Crawdaddy! Holds Rock Critic Contest
Categories: Contests, Criticism, Writing
Enter a contest to win a spot on the Crawdaddy! list of contributors and $500 by submitting two articles based on given assignments by a deadline of November 3rd. (thx BF)
Enter a contest to win a spot on the Crawdaddy! list of contributors and $500 by submitting two articles based on given assignments by a deadline of November 3rd. (thx BF)
“Give us your best shot and be eligible to win a digital camera, $1000 cash, a new iMac, and much more.”
“This year, there were 1,371 entries judged by a talented team of newspaper editors, syndicate representatives and faculty at the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill School of Journalism.”
“This is the 12th year of the annual awards contest, which recognizes the best work from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ 125 member papers.”
“As many as 30 contestants will receive a free LG camera phone, and the opportunity to cover the summer’s best concerts, posting photos and reviews to a personalized blog featured on billboard.com.”
Let’s see some music photographers win this one! Lots of categories to choose from; and prizes include some Nikon Digital SLRs and exposure in the magazine itself.
“For round 1, that meant choosing 10 out of 491 photographs. In other words, for every 50 photos, I can only choose one. Words can’t describe quite how difficult that is: A lot of talent and creativity goes into competition entries, and a lot can be said about.”
“Within a few years Visconti was present at the birth of glam rock, working with T.Rex and the then-unknown David Bowie; he was also creating studio secrets of his own.” [via Barbara Flaska]
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Kind of a mysterious contest, but it is about music writing. “Fans have been invited to compose haikus, with the best winning an unknown prize.”
“Compete with the very best in still and television photojournalism, in picture editing, and Web editing. Now in its sixth year, the Best of Photojournalism (BOP) is the world’s leading digital photojournalism contest. BOP is a project of the National Press Photographers Association.”
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