Competition: Planet of Death Travel writing competition
Run By: Planet of Death
Genre: Travel Wrting blog
Prize: $1500
Deadline: 31st August 2010
Planet of Death is the planet of the future and the planet of the past. The Planet of Today is a homogenized, over packaged, seat-belted world with no risks, no fun, and no reason to be alive. On Planet of Today, nanny knows best. In order to experience life we have to get off the sofa; switch off the games console; take risks; do stupid, dangerous and probably illegal things. If you want to live, you must be prepared to die.
If you have a life worth living, if you want others to share in the fun and the horror, submit an entry to Planet of Death. Tell your story; get published, win some money and perhaps even bring about the life or death of a fresh-faced fool from Milwaukee.
Planet of Death will become the number one destination on the net for those travelers who would rather eat monkey brains than banana pancakes, who prefer Ayahuasca to Diet Coke and think dolphins are arrogant assholes.
Are you a blogger? A diarist? Do you write great emails? If you have a talent for finding danger and decadence then writing about it, Planet of Death may turn your talent into 'wealth' and er… notoriety?
A recent competition organized by the British Guild of Travel Writers offered the following advice:
- The Guild has supported excellence in travel writing for half a century now and we want to celebrate our special year by championing new travel writing talent. The winning entry will be a beautifully written piece that is a celebration of a world destination, be it an exotic location or one closer to home.
So the winning entry will be a piece of tedious schlock written by a kindhearted orangutan patter; enjoyed only by ancient couples in matching fleeces who have never left New Jersey.
Not so Planet of Death: the winning entry of Planet of Death will be a nightmarish tale of stabbings, drug dealing and bodies dumped in sugar cane fields in Burma, or the night you ran naked through the streets of Lisbon pursued by the police. More focused on truth than beauty, we offer more, bigger, better prizes than the august guild above, but no gala luncheon.
Further details here.
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