Mountain Article and Photographic Competitions 
The MCofS has encouraged creative mountain writing through the MCofS Mountain Article Competition since 1987. There have been over 300 entries since it’s inception by then President Graham E Little. Past Vice President Ingrid Parker then introduced a Poetry category in 1997.
We all have it in us, so if you feel you can let it out, then, enter the competition. The subject matter must have a connection with any aspect of mountaineering, rock climbing, walking or ski mountaineering / ski-touring. It can be fiction or non-fiction, weird or wonderful. Judges will look for originality.
Judges are MCofS Committee members and staff, past competition winners and well known authors or journalists. Volunteer and MCofS member Joe Brown is the Mountain Article Competition Coordinator, compiling entries and arranging judging. The articles are judged anonymously.
NEW for 2008
This year 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 for both competitions 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.
Previous Winners:
Find out who won prizes in recent years and read the articles here:
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