Food Writing Competition

The Rambling Epicure is seeking food-related fiction and non-fiction writing entries for our First Annual Food Writing Competition. Winners will be published on The Rambling Epicure and qualify to go on to compete for inclusion in our first annual Food Writers to Keep an Eye On 2014 eBook in November 2014.

Entries should be a maximum of 500 words, and can cover any food-related subject and any travel writing inspired by food. This covers the full spectrum of food and travel writing: memoirs, short stories, reviews, poems, travelogues, essays, guidebooks, lifestyle, adventure, destination features, history, anthropology, etc.

Submissions should demonstrate a passion for food and convey a strong desire to summon up its wonders so as to transport others. It should inform and solicit readers to ask deeper questions about themselves and the world. It should be well crafted; demonstrate animated descriptive skills; have a clear voice and solid structure; and be from a well-defined point of view.

Submissions should be print-ready, in Word format.

Winners will receive:

1st prize 6 hours of free writing instruction
2nd prize 3 hours of free writing instruction
3rd prize 1 ½ hrs of free writing instruction

Competitions

Published by Monday, July 28, 2014 Permalink 0

Food Writing Competitions

We have a keen interest in identifying the food writers of the future. Are you one of them?

Many are in graduate programs in Food Studies now. Or they are students in other, less obviously related fields. With the rapidly changing foodscape, they will take on undreamt of challenges. In fact, they have already begun to do so.

Because concision is not only our favorite word, but a guiding principle we hew to and teach, we sponsor a competition four times yearly, for student food writers who have up to 500 words to show us.

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