Mountain Article and Photographic Competitions

The MCofS has joined with Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival to expand this long-running MCofS literary competition and the EMFF photography competition

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.

NEW MAC Coordinator We are pleased to be able to introduce a new volunteer to take over as MAC Coordinator from 2010 – Ania Kociolek. Ania is an active mountain enthusiast: a hill-walker, a climber and a photographer. She occasionally publishes in mountaineering and travel magazines where she contributes articles and photographs. In the past she has been involved in volunteering with Euromontana, International Polar Foundation, Mountain Wilderness International and other mountain - focused organisations located in different parts of Europe. She will be giving a higher profile to the competition over the coming months as well as helping to identify judges.

The winning entries for both competitions are announced at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival in October. Winners of both the literary (poetry and possibly the essays, depending on length) and photography competition are 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 they will then be reproduced in the Scottish Mountaineer.

2010 Application Details

Previous Winners:
Find out who won prizes in recent years and read the articles here: