Greetings contestants!

First of all, congratulations to all those who have made it this far!

So the final round is here. The judges of this round will be the three admins (the head judges).
We have decided that the date of specialty winner result declaration will be 15th August, and the main winner along with the genre winner and the surprise winner(if any) will be announced on 20th August.

On 15 August the four specialty winners will be declared.

On 20 August the final winner of the shines contest will be declared as well as the list of genre winners will be disclosed. 

For those of you who don't remember, we had just disclosed the list of the qualifiers of the first round and not the actual genre winners earlier.

So on 20 August, we'll disclose the list of books which will get the prizes of the genre winner.

So sadly, on  the 20th August the Shines Contest will end.

But after 20th August, Shines spotlight will be published with the interviews, book reviews of the winners.

Hence all the people who participated in the contest and didn't qualify, and the first round qualifiers...Watch out for the update of 20th August, maybe one of you will be the surprise or genre winner!

Best of luck to all the contestants.

May the odds be ever in your favor!

Love,
Shines