SportsWriter.org.uk brings you our inaugural sportswriting competition, with cash prizes up for grabs while also raising money for Cyclists Fighting Cancer.
Prizes:
First Prize: £250
Second Prize: £75
Third Prize: £25
The three winning entries will also be published on our website.
Deadline: Midnight, Sunday 1st July 2012
We are seeking sportswriters with the ability to produce exciting, original sports-related writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, poetry or prose. We will donate £1.00 from each entry to Cyclists Fighting Cancer, who are a fantastic charity whose aim is to provide ‘bikes, adapted tricycles and equipment to children and young people whose lives have been affected by cancer’. The modest £3.00 entry fee is required both to cover the costs of the prizes and to raise some much-needed funds for this year’s chosen good cause. Check out their website here, on which you can find details of how their bikes have helped loads of young people and also read about what caused the charity’s founder, Mike Grisenthwaite to start it in the first place.
The contest is open to entrants of 18 years and older. You may write about any sport, in any style, whether match reports of your favourite football match, an intricate analysis of the techniques involved in ice hockey, or why kabaddi is more fun than curling. The choice is yours. Please refrain from anything that could be deemed libellous (we can’t afford the legal fees if we get sued by a Premier League footballer, for instance), but feel free to vent your spleen if that is what floats your kayak.
Entries may be anything up to 2000 words (or 40 lines for poems) and must be written in English. Please read the full Sportswriter Competition Terms and Conditions before entering. The closing date for entries is 1st July 2012, the final day of the Euro 2012 football championships. No entries received after midnight on that day will be read.
If you are ready to submit your entry, please pay the entry fee* then complete and submit the form below. Please note, the payment will be made to our parent company, DB Sporting Enterprises Ltd. Once you have made the payment you will be redirected back to the form to submit your entry.
*If you would like to pay by cheque or bank transfer instead of Paypal please contact us for details
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Please complete the form to submit your writing competition entry.
For the full Sportswriter Competition Terms and Conditions CLICK HERE
1. The Sportswriter Competition 2012 is open to residents of any country aged 18 years or over, except employees of DB Sporting Enterprises Ltd, their families, agents or anyone else professionally associated with this competition.
2. All information detailing how to enter forms part of these terms and conditions. It is a condition of entry that all rules are accepted as final and that the competitor agrees to abide by these rules. Submission of an entry will be taken to mean acceptance of these terms and conditions.
3. Entries should be submitted through the form on the www.sportswriter.org.uk website and must include the entrant’s name, email address, article/story/poem title and the text of the article/story/poem itself (of course).
4. There is a fee of £3.00 payable for each entry submitted, £1.00 of which will be donated to our chosen charity, £2.00 to cover prizes and administrative costs.
4. All entries must be received by midnight on Sunday 1st July 2012, the last day of the Euro 2012 football tournament. Late entries will be deleted.
5. To participate in this competition, entrants must write an article relating to sport of no more than 2000 words (or 40 lines for poems). Entries must be the work of the individual submitting them and must not have been published elsewhere or have won a prize in any other competition. It is the responsibility of each entrant to ensure that no element of their entry infringes the copyright of any third party or any laws. Entries will be judged on which are the most original, entertaining and interesting.
6. The judging panel will be comprised of members the www.sportswriter.org.uk Editorial Team. The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into.
7. Copyright in all submissions to the competition remains with the respective entrants. However, in order to allow publication on the website of the three winning entries, each entrant grants a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual licence to DB Sporting Enterprises Ltd to be published on the website www.freebetsfreetips.com. All published articles will contain the author’s credits.
8. No entries will be published in part or in full on www.sportswriter.org.uk or any other medium without the express permission of the entrant. If the entry is chosen for a prize (top three), permission is assumed for publication on said website, as detailed under these terms and conditions.
9. Illegible, incomplete or defaced entries will not be accepted. No responsibility can be accepted for lost entries and proof of sending will not be accepted as proof of receipt. Entries must not be sent through agencies or third parties.
10. The winners will be contacted and the winning entries will be published on www.sportswriter.org.uk within 28 days of the closing date of the competition.
11. The overall winner entrant will receive £250. The entrant chosen in second place will receive £75, and the entrant chosen in third place will receive £25. All prize money will be paid in British Pounds Sterling. Payments may be made by bank transfer to a UK bank account, by cheque or by PayPal.
12. The Sports Editorial staff of www.sportswriter.org.uk may contact entrants prior to the competition closing date if they would like to offer the chance to write for the website. This contact would be by email. Entrants would have no obligation to write for the website, and any such decision would not prejudice the outcome of the competition.
13. www.sportswriter.org.uk is responsible for the publication and adjudication of this competition. Provision of the prizes is the responsibility of DB Sporting Enterprises Ltd trading as www.sportswriter.org.uk.
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