Eat Drink Blog 4 Writing Competition 2013 – Terms and Conditions

For the Eat Drink Blog 4 writing competition this year, entrants can submit an original piece of published blog writing that must no more than 1000 words on any food related subject. It could be on a food traveling experience, a restaurant review, the headnote for a recipe, a story or article on an aspect of food that interests, excites or frustrates you.

Note: If the entry features a recipe, the story supporting the recipe will be judged, not the recipe itself so the ingredients and methodology are not included in the word count.

Entries for the competition will be based on blog posts published within the last six (6) months, up to and including the closing date, between 7 April 2013 – 7 October 2013.

This competition is open to ALL Australian food and drink bloggers, not just conference delegates.

Entries must be submitted by 20.00 (ACST) on Monday 7th October 2013

To enter, simply send an email to [email protected] with:

1. Your full name
2. Your email address
3. Name of your blog and website address
4. Social media ID
5. A URL of the post you’re entering, plus a PDF attachment of the blog post text only (no images).

PRIZES

First Prize

• Entry published in SBS Feast magazine
• $200 voucher from Grand Cucina
• Luxe Business cards from Moo

Second Prize

• Booktopia pre-selected cookbook prize pack RRP $600
• Cookut Cocotte valued at $179.95 from Grand Cucina
• Postcard and sticker bundle from Moo

Third Prize

• Booktopia pre-selected cookbook prize pack RRP $400
• Cookut frypan 24cm valued at $102.95 from Grand Cucina
• Stickerbook from Moo

JUDGING PANEL

Alix Clark

Alix began her career in magazines while at university studying Architecture. While the built environment had a certain appeal, she was lured away by the rustle of words, pictures and paper and soon took up at role at Time Inc’s then-fledgling weekly, Who magazine. During her time as a writer at Who, Alix spent 18 months in the Los Angeles bureau where she interviewed everyone from Kermit the Frog, to David Duchovny and Anna Nicole Smith. Her taste for celebrity (but not Mexican food) sated, Alix then worked as a freelance writer and editorial consultant for three years for magazines and clients including Australian Style, Home Beautiful, the Australian Financial Review magazine, Good Health and Uncle Toby’s before joining the custom division of Pacific Magazines in late 2000.

Since then Alix has worked across almost all the company’s clients and has been instrumental in retaining and acquiring clients including Virgin Australia, Weight Watchers, Lexus and Nestle. As Editorial Director she was responsible for overseeing editors and designers working on all Sydney-based titles.

Alix was the founding editor of SBS Feast magazine, the monthly newsstand magazine that was launched in 2011 and which celebrates the incredible breadth of food and culture that we are lucky enough to have here in Australia. Feast delivers for the stories behind the food and offers readers the chance to find out more about ingredients, recipes, cultures and traditions.

In addition to her professional roles, Alix has also studied magazine publishing at the Radcliffe Publishing Course at Harvard, and the Stanford Professional Publishing Course.

Jane Cornes

Jane Cornes is one of WA’s most respected food writers and editors.

For over a decade, Jane was WA State Editor for Gourmet Traveller Magazine.

More recently, she spent 18 months as contributing food and wine editor for Scoop magazine.

Jane has been the restaurant critic for Post Newspapers for more than five years, writing under the byline  “Madame Lush”. She continues to be a regular contributor to Gourmet Traveller magazine’s annual restaurant guide.

She is a regular contributor to local ABC radio, teaches at writing workshops and is writing her first cookbook, “Good food for bad people”.

Jane lives in Woodbridge, WA. In her spare time she diets.

Renee Bergere
Renee Bergere is the Deputy Editor of  Scoop, WA’s leading independently published lifestyle magazine.

Renee’s love of travel, food and words began in Italy in 2005. It was during a three-year food bender in Rome that she had two life-changing epiphanies. One, she had become a hopeless, hedonistic gypsy. Two, there were actually jobs out there willing to reward that lifestyle. So off she headed to Australia – Italian husband in tow to do a Masters in Publishing from the University of Melbourne before moving to Perth four years ago.

At Scoop, Renee writes about food, restaurants and bars and considers herself lucky to be doing it during a time that many have dubbed Perth’s gastronomic renaissance. In addition to her work with Scoop Publishing, Renee has written for Lonely Planet, Gourmet Traveller.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

About Your Blog

• You are an Australian food and/or drink blogger, that is, either a food and/or drink blogger living in Australia or an Australian food blogger living abroad.
• Your blog must be at least twelve (12) months old.
• You must have published a minimum of 25 posts.
• You are not a commercial blogger i.e. those blogging only for money or as part of their job, for example, a chef blogging for a restaurant or staff blogging for a brand.

About Your Writing

• Each entrant will be permitted only ONE entry.
• The entry post must be from a blog post which has been published in the last 6 months leading up to the closing date of the competition (between 7 April 2013 – 7 October 2013).
• The entry post must be an original entry for your blog, ie: not written for an online publication, newspaper or magazine.
• The entries must no more than 1000 words (recipe ingredients and methodology are not included in the word count).
• Original posts may be edited for length and clarity so the entry is understandable without the original photographs.
• All entries must be submitted via email to: [email protected] with the full name of the author, name of the blog and website address, email address, social media ID, a link to blog post and attach a PDF copy of the text only, no images.
• It is the entrants’ responsibility to inform Eat Drink Blog if their email address changes during the Competition Period.
• All entries will be decided anonymously and will be judged upon originality, a distinctive personal voice, clarity of expression, the degree to which it engages the attention of the reader and relevant knowledge of subject matter.

 Competition and Usage

• Any submissions that don’t meet the above criteria will not be included for consideration by the judges.
• By submitting your writing to the competition, whilst you retain copyright of the writing, you give the current and future organisers of Eat Drink Blog and their assigns a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute them.
• As well as the above rights of use, if you are a winner of one of the competition prizes, you also give permission for SBS Feast, Booktopia, Grand Cucina and MOO and their assigns to use the details of your winning submissions in media releases regarding the Eat Drink Blog 2013 writing competition.
• Any decision made by the Eat Drink Blog organizing committee, such as valid entrants or entries, and the decision by the judging panel regarding the winner of the competition, are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• The Eat Drink Blog 4 organising committee members and the Sponsors (and their employees) associated with this Competition are not eligible to enter.