For all of you travel writers, this may be of interest.
After much success last year, we have launched the 2nd edition of ourinternational guidebook writing contest, offering writers the opportunity to meet and mingle on the world’s largest book fair in Frankfurt, Germany – and to have their titles showcased on the Insight Guides booth! As you can imagine, this is a great opportunity to embark on a professional writing career.
The fair is visited by more than 299,000 visitors and over 10,000 journalists. Besides being showcased on the fair, the first prize wins a trip to the fair with flight, hotel and entrance ticket. The contest is open to all self-written travel, lifestyle and entertainment guidebooks. Deadline is September 15. You are welcome to submit new and existing works, and keep all copyrights. Participation is free.
More info: http://www.guidegecko.com/writing-contest
Hi Maralyn,
Congrats on being asked to be a judge for this interesting contest. Thanks for sharing the news of the contast.
M, I misspelled contest in my first comment.
Question, IF IFWTWA members enter, will you excuse yourself as a judge, or will this not make a difference? Thanks.
Good question about an IFWTWA member. I think I could judge fairly and I do not believe you know whom you are judging. However, if it is someone that I know well and like their writing, I would give the sponsors the choice of giving the material to someone else. They know I’m President of IFWTWA, so I imagine they would not give me books from IFWTWA members. I believe it is going to be blind reading. It’s just like all the scholarship applications we read. We have criteria and we stay objective.