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E: 26/02 Win a Hebridean Cruise + R/U Prizes (Writing Effort)



Competition to find Britain’s best amateur travel writers - full details on link (not putting it all in due to MSE's rules on copy/paste)

Prizes:
1st prize: 7 night cruise for 2 with Hebridean Island Cruises in a G-Grade double or twin Castle cabin onboard the Hebridean Princess in 2010
2nd prize: A 2 night stay for 2 adults and 2 children at the Auchrannie Spa Resort on the Isle of Arran, Scotland
3rd prize: An overnight stay for 2in a four poster room at Bibury Court Hotel in the Cotswolds
4th prize: 2 tickets to a forthcoming exhibition of your choice at the Royal Academy of Arts
5th prize: A Thorntons Chocolates Chocoholic gift set

Stories can be a maximum of 500 words and must be first hand accounts of your experience. Anyone can enter, but the story you supply must not have been published anywhere else.

The winner and four runners up will be printed in a special feature in the June 2010 issue of the magazine and other selected stories will be published on the magazine website.

Direct to entry page here: http://writingcomp.questionpro.com/

Good Luck! :D
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