Mountain Article Competition & Photography Competition 2008
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In association with Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival
The MCofS has joined with Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival to expand the long-running MCofS literary competition and the EMFF photography competition.
The winning entries will be announced at the Edinburgh Festival. Winners of both the literary (poetry and possibly the essays, depending on length) and photography competition will be displayed as part of the EMFF exhibition at the Edinburgh Fine Art Library on George IV Bridge, which runs for a month in the lead up to the festival in October and will then be reproduced in the Scottish Mountaineer in November.
EMFF have kindly donated weekend passes (worth £100) to the Festival for the winners in each literary category.
MCofS Mountain Article Competition
Applications
As usual we are looking for inspirational writing about any subject to do with mountaineering, walking, and climbing (or the mountains themselves!). Full details are on the website, but prose entries should be under 2,000 words and can be fact or fiction. MCofS and EMFF retain the right to publish the winners. Deadline 31st August 2007. Good luck!
PROSE Category
1st PRIZE £150 + EMFF ticket; 2nd PRIZE £100; 3rd PRIZE £50
POETRY category
1st PRIZE £100 + EMFF Ticket; 2nd PRIZE £50; 3rd Prize £25
Joe Brown is the volunteer ‘MAC’ Coordinator and entries should be directed to him:
by post (please mark your envelope “mountain article competition”) send to:
Joe Brown, Mountain Article Coordinator, c/o the MCofS, The Old Granary, West Mill Street, Perth PH1 5QP
by email to: article@mountaineering-scotland.org.uk.
EMFF Photography Competition
Applications
There are two categories. Winners will gain a £25 cash prize from EMFF and MCofS Individual membership for 1 year + a Harvey British Mountain Map of Cairngorm (worth £40). Deadline 31st July 2008. MCofS and EMFF retain the right to publish the winning entries.
1. A Winter Adventure
2. Pushing My Limits
Full information about the photography competition and conditions of entry can be found at the EMFF website at: www.edinburghmountainff.com.
Entries should be sent either as digital jpeg format (5Mb max) or prints (10x8):
By post to Stevie Christie (EMFF), c/o Wilderness Scotland, 3A St Vincent Street, Edinburgh EH3 6SW.
By email to: stevie@edinburghmountainff.com
Conditions of Entry for the MCofS Article Competition:
Prose entries should be a maximum of 2,000 words long. Poetry entries can be as long or as short as you like. All should be preferably typed (or supplied as a word or rtf document on disc or Email), but otherwise clearly written on single-sided paper. Enclose an SAE if you wish the article to be returned.
The MCofS & EMFF reserves the right to publish the prize-winning entries. Past winners have been published either in the MCofS magazine, Annual Report or in magazines or Journals.
The competition is open to anyone resident in the UK, either members of the MCofS or not. Members should quote their club name or individual membership number.