The Sportswriter.org.uk sportswriting competition 2012 is now closed to entries and the winners have been selected. We have also sent the money raised to Cyclists Fighting Cancer.
Reminder of the prizes:
First Prize: £250
Second Prize: £75
Third Prize: £25
So, without further ado, let us announce the winning entries:
1st prize: Oliver Goldstein with his entry ‘Sonny’
2nd prize: Christine Steenfeldt with ‘England Till I Die’
3rd prize: Jonathan Chapple with ‘Dismissal’
Many thanks to all those who entered. There were plenty of quality articles, poems and stories and though there was only room for three winners, we’ll be contacting the authors of some of our favourites to request permission to publish them on our site.
The deadline was midnight, Sunday 1st July 2012
Even if you weren’t successful, check out the website of the charity to whom £1 of your entry fee has been donated here. 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.
Thanks again! We’ll publish details of the 2013 competition soon.
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.
