Entries are now open for the 2013 Mountain Article and Photography Competitions. Run by the Mountaineerin Council of Scotland (MCofS) and the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival, prizes include cash and EMFF tickets, and the deadline for entries is 31 August.
The MCofS has encouraged creative mountain writing through this competition since 1987. There have been over 300 entries since it's inception by then President Graham E Little. Past Vice President Ingrid Parker then introduced a Poetry category in 1997.
The MCofS says, “We all have it in us, so if you feel you can let it out, then, enter the competition. The subject matter must have a connection with any aspect of mountaineering, rock climbing, walking or ski mountaineering / ski-touring. It can be fiction or non-fiction, weird or wonderful. Judges will look for originality.”
The judges will be MCofS Committee members and staff, past competition winners and well known authors or journalists.
The winning entries for both competitions are announced at the Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival in October. Winners of the photography competition are displayed as part of the EMFF exhibition at the Edinburgh Fine Art Library on George IV Bridge, which runs for a month in the lead up to the festival in October and they will then be reproduced in the Scottish Mountaineer.
For full details for both competition including categories, prizes, and entry requirements see the MCofS website.