th, 2011. THE CONTEST PERIOD IS SEPARATE FROM THE SUBMISSIONS PERIOD. The submissions period ends on September 30th, 2011. The contest period ends on October 14th, 2011. This allows for sufficient data tabulation. The articles that meet all of the eligibility requirements set forth in these Official Rules and that the Editorial Staff judge, in their sole discretion, as the best according to the Judging Criteria, and receive the highest numbers of unique visitors within the Contest Period, will be deemed the winners.

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PRIZES AND NOTIFICATION: Ten (10) contest prizes: $20.00 PlayStation Network Gift Cards. Each winner will be notified by e-mail on or about October 15th, 2011. Four (4) of the contest prizes are open to existing HSM team writers, while four (4) of the contest prizes are open to current HSM guest contributors and authors who have hitherto gone unpublished in HomeStation Magazine. Two (2) of the contest prizes (the "Editor's Choice" awards) are available to all entrants who are published during the Contest Period and do not win one of the other prizes. PSN Gift Cards are for North American residents exclusively. Each winner will be notified by electronic mail, using the email address that he or she provided in his or her online registration. The name of each winner will be posted on the HomeStation Magazine website at http://www.hsmagazine.net and/or in issues of HomeStation Magazine, and the winning articles will be published at the HomeStation Magazine website at http://www.hsmagazine.net or in an issue of HomeStation Magazine. Winners must respond to HomeStation Magazine by electronic mail, providing any information requested, within five (5) calendar days after email notification is sent or they will forfeit their prizes. Winners who respond to the email notification in a timely and correct manner will receive prizes as follows: winners will receive their respective codes for $20 PSN cards within 15 days of response. HomeStation Magazine reserves the right to validate information provided on any online submission forms and to verify eligibility before awarding any prizes. If a prize, or any portion thereof, cannot be awarded for any reason, HomeStation Magazine reserves the right to award another prize of approximate equal value. No substitute prizes are allowed except at the sole discretion of HomeStation Magazine.

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OWNERSHIP AND USE OF WINNING ARTICLES: All entrants retain the copyright rights that they have in the articles they submit, but all entrants, by participating in this Contest and submitting articles, grant HomeStation Magazine and any of HomeStation Magazine’s successors and assigns the perpetual and irrevocable right, license, and ability to use and publish all submitted articles (in the format submitted or in an altered format and in complete form or in excerpted form) on HomeStation Magazine's websites, on other websites, and in other media, for any purpose. Entrants’ opportunity to submit their articles and participate in this Contest constitutes full consideration for the foregoing grant. The foregoing grant requires no further consideration and is not dependent on entrants’ winning any prizes. HomeStation Magazine can publish or decline to publish, or use or decline to use, any submitted articles in HomeStation Magazine's sole discretion.

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GENERAL CONDITIONS: All online article submissions become the sole property of HomeStation Magazine and will not be acknowledged or returned. All entries and submissions are subject to verification. HomeStation Magazine assumes no responsibility for entries or submissions that are lost, late, misdirected, stolen, illegible, undelivered, garbled, damaged, mutilated, incomplete, reproduced mechanically, forged, falsified, altered, or tampered with (and any such entries or submissions are ineligible), or for any computer, online, telephone, or technical malfunctions that may occur. HomeStation Magazine assumes no responsibility for any technical problems in connection with the transmission or receipt of entries, including faulty electronic data transmission, traffic congestion on the Internet or on websites, hardware or software error, equipment failure or malfunction, or other online communications problems. In the event of disputes regarding the identities of the persons submitting entries, entries will be deemed made by the individuals who identify themselves on the entry forms. Winners may be required to provide proof of identity in order to receive prizes. Winners are solely responsible for any taxes associated with any prizes. HomeStation Magazine will publish the names of all winners. If for any reason this contest cannot be run or completed as planned, including infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause which corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of the contest, HomeStation Magazine reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who is responsible or who tampers with the contest, and to modify, cancel, or terminate the contest and select winners from all eligible entries received prior to the cancellation or termination. HomeStation Magazine reserves the right, under its sole discretion, to disqualify any individuals who do not abide by the Membership Agreement. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST MAY VIOLATE CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS. SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, HOMESTATION MAGAZINE RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION. In addition, HomeStation Magazine may modify the terms of the Contest with or without prior notice. This Contest is subject to all applicable laws and regulations, and is void wherever prohibited or restricted by law. Entrants agree to abide by the Official Rules and the decisions of HomeStation Magazine with respect to this contest, which are final.

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WINNERS’ LIST: A list of winners will be posted at the HomeStation Magazine website, at http://www.hsmagazine.net , and/or in an issue of HomeStation Magazine.

This contest is sponsored and administered by HomeStation Magazine.

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