Brian,
Last
year one of your students (Tom Cameron) was a finalist in Leap Local’s travel
story competition, so I’m hoping that once again you’ll inform your students
and blog-readers about the 2012 contest.
Like
last year, there is a $500 USD first prize and two $150 dollar runners-up
prizes for just a 500-650 word personal travel story. The competition is free
to enter but we do require that the entrants also recommend a new local in
tourism to the website when they submit their story (a “local” being someone
who lives at the point of destination).
Plus
this year there is a new prize (The $1000 Splits) which also rewards $500 to
the writer who makes the best recommendation of a tour guide or service, and
another $500 to the local they recommended. So, someone who enters a great
story and a great review, has the potential to win $1000.
The winning stories will be published in What
on earth? Leap's online travel magazine and the top 25 have
an opportunity to be published in the Monday Escape section of the magazine.
The
deadline is August
31st 2012. See
the link to the full guidelines, entry template, past winning stories, and the
judging panel here.
Thanks
so much,
Kirsten
Koza
Misadventure Travel Writer
/ Author
Read
Tom Cameron’s most recent travel piece (not the piece that won the Leap Local
contest) here.
For information about all the annual writing contests in Canada, order the Canadian Writers' Contest Calendar, just $23.50 including all taxes and shipping. For details, email brianhenry@sympatico.ca
See Brian Henry's schedule here, including writing workshops and creative writing courses in Kingston, Peterborough, Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Georgetown, Oakville, Milton, Burlington, St. Catharines, Hamilton, Dundas, Kitchener, Guelph, London, Woodstock, Orangeville, Newmarket, Barrie, Gravenhurst, Sudbury, Muskoka, Peel, Halton, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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