StoryHunt submission terms
The whole agreement, in plain words, on one page. Last updated 14 August 2026.
These terms cover stories sent through the form at sgwashere.com/storyhunt. The agreement is between you and Saurabh Garg, a writer based in Mumbai, India. Ticking the rights box on the form means you accept what is below.
The short version
You keep the copyright in your story. You let me publish it on this site and in the Season 1 book. You can still do whatever you like with it elsewhere. Nothing about a living person goes out without that person’s agreement. If your story is selected you read it before anyone else does, and you can stop it.
1/ What you keep
You own the copyright in your story and you keep it. Sending it to me transfers nothing. You can sell it, post it, put it in your own book, or give it to another publisher, at any time, without asking me.
2/ What you give me
You give me a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to do the following with your story:
1/ Publish it on sgwashere.com.
2/ Publish it in the StoryHunt Season 1 anthology, in print, as an ebook and as an audiobook.
3/ Edit it for length, clarity and accuracy.
4/ Quote from it to promote StoryHunt and the book, including in press coverage, on social media and in a newsletter.
5/ Translate it into English if you send it in another language.
Non-exclusive means I do not own it and you are not locked in. Royalty-free means neither of us pays the other for the licence itself.
3/ What you are promising me
By sending a story you are telling me that:
1/ It is yours to send, or it is your family’s and you have the standing to send it.
2/ It is true as far as you know it.
3/ You have not copied it from a book, a website or another writer.
4/ Publishing it will not break a court order, a settlement, or a confidentiality agreement you have signed.
If you are not sure about the last one, write to me before you send it.
4/ People who are still alive
Most of these stories have other people in them. This is the part that goes wrong in books, so here is how I handle it.
The form asks you to name who else is in the story and whether they are living. Nothing that identifies a living person gets published until either that person has agreed in writing, or the story has been changed enough that they cannot be identified. I do that work, not you. If neither is possible, that part comes out.
People who have died are treated with the same care but without the consent requirement.
5/ If your story is selected
Ten stories go into Season 1. If yours is one of them:
1/ I interview you on a recorded call. The recording is used to write the story and is not published.
2/ I check what can be checked, and I may come back to you with questions.
3/ You read the finished piece before anyone else does.
4/ You can ask for changes, and you can withdraw it entirely, up to the point it goes to print. If you withdraw it, that is the end of it and I do not ask why.
5/ It runs under your name, or under initials or a first name if you asked for that.
Once the book is printed I cannot recall copies already sold. I can and will take the story off the website on request.
6/ If your story is not selected
I write and tell you. Your story is not published. The licence in section 2 sits unused, and you can ask me to delete the entry at any time.
7/ Money
There is no entry fee and there never will be one. There is no payment for a story.
Contributors to Season 1 get printed copies of the book, a credit under their own name, and the recording and transcript of their own interview.
If Season 1 makes money after costs, I will publish what it made. Nothing in these terms entitles you to a share of it.
8/ Your details
The form collects your name, email, phone if you give it, where you live and where your family is from. That data is held by me and used to talk to you about StoryHunt. Your email goes on a StoryHunt mailing list, separate from any other list I run. It is never sold and never rented.
If you ticked the updates box you also get an email when Season 1 comes out. Every one of those emails has an unsubscribe link.
Write to sg@c4e.in to see what I hold on you, to correct it, or to have it deleted. Deletion includes the story unless it has already been published with your approval.
9/ Withdrawing
Write to sg@c4e.in and say you want your story pulled. Before publication that is immediate and unconditional. After publication I remove it from the website and it stays in copies of the book already printed.
10/ The boring paragraph
These terms are governed by the law of India and the courts at Mumbai have jurisdiction. If I change them I will change the date at the top of this page, and a change never applies backwards to a story already sent.
Questions go to sg@c4e.in. I answer them myself.