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JUST LAUNCHING: the Walkopedia Travel Writing and Photo Competitions, for:

· The best travel writing about a walk or hike.
Prizes:
Winner: a Daunt Books* book token worth £500
Runner-up: £200
Junior Prize: best under 18 entry: £200
Best entry from a First Story** student: £200
(Runner-up) £100
* Probably the world’s best travel bookshop: www.dauntbooks.co.uk.
** The excellent First Story charity was set up to nurture and inspire creativity, literacy and talent in British schools. See www.firststory.org.uk.

· The best photographs taken on a walk or hike.
Prizes:
Winner: £400
Runner-up: £200
Junior Prize: best under 18 entry: £200
 

We expect to announce the winners in March 2012. We will publish the winning pieces and photographs on the Walkopedia website.

Walkopedia is not about peak-bagging or self-flagellation. We will judge your writing or your photographs based on how vividly and passionately they convey your experiences on your walk or hike. Whether you are writing about or photographing your wander through a city, a trek up in the mountains or even a quick walk to the shops, we like to see conciseness and humour in writing, and a lively and evocative eye for what's going on around you in all entries.

The judges of the travel writing prizes are:

William Mackesy, travel writer and founder of Walkopedia.
William Fiennes, best-selling author of Snow Geese and co-founder of First Story.
Serena Mackesy, best-selling novelist, travel writer and journalist.
 
The photgraphy prizes wil be judged by Walkopedia staff.
 
 
Find the entry form and the detailed rules and terms of the competitions here
 
 
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FUN!
 
Walking and hiking websites can be a bit earnest. We are (rather slowly) developing the Walkopedia remedy.

Watch this space for:

We welcome your ideas, experiences and pictures: contact us now.
 
 
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Our first competition!
 

Subscribe for our Walkopedia online Magazine and enter our £500 draw

 

Anyone who registers to receive our lovely Walkopedia online Magazine before the end of 31 December 2011 will be automatically entered for our cash prize draw:

£100 each for five lucky winners.
(Prize money may be increased if we have a lot of entries.)

Subscribe now: register as a new visitor and confirm that you do want to receive a Walkopedia magazine/newsletter.


Have a look at some recent editions of Walkopedia Magazine:

The rules are simple:

  1. The draw will take place in early January 2012, with refernce to regitered subscribers as at 31 December 2011. The results will be announced and winners will be notified in January 2012.
  2. Anyone who validly subscribes for Walkopedia Magazine after 30th September 2010 (and has not unsubscribed before the draw is made) will be entered for the draw. Walkopedia Ltd staff and their families and associates may not enter.
  3. We can’t give a prize to anyone we can’t contact. So, we need to receive a real email address. See our privacy policy about our commitment to maintaining your privacy.
  4. Anyone who subscribes more than once using the same email address will have all his/her entries disqualified. The competition will be suspended in the event of evidence of large-scale manipulation or other inappropriate activity.
  5. By submitting an entry, you agree to abide by and comply with the terms of the competition. Walkopedia has full discretion as to the interpretation of these terms, and their supplementation where it deems appropriate, and any relevant decision by it in relation to this competition shall be final.
If you have any questions on this competition, please e-mail us at info@walkopedia.net