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LITERARY COMPETITIONS
PROSE & POETRY COMPETITIONS WITH THE MCoS

New for 2008, we have prose and poetry competitions, which we are running in association with the Mountaineering Council of Scotland.

The MCofS has encouraged creative mountain writing through the MCofS Mountain Article Competition since 1987. There have been over 300 entries since its 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.

Prizes
Prose Competition:

1st - £150 & EMFF weekend ticket
2nd - £100
3rd - £50

Poetry Competition:
1st - £100 & EMFF weekend ticket
2nd - £50
3rd - £25



How to enter

We are looking for inspirational writing about any subject to do with mountaineering, walking, and climbing (or the mountains themselves!). You can write prose or poetry and there are prizes for each.

Joe Brown is the volunteer competition coordinator and all entries should be directed to him. Send entries either by post or email. By post, please mark your envelope "mountain article competition" and send to:

Joe Brown, Mountain Article Coordinator, c/o the MCofS, The Old Granary, West Mill Street, Perth PH1 5QP

Alternatively, email entries to Joe at
article@mountaineering-scotland.org.uk

If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Joe at the above email.

Competition Rules:
- Closing date for entries is 31August 2008
- The competition is open to anyone resident in the UK, whether members of the MCofS or not. Members should quote their club name or membership number.
- Prose entries should be no more than 2,000 words and can be fact or fiction

- 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.
- MCofS and EMFF retain the right to publish the winners
- The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

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