BEGIN:VCALENDAR CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE;VALUE=TEXT:GMT PRODID:PEAK Corporation - piCal - X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Unbound Press Nonfiction Award VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:GMT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19390101T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20120831 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20120901 LOCATION:£ 5 - € 8 - $ 10 TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 UID:pical060-e5e264e98fe9de2cd2e6ba2981ebdab4 DTSTAMP:20120502T103529Z CATEGORIES:Entry Fee,Non-Fiction,U.S. Writers,Entry Fee,Non-Fiction,Worldwide Writers,Entry Fee,Non-Fiction,U.K. Writing Competitions,Entry Fee,Non-Fiction,Writing Contests DESCRIPTION:Closing Date: August 31, 2012\nWe always make an effort to notify winners within 30 days of closing date.\n1st Prize – £500, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy\n2nd Prize – £250, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy\n3rd Prize – £125, publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy\nShortlisted – publication in 2012 print anthology, 1 free copy\nHonourable Mentions – offer to publish in the quarterly ejournal Spilling Ink Review\nEntry fee (per entry): £5 or €8 or $10\n\nGuest Judge: Iain Bamforth\nIain Bamforth grew up in Glasgow, where he attended medical school and indelibly acquired what Robert Louis Stevenson called “the strong Scots accent of mind.” In a varied career as doctor and writer, he has worked as a general practitioner, hospital doctor (in the Ameri­can Hospital of Paris as well as in the Australian outback), editor and translator, and since 2005 as a public health consultant in western Papua, the southern Philippines and other remote parts of south-east Asia. His publications include four collections of poems, a history of modern medicine as told through literature, and a collection of essays on European intellectual history (visit, Works). He writes for Quadrant, Times Literary Supplement, British Journal of General Practice, and has a regular column “Catchwords” on language, culture and ideas in PN Review. Home for the last fifteen years has been on the French side of the Rhine but within hailing distance of Germany. For more information about Iain please visit: iainbamforth.com (where you can experience the author reading his work, Sound Clips) and also read a selection of Iain’s work, Notebook.\nCompetition Guidelines\n\n 2,200 words max (no minimum).\n This year the Nonfiction Award is wide-open to all styles. We welcome everything from creative nonfiction (a style which uses literary techniques to create factually accurate narratives) to journalism to biographies to travel writing to technical writing to articles to essays and letters. This isn’t an exhaustive list, of course, but it does give you an idea of broad spectrum of possibilities.\n Multiple entries are accepted but must be accompanied with an entry fee.\n Simultaneous submissions are accepted but please let us know as soon as possible if your entry has been accepted elsewhere or won/placed in another writing competition. Entry fees will not be refunded in this case.\n Entries may be submitted via email or post. Entries submitted via email must be attached in the form of a Word (doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). Entries submitted via post must be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced. Entries sent via post will not be returned (please don’t send your only copy).\n Please be kind when formatting and adhere to general rules of courtesy (i.e. 12pt standard font, double-spaced, pages numbered).\n Your name, email address or any other distinguishing names should not appear in the body of your submission. For example, please don’t put your name and email address in the header or footer. It is fine to include the title of your submission.\n Submissions must be entrant’s own original work and must be previously unpublished (if your work has appeared in an online workshop or a member’s only writer’s chat – etc – it is eligible for this competition).\n International submissions are welcomed but all entries must be written in English.\n As a condition of submitting, the author must hold the copyright of the entry. If the entry is successful Unbound Press will have one time publicatiopn rights. Copyright remains with the author.\n Entries will be judged anonymously and all decisions are final.\n\nHow to Enter\n\n You have two options: Online and Postal\n\nOnline Entry\n\n You may submit your entry(ies) via email and pay the entry fee(s) online via PayPal. You do NOT need a PayPal account to use this option. Click the appropriate button below and you’ll be re-directed to a secure PayPal shopping cart. Please notice that you have the option to pay online in GBP (£), EURO (€) and USD ($). If you wish to enter more than one submission you will be given the opportunity to change the quantity on the PayPal shopping cart.\n If you do not wish to pay online you may still submit your entry via email and send a cheque via the post. We can only accept cheques for GBP £ from a UK bank. Please make cheques payable to ‘Unbound Press’ and post to: Unbound Press, PO Box 16864, Glasgow, Scotland G11 9DJ.\n\n Once you have a receipt/transaction number submit your entry via email to: unboundpress@gmail.com\n Be sure to cut and paste your PayPal receipt/transaction number into the body of the email (or let me know that payment has been sent via post)\n State the competition category in the subject line of your email\n In the body of the email please include the following:\n\n Name\n Postal Address\n Title of Entry and Word Count\n PayPal Receipt/Transaction Number\n\n Don’t forget to attach your story! Atachments must be in the form of a Word(doc) or Rich Text Format (rtf). It would also help if the document name is the title of your story.\n\nPostal Entry\n\n Entries submitted via post should be printed on standard-size paper and double-spaced. Please adhere to common formatting (such as 12pt font, Times New Roman – or similar standard font – double-spaced). We do not reject entries based on varied formatting but we do appreciate standard style.\n Entries sent via email will not be returned. Please do not send your only copy.\n If you do not have an email address or you wish to receive hard-copy confirmation that we received your entry, please include a SASE or postcard.\n Postal submissions should be accompanied by a cheque from a UK bank made out to ‘Unbound Press’. We can only accept cheques in GBP (£).\n Postal submissions should be accompanied by a coversheet stating the following:\n\n Name\n Postal Address\n Title of Entry and Word Count\n Email address (if available)\n\n If you are more comfortable using a Competition Entry Form, please feel free to click the button below, print and submit with your postal entry.\n\nhttp://unboundpress.files.wordpress.c ... ompetition-entry-form.pdf\n\nAnnouncement of Winners\nWinners and runners-up will be notified by email after the closing date and results posted on the Unbound Press website.\n\nhttp://unboundpress.com/\nhttp://unboundpress.com/competitions/ ... d-press-nonfiction-award/ SUMMARY:Unbound Press Nonfiction Award PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR