September 2007
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If you live in Saskatchewan or have recently visited … here is a great, Free photo contest for you to enter.
Enter the best photos you have of Saskatchewan. CAPTURE THE WONDERS OF SASKATCHEWAN! There are 6 categories 1. SASKATCHEWAN PEOPLE. 2. NATURE IN SASKATCHEWAN. 3. PRAIRIE SCENIC. 4. WOODS AND WATER. 5. MY SASKATCHEWAN VACATION. 6. TOWNS AND CITIESPrizes:
Five award of merit winners in each category will also receive Tourism Saskatchewan’s “Land of Living Skies” calendar.
Each category winner will receive a $500.00 gift certificate for Don’s Photo.
The Grand Prize Winner, selected as the best of the six category winners, will receive a $500.00 gift certificate for Don’s Photo, in addition to 1st prize($500 gift certificate)in one of the categories.
Eligibility: USA & Canada (excluding Quebec)
Deadline: October 5, 2007
Enter your photos here
Written by guru on September 30th, 2007 with no comments.
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This is a fun contest … all you have to do is vote for your favorite and win some of the great prizes.
Vote for America’s Steamiest Chef and enter for a chance to win a dinner with the winner! Five celebrity chefs are competing in Glad’s Steamiest Chef Contest, and they need your votes to win. As if winning all that isn’t enough, you’re also helping out five charities! $30,000 will be donated to a charity of the winner’s choice, and $5,000 will be donated to the other four charities.
What you’ll win:
The grand prize is a trip for two to meet the Steamiest Chef and receive $500 spending cash, first prize is a VIP trip for two to Miami, Florida with a private cooking class, and five second prize winners will receive twelve 10-count packages of GLAD SimplyCooking Microwave Steaming Bags.
Eligibility: USA 18+
Deadline: October 17, 2007
Go here to vote for your favorite “steamy” chef!
Written by guru on September 29th, 2007 with no comments.
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If you love the outdoors and have great photos to share with the world, then be sure to enter Colman’s photo contest.
Prizes:
10 prize packages consisting of Coleman’s products. The Grand Prise is a package consisting of: One Weathermaster Elite Tent
Four 4lb DiamondbackTM Sleeping Bag
Two Double QuickBed
One DC 12V Inflate-All Pump
One 47L (50 qt.) Ultimate Cooler
One PerfectFlowTM InstaStartTM
Grill Stove
One Luminos Lantern LED
One Camping Coffee Maker
One Optio W30 7.1 mp digital camera
Eligibility: Legal resident of Canada, 18+
Deadline: September 30, 2007
Enter your photos here
Written by guru on September 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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This is a fun and interesting twist on the usual recipe contest. I love it … spent hours at the website looking at what people had done. Some nice recipes and some great videos!
All you need to do is to upload a video of one of your cooking recipes on cookshow.com . The good news is that you can put several videos online to increase your chance of success!
Prizes: * 1st prize: a gift certificate worth $500, which allows you to invite the person of your choice to one of the 330 hotels in the Small Luxury Hotels of the World chain. The prize does not include the transport costs to the hotel.
* 2nd prize: a dinner for 2 in the restaurant of your choice, with a maximum of $200 per person. The prize does not include the transport costs to the restaurant.
* 3rd prize: a digital camcorder.
* 4th, 5th and 6th prize: a digital camera.
* 7th to 40th prize: a kitchen whisk with the Cookshow logo.
* 41st to 100th prize: an apron.
Eligibility: International, 18+ In either English or French. There are two sets of prizes, one set for each language.
Deadline: December 2, 2007
Click here to enter your video and recipe … or to check out the existing entries.
Written by guru on September 26th, 2007 with no comments.
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If you’ve always wanted to write for teens, here is a great contest to get you started.
MIDDLE-GRADE ADVENTURE
br /> Entry period is August 1 to October 31, 2007. Winners are announced in the March, 2008 issue of Children’s Writer. Prize structure is $500 for first place plus publication in Children’s Writer, $250 for 2nd place, and $100 for 3rd, 4th, and 5th places.
The contest is for a story about an adventure, small or large, to 1,200 words, for ages 8 to 12. The adventure may take place in another genre, such as historical fiction, or fantasy, or may be contemporary. The antagonist or conflict may stem from other characters, from internal goals, from nature, society, or technology, but the story should balance plot and characterization. Stories will also be judged on age-targeting, originality, style, and the overall quality of writing. Publishability is the ultimate criterion.
Deadline: October 31, 2007
Eligibility: International
http://www.childrenswriter.com/
Written by guru on September 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Writing a spec TV script takes time … so I’m giving you plenty of advanced notice about the Nickelodeon Writing competition. This is a great opportunity for aspiring scriptwriters. If you are chosen for a fellowship you will learn with the best in the industry and get first hand experience working in a highly creative environment.
This is one of the few scriptwriting contests I’ve seen that has NO Entry Fee. As in FREE!
Winners will get Salaried Writing Fellowships in live action and animation television.
Nickelodeon is offering writing fellowships in live action and animated television to culturally and ethnically diverse, new writers. Participants will have hands-on experience writing spec scripts and pitching story ideas.
The program, developed to broaden Nickelodeon’s outreach efforts, provides a salaried position for up to one year.
The next submission period runs from January 2 – February 28, 2008.
If you want to see the type of programs produced by Nickelodeon check out their programing schedule at http://www.nick.com
Eligibility: USA residents, 18+
Deadline: Feb 28, 2008
Check here for more information.
Written by guru on September 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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The deadline is fast approaching for one of Canada’s best writing contests. There are loads of prizes and lots of great exposure for the winners.
This year there are three categories: short story, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
The CBC Literary Awards competition is the only literary competition that celebrates original, unpublished works, in Canada’s two official languages. There are three categories: short story, poetry, and creative nonfiction, and $60,000 of prize money courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts. In addition, winning entries are published in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and visibility is offered to the winners and their winning entries by CBC.
Creative nonfiction includes humour writing, memoir, biography, essay (including personal essay), travel writing and feature articles.
Deadline: November 1, 2007
Eligibility: Canadian Resident
Languages: English and French
ENTER YOUR POEMS, SHORT STORIES OR CREATIVE NONFICTION HERE
Written by guru on September 14th, 2007 with no comments.
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The theme of this contest is Giving Thanks For Your Blessings.
What you need to do: Write a short essay.
The winner will receive a sapphire necklace and earrings from Louvee Fine Jewelry (louvee.com), as well as products from June Jacobs Spa Collection (junejacobs.com). Total average retail value: $3,481. Nine runners-up will win products from June Jacobs Spa Collection. Average retail value: $206. Total average retail value for all prizes awarded: $5,335.
Eligibility: USA & Canada
Deadline: Sept 10, 2007
Enter Here
Written by guru on September 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Here’s a great contest for those who love to collect or who have just too too much of a good (or bad) thing. I bet you never thought you could win a cool $20,000 for your obsessiveness!
Almost everyone has one… You may have it packed away in a secret place for no one else to see or perhaps you proudly showcase it… Maybe, just maybe, your collection has become a… “POSSESSION OBSESSION”!
Is your pig collection turning your bedroom into a barnyard?
Running out of room for all of your shoes?
Has your rubber ducky collection taken over your bathroom?
Are your action figures invading your kitchen?
Pull out a video camera and show Apartments.com how your Possession Obsession has consumed your life, and your apartment, and you could walk away with the $20,000 grand prize!
Prizes: One (1) Grand Prize of a check in the amount of $20,000 will be awarded to the verified Grand Prize Winner (as defined below). A Runner-Up Prize of a check in the amount of $500 will be awarded to each of the two (2) Runner-Up Prize Winners (as defined below). Total value of all prizes is $21,000.
Eligibility: USA, 18+
Deadline: September 10, 2007
Enter your video here.
Written by guru on September 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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Love Those Lemons Recipe Contest
If you have a great recipe featuring lemons, this is the contest for you!
What’s needed:
Vibrant and tangy, lemons effortlessly add zest to a wide variety of foods. Our next national recipe contest is Lemon Lovers…and we anticipate it being a popular one! Our judges are puckered up and ready to sample the diverse ways you cook and bake with this zippy, refreshing fruit.
Do you have a fresh, new twist for an appetizer? Is there a traditional lemony dessert you’re always asked to bring to potlucks and other gatherings?
Can you think of a terrific main dish or side dish that calls for freshly grated lemon peel, lemon zest or lemon juice?
We hope you’ll spark our attention with favorites like lip-smacking lemon bars, citrus-baked Cornish hens, refreshing dressings and luscious breakfast foods such as lemon blueberry pancakes. And check your recipe files for snacks, salads, soups and other baked goods that showcase lemon.
The prizes:
The Grand Prize winner will receive $500.00 in cash.
Second place wins dinner for four at the restaurant of the winner’s choice.
Ten runners-up will receive a free copy of our Contest Winning Annual Recipes 2007 cookbook.
Plus, one of our winners may be selected to appear on national television with Taste of Home Editor in Chief Catherine Cassidy. The Early Show on CBS gives viewers a “taste of home†by spotlighting some of the delicious prize-winners in our national recipe contests.
Eligibility: USA & Canada
Deadline: September 15, 2007
ENTER YOUR RECIPE HERE
Be sure to check out the Cooking Contests Database for more cooking and recipe contests
Written by guru on September 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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