[BHS etree] MISC: Travel Writing Contest Info

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PLEASE DO NOT REPLY to the etree, contact Bob Ecker, Bay Area Travel
Writers High School Contest Coordinator, at (707) 421-1701
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BAY AREA TRAVEL WRITERS HOLDS 3rd ANNUAL TRAVEL WRITING CONTEST FOR
ALL BAY AREA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS October 1 - October 31, 2007
 
San Francisco: September 13, 2007.  The Bay Area Travel Writers
(BATW), a twenty-year-old professional organization of travel writers
and photographers, announces its third annual travel writing contest
for all Bay Area high school students. No entry fee is required.
 
Students wishing to enter should submit a 500-word essay concerning a
travel destination, experience or activity.  Travel essays deal with
the idea and experience of travel - whether the writer has traveled to
the other side of the world, down the block or anywhere in between.  
 
All essays will be evaluated by BATW judges (professional travel
writers).
Essays will be judged on accuracy, originality, creativity, proper use
of language, syntax and grammar, and humor.
 
3 Prizes will be awarded:
 
$ 200.00 First Prize + Official Awards Certificate 
$ 100.00 Second Prize + Official Awards Certificate 
$  50.00 Third Prize + Official Awards Certificate
 
Honorable Mentions will also be awarded
 
Rules of Entry:
 
* Only current high school students are permitted to enter. 
* One entry per person. 
* Essays must be 500 words (or less) in length.  Entries exceeding the
500 word limit will be disqualified. 
* Stories must be double-spaced, with the author's full name, address,
telephone number and email address at the top of the page.  Also
include your school's name, location and the name of your
English/Journalism teacher. 
* Please include an affidavit at the end of the story attesting that
the work has been created solely by the entrant. 
* Entries will be accepted by e-mail only, beginning October 1, 2007.
All entries must be e-mailed by October 31, 2007 to: contest at batw.org

All Bay Area high school students are eligible to participate,
including those attending public, private and/or parochial high
schools.  Home schooled high school age students are also welcome to
submit.  The "Bay Area" refers to the counties of: Alameda, Contra
Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and
Sonoma.

Contest winners will be notified by telephone no later than December
15, 2007.  Contest winners will be invited to receive their awards,
and to read their essays in person, at a future BATW monthly meeting.
Winning entries will also be posted on the BATW Website.
 
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The Bay Area Travel Writers (BATW), based in San Francisco, is a
non-profit, professional organization of travel writers, editors and
photographers with outstanding achievements in travel journalism.
These professionals share their unique stories in newspapers,
magazines, books, websites and other worldwide travel publications.
 
For further information contact: 
Bob Ecker, BATW High School Contest Coordinator, at (707) 421-1701
eckerbob at mindspring.com
 
Bay Area Travel Writers
P.O. Box 460222
San Francisco, CA 94146
(415) 267-6176
www.batw.org