Entrants retain all rights to their entries, except in the case of the winner, to whom a publishing contract will be offered.

Now, though, you don't have to wait for that elusive publishing contract and the far-off praise of the critics.

By the time of the latter's reinvention as a disco act in the mid-1970s, he no longer had the group under a publishing contract.

A typical publishing contract pays the author 7½ per cent of net receipts on physical books.

At the same time, she came to the end of her first publishing contract.