| Leap Local Competition - Travel Writer Competition Guidelines |
|
|
|
Competition updates, including announcements on judges, tips, and entries: Join us on
Description of Leap Local Travel Writer Competition: Leap Local will be awarding a $500 USD first prize and two $150 USD second prizes to travellers with hilarious, surprising, culture shocking, passionate, and life changing local travel stories. When we say local, we mean a travel experience which engaged with local individuals and culture unique to the travel location. The story could also be an “ooops” story - an “I was a stupid tourist” story, about a time you were physically lost, or lost in translation, and now realize that you should have employed a local expert, or guide, for that journey.
Guidelines for Leap Local Travel Writer Competition:
(All entries must be made by 12:00 midnight (in your time zone) September 30, 2010. No late entries will be accepted.)
1. Write a 500-650 word story or article about your local travel experience. Please only submit true stories about something that happened to you. Submit your story in body of email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it using 12pt font-size, preferably Arial or Times New Roman. Indicate in the subject of your email: Leap Local Travel Writing Entry. Below your story provide a few details for other tourists regarding getting to the location, dining, places to stay, transportation, links, or any insider knowledge that will help your fellow traveller. This information is not included in story word-count. 2. All competitors must post a non-fiction recommendation or rating about a local guide or service on the Leap Local website, or must have posted a review on Leap Local in the past. Provide the name of the local you have reviewed and link to your review when you submit your story. (*Please note your website recommendation or review on the Leap Local website does not have to be about the local experience that you are writing about for the travel writing competition.) 3. Entrants need to provide their real names, contact details including country of residence, and email addresses.[1] 4. You will receive an email saying that your story was received within one week of submitting. Please do not contact Leap Local to ask about the status of your story. If you have not received an email confirming that your work was received, please contact Kirsten indicating this, and re-submit story, using an alternate email address if you have one. 5. The competition will be judged by a group of professional international writers, authors and industry experts. The judging decision will be final. Judges will be announced before competition closure. Please do not contact them. 6. Your story must not have been published anywhere before previously, including online on websites or blogs. Leap Local has the exclusive right to first publication, and non-exclusive right to distribute and syndicate the stories whether in print, in any media, electronic, online, or any other medium, on any website and in any database, archive or library, on or offline. Authors of competition stories will be credited for their work. Once the winners have been announced, all other competition participants are free to use their stories elsewhere. [1] Leap Local Limited will contact you using this email address regarding the competition. You will also be automatically subscribed to our mailing list which you can opt out of at a later date. We do not currently allow any third parties access to our mailing list. Add this page to your favourite Social Bookmarking websites:         |
