The Wildlife Trusts (TWT) have teamed up with independent publisher Elliott & Thompson and Foyles book shop to launch a brand new writing competition for unpublished authors.
The winner will see their entry published in Nature Tales: Encounters with Britain’s Wildlife, an anthology of British nature writing which E&T will publish later this year in partnership with TWT.
The competition invites previously unpublished authors to submit entries of up to 2,000 words describing a real-life personal encounter with wildlife.
The deadline for entries is midnight on Sunday 18 July 2010 the competition is open only to residents of the UK, Channel Islands, Isle of Man and Republic of Ireland aged 18 years or over.
The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges, comprising Simon Barnes, renowned naturalist and writer; Michael Allen, Chairman of The Wildlife Trusts and co-author of Nature Tales; Mark Searle, Publisher at E&T; Adam Cormack, Communications Manager at TWT and Julia Kingsford, Head of Marketing at Foyles.
The winning entry will appear alongside contributions from both modern and historic naturalists, including Roger Deakin, Joseph Banks, Steve Backshall, Simon Barnes and Bill Oddie, when the book is published on 24 September 2010.
More information at Nature Tales Competition Page
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