Six+ Competitions For Travel Writers and Bloggers
Are you blogging and writing about travel? Want to make some money and gain the recognition of your peers and others? Check out these travel writing and blogging contests.
Telegraph Travel Writing Competition
Called Just Back, the weekly competition offers writers the chance to win £200 in the currency of their choice. Just submit an entry of up to 500 words to justback@telegraph.co.uk (UK residents; see full T&C)
Solas Awards
An annual competition for which submissions are open all year round, the Solas Awards have a submission length of 750 words. Entry fees apply. (US residents; see full T&C). Closing date for this year’s competition is September 21, 2010.
52 Perfect Days Travel Writing Contest
Submit up to 1,000 words on an experience in a National Monument, National Seashore or Historic Parks in the United State or Canada. The prize for the 52 Perfect Days Travel Writing Contest is a trip to Hawaii. (US, Canada, Mexico residents; see full T&C). Closing date: October 31, 2010.
Gran Tourismo Monthly Travel Blogging Competition
Starting this month and running all year, Gran Tourismo has a monthly travel blogging competition on different themes. You need 500 words of “evocative travel writing”. There are three prizes on offer. (T&C) Closing date for this month: March 28,2010.
Holiday Velvet
Holiday Velvet is offering a weekend in Barcelona for writers of an original short travel story (bloggers welcome too). It’s open to everyone except professional travel writers. (See the T&C for a definition). Closing date: September 10,2010.
Do you know of any travel writing and travel blogging competitions? Let us know in the comments, please.
Preservation Foundation
Preservation Foundation runs a number of contests for unpublished writers, including a travel non fiction contest, with a prize of $100. Stories must be between 1,500 and 5,000 in length.
Annual Contests to Watch
The following contests are currently closed, but usually run annually.
- The Sliced Bread Magazine Travel Writing Contest. Offers $300 in prize money. (T&C)
- Wanderlust and Lipstick has run a travel writing contest for two years.
- The Guardian in the UK runs a summer travel writing competition. (See also this link.)
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